An excerpt from some footnotes in my archives: Mind you, as one ages she is portrayed as having deteriorating rationality. What’s more, elderly people are often stereotyped as emotionally rigid, cranky, and prone to ‘irrational’ behaviours. Hence crones (witches) and curmudgeons. But then there are also the sweet-old-lady stereotypes, those ever-pleasant grandmothers bereft of emotional Continue reading