TueDo List: '80s Parenting + Retired Playground Animals + Comfy Shoes
Plus, in praise of our kids with rich imaginations
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: Hate Gen-X? Whatever; we don’t care. How menopause is different for women of color. Working nights? Your memory might take a hit. “Instead of ‘gendered ageism,’ we can just call it ‘sexism’ because that’s what it is.” Getting fall COVID prep sorted. A debut author at 65.
👀 LOOK: Retired Playground Animals is definitely the name of our new band. Ah-mazing pics of Aretha, Blondie, Cher, Dolly, Stevie and Tina working the studio. At 58, Paulina Porizkova keeps it real and Beyoncé shares her “Flaws and All.” Playing too much with this clever app that turns images into animations.
🎧 LISTEN: Loving the retro fab of Laufey. Miley Cyrus’ new single “Used To Be Young” is so TueNight, honoring who we’ve been and celebrating who we are still becoming. Prince still dropping funk from heaven. A groovy new tune from Death Cab for Cutie.
🤣 LOL: ‘80s parenting vs. Millennial parenting. (It’s a mother-daughter throw down). Pickleball is a “garbage psy-op NFT.”
🛒 ADD TO CART: This video store-scented candle (smells like VHS, carpet and popcorn) + these Blockbuster earrings = a great gift idea (you’re welcome)! Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare: new short stories from Megan Kamalei Kakimoto.
📺 WATCH:
This week: Sit in on funny, fearless, and far-ranging dinner party conversations with Black leaders and influencers in The Conversations Project (Hulu). Catch the 2023 U.S. Open Tennis Championships thru September 10 (ESPN, ESPN+).
Wed: Discover five unique communities where people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives in Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones (Netflix). A killer sloth runs rampant in a sorority house in the totally bonkers Slotherhouse (Theaters).
Fri: Described by New York magazine as a “horny, bloody, lesbian, incel comedy” and starring Ayo Edebiri from The Bear, we’re all-in on Bottoms. (Theaters) Hilary Swank is a journalist searching for her son’s murderer in The Good Mother (Theaters).
STORY: The Mermaid Tail and Other Stories About Being Different
By Aliza Sherman
My 8-year-old daughter asks me if kids teased me at school when I was younger. When I ask her if she is being teased at school, all she will tell me is “sometimes.” Then I wonder: Are her classmates teasing her because of her imagination?
My daughter has a beautiful and vivid fantasy life. The other day, she was waiting for her mermaid tail to grow because she followed all of the rituals she found in a video to turn herself into a mermaid. When the day her mermaid tail was due came and went, she was unfazed…
#GENXAPPROVED: Your Guide to Chic, Non-Boring, Comfortable Shoes for Grown-Ass Women
Look, we’re done with bunion-making, heel-shearing nasties on our beloved feet. (And we know you are too.) So we gathered your advice, and our advice, for shoes that are both chic and truly comfortable. Here are our 12 picks — shoes that are Gen-X Approved and curated by our awesome TueNight community of women over 40 — that strike that perfect balance…
Sure, it’s only Tuesday but… enjoy Labor Day Weekend TueNighters!
