When it comes to age and youth, body image takes a beating at both ends. Can we find a gentler way through the years?
In today’s show, Brooke and Ben discuss the duality of wrinkles & pimples — i.e. the visible elements of youth and aging — and how they are literally in the middle of it right now, with both wrinkles and pimples (and grey hair and stiff backs in the morning).
They discuss:
- changing body image in their mid-40s
- why gender-affirming care (including hair removal, plastic surgery, make-up and hormone therapy) should be accessible to everyone
- the changing role of body image for boys and men over the past decade
- what our faces and bodies are actually for
- the billionaires who want to live forever and go to great lengths to avoid aging
Thanks for listening!
Links:
Credits:
- the tortoise & the hare is a McAlary Media production.
- Produced and hosted by Brooke McAlary and Ben McAlary
- Edited by Ben McAlary
- Studio equipment supplied by shot.studio
- Theme music is Edgar Allan Poe by Modern Aquatic
Join The Tortoise Community: https://brookemcalary.substack.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
