{"id":31,"date":"2017-01-26T21:17:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-03-06T07:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:23:51","slug":"margaret-gullette","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/voicesviews\/blog\/margaret-gullette\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Morganroth Gullette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-109x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" data-id=\"7994\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-109x150.png 109w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-217x300.png 217w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-741x1024.png 741w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-768x1061.png 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-100x138.png 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-150x207.png 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-200x276.png 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-300x414.png 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-450x622.png 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-600x829.png 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-900x1243.png 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised-108x149.png 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gullette-author-photo-revised.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret Morganroth Gullette is the author, most recently, of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Eldercide: How it Happened, How to Prevent It <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2024)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her earlier book,&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ending Ageism, or <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Not to Shoot Old People <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2017)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">won both&nbsp;the&nbsp;MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA\u2019s&nbsp;Florence Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and Aging.&nbsp;Gullette\u2019s previous books\u2014<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agewise <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2011)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Declining to Decline <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1997)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also won awards. Her essays are often cited as \u201cnotable\u201d in&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best American Essays.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;She is a Resident Scholar at the Women\u2019s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/12\/still-marching-after-all-these-years\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-300x174.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-150x87.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-100x58.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-200x116.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-450x260.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-600x347.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1-108x62.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ProtestJackieCheryl-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/12\/still-marching-after-all-these-years\/\">Still Marching, After All These Years<\/a> <span class=\"date\">December 16, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Amid America\u2019s turmoil and woe, I like to think of my mother and father. I am 84. My mother died in 2010 and my father in 1974. Though they are long gone, I hear what they might say and know<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/12\/still-marching-after-all-these-years\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Marching, After All These Years<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/10\/what-sophocles-last-play-teaches-us-about-honoring-our-dead-who-have-been-wronged-where-is-their-sacred-grove\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-300x211.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-1024x722.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-768x541.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-2048x1443.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-100x70.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-200x141.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-450x317.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-600x423.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-900x634.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/green-trees-sunshine-forest-1-108x76.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/10\/what-sophocles-last-play-teaches-us-about-honoring-our-dead-who-have-been-wronged-where-is-their-sacred-grove\/\">Sophocles\u2019 Play Teaches Us about Honoring Our Dead Who Have Been Wronged<\/a> <span class=\"date\">October 24, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The residents of nursing facilities in the United States died in disproportionate numbers from COVID, when they should have been protected by the Trump administration\u2019s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the 50 states\u2019 departments of health, and the owners and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/10\/what-sophocles-last-play-teaches-us-about-honoring-our-dead-who-have-been-wronged-where-is-their-sacred-grove\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sophocles\u2019 Play Teaches Us about Honoring Our Dead Who Have Been Wronged<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/03\/on-the-unsung-pleasures-of-very-long-friendships\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-241x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-120x150.jpg 120w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-100x125.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-150x187.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-200x249.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-300x374.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-450x560.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed-108x134.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marsha-Fixed.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/03\/on-the-unsung-pleasures-of-very-long-friendships\/\">On the Unsung Pleasures of Very Long Friendships<\/a> <span class=\"date\">March 7, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">I made my first real friend when I was 11 and she was 12. Marsha moved in on the block. Soon after, her mother saw my mother in the backyard and said she had a daughter about my age. My<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/03\/on-the-unsung-pleasures-of-very-long-friendships\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Unsung Pleasures of Very Long Friendships<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2023\/05\/everyone-in-a-nursing-home-deserves-a-single-room\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1-108x108.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Resident-Room-Single-400x400-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2023\/05\/everyone-in-a-nursing-home-deserves-a-single-room\/\">Everyone in a Nursing Home Deserves a Single Room<\/a> <span class=\"date\">May 19, 2023<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">This hard-hitting essay was first published on March 15, 2023, in&nbsp;the Boston Globe. It\u2019s re-posted here with the author\u2019s permission.&nbsp; This concerns all of us. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many residents of nursing facilities died<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2023\/05\/everyone-in-a-nursing-home-deserves-a-single-room\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everyone in a Nursing Home Deserves a Single Room<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2022\/01\/more-risk-more-life-more-responsibility\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-100x67.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-900x600.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz-108x72.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/covid_iStock-1226913768-rsz.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2022\/01\/more-risk-more-life-more-responsibility\/\">More Risk? More life? More Responsibility<\/a> <span class=\"date\">January 25, 2022<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Joy! Our first live theater event in almost two years, last week. With the booster and masked, my husband and I delightedly saw a one-woman show set in the 1960s, Queens Girl in the World, in which Jasmine Rush skillfully<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2022\/01\/more-risk-more-life-more-responsibility\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Risk? More life? More Responsibility<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/02\/why-biden-won-the-missing-reason\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204-108x108.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/shutterstock_1851739204.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/02\/why-biden-won-the-missing-reason\/\">Why Biden Won: The Missing Reason<\/a> <span class=\"date\">February 19, 2021<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2020 presidential election took place at arguably the most anxious time in the nation\u2019s history, at least as threatening as the Civil War, the flu epidemic of 1918\u20131919, or the distant world wars.<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/02\/why-biden-won-the-missing-reason\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Biden Won: The Missing Reason<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/01\/how-old-would-you-want-to-be-in-heaven\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gettyimages-108317077_web_crop.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gettyimages-108317077_web_crop.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gettyimages-108317077_web_crop-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gettyimages-108317077_web_crop-100x67.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gettyimages-108317077_web_crop-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gettyimages-108317077_web_crop-108x72.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/01\/how-old-would-you-want-to-be-in-heaven\/\">How Old Would You Want to Be in\u00a0Heaven?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">January 8, 2021<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many religious faiths propose different versions of heaven as a location: there are walled gardens&nbsp;with streams, flowers, pleasing scents,&nbsp;pretty angels, rapturous music or delicious, accessible food.<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/01\/how-old-would-you-want-to-be-in-heaven\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Old Would You Want to Be in\u00a0Heaven?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/10\/being-old-is-not-a-death-sentence-even-now\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-300x194.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-1024x662.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-150x97.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-768x497.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-100x65.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-200x129.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-450x291.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-600x388.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-900x582.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead-108x70.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-is-not-dead.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/10\/being-old-is-not-a-death-sentence-even-now\/\">Being Old Is Not a Death Sentence, Even Now<\/a> <span class=\"date\">October 20, 2020<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contrary to popular opinion, no one living in a nursing home needs to die of COVID-19.<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/10\/being-old-is-not-a-death-sentence-even-now\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being Old Is Not a Death Sentence, Even Now<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/07\/my-fathers-frugal-habits-make-sense-now\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MartyM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MartyM.jpg 171w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MartyM-88x150.jpg 88w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MartyM-100x170.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MartyM-150x254.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MartyM-108x183.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/07\/my-fathers-frugal-habits-make-sense-now\/\">My Father\u2019s Frugal Habits Make Sense Now<\/a> <span class=\"date\">July 24, 2020<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My father had plenty of habits that irritated my mother. But nothing irritated her more than \u201cMarty being cheap.\u201d<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/07\/my-fathers-frugal-habits-make-sense-now\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Father\u2019s Frugal Habits Make Sense Now<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/05\/ageism-and-tragedy-in-a-time-of-triage\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-300x214.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-150x107.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-100x71.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-200x143.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-450x321.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-600x428.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage-108x77.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/web1_thumbnail_ER-Triage.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/05\/ageism-and-tragedy-in-a-time-of-triage\/\">Ageism and Tragedy in a Time of Triage<\/a> <span class=\"date\">May 13, 2020<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Triage means exclusion from treatment. In parts of the United States, triage may become grievously necessary, as pandemic peaks overwhelm resources. <\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/05\/ageism-and-tragedy-in-a-time-of-triage\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ageism and Tragedy in a Time of Triage<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/03\/the-generational-wars-contrived-to-disguise-the-failure-of-the-american-dream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-300x243.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-1024x829.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-150x121.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-768x622.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-1536x1243.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-2048x1658.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-100x81.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-200x162.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-450x364.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-600x486.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-900x729.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CLIMATE-CRISIS-GENERATION-WARS-MDS-JAN02-108x87.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/03\/the-generational-wars-contrived-to-disguise-the-failure-of-the-american-dream\/\">The &#8216;Generational Wars&#8217; Contrived to Disguise the Failure of the American Dream<\/a> <span class=\"date\">March 13, 2020<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a nation grappling with growing inequality, stagnating social mobility, crushing personal debt and crumbling job security, efforts to set America\u2019s generations against one another persist. <\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/03\/the-generational-wars-contrived-to-disguise-the-failure-of-the-american-dream\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8216;Generational Wars&#8217; Contrived to Disguise the Failure of the American Dream<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/01\/grandparenting-in-venice\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-100x67.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-900x600.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vega-Meme-inVenice-108x72.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/01\/grandparenting-in-venice\/\">Grandparenting in Venice<\/a> <span class=\"date\">January 17, 2020<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Venice at the opening of the Biennial international art fair is crowded, gaudy, expensive, magical and, it turned out, very grandchild-friendly.&nbsp; We were there partly to babysit, to help out our daughter-in-law, Yto Barrada (who was invited to exhibit at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2020\/01\/grandparenting-in-venice\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grandparenting in Venice<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/03\/ramping-up-the-problem-that-went-deeper-than-we-knew\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-100x133.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-200x267.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-600x800.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Margaret-landscaping-ramp2-108x144.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/03\/ramping-up-the-problem-that-went-deeper-than-we-knew\/\">Ramping Up: The Problem That Went Deeper Than We Knew<\/a> <span class=\"date\">March 18, 2019<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Last year, it finally became obvious that we needed ramps at our summer cabin on Sawdy Pond. The architectural part was straightforward, but it turned out we needed self-examination and conviction to solve a deeper problem. The acres we own<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/03\/ramping-up-the-problem-that-went-deeper-than-we-knew\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ramping Up: The Problem That Went Deeper Than We Knew<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/06\/the-workplace-needs-metooagainstageism\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-100x133.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-200x267.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-600x800.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Gullette-Blog-Pic_metooAgainstAgeism-108x144.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/06\/the-workplace-needs-metooagainstageism\/\">The Workplace Needs #MeTooAgainstAgeism<\/a> <span class=\"date\">June 7, 2018<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The #MeToo movement is mainly about work situations, and so it should be. Being treated like a skirt\u2014or a headless skirt, depending upon the level of vileness\u2014by a male boss or peer can ruin a workplace...even a life.<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/06\/the-workplace-needs-metooagainstageism\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Workplace Needs #MeTooAgainstAgeism<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/10\/ageist-trolls-on-social-media-and-in-the-new-yorker-too\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-188x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-94x150.jpg 94w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-100x160.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-150x240.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-200x320.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-300x480.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic-108x173.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Agesit-Trolls-Pic.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/10\/ageist-trolls-on-social-media-and-in-the-new-yorker-too\/\">Ageist Trolls on Social Media and in the <i>New Yorker<\/i> Too<\/a> <span class=\"date\">October 4, 2017<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Internet is notorious for commenters who feel grossly entitled to dismiss vulnerable others. This past summer, Harvard University hit hard against racist and sexist speech on Facebook, rescinding admissions to some potential first-year students.<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/10\/ageist-trolls-on-social-media-and-in-the-new-yorker-too\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ageist Trolls on Social Media and in the <i>New Yorker<\/i> Too<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/05\/the-violence-of-ageism\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-300x192.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-100x64.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-200x128.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-450x289.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-600x385.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane-108x69.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plane.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/05\/the-violence-of-ageism\/\">The Violence of Ageism<\/a> <span class=\"date\">May 12, 2017<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">As the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines flight on April 9th (2017) by Chicago police, who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth.<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/05\/the-violence-of-ageism\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Violence of Ageism<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2016\/06\/oh-america-how-obamacare-finished-off-breaking-bad\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-224x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-100x134.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-150x201.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-200x267.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-300x401.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-450x602.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-600x802.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad-108x144.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/breakingbad.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2016\/06\/oh-america-how-obamacare-finished-off-breaking-bad\/\">Oh, America! How Obamacare Finished Off <em>Breaking Bad<\/em><\/a> <span class=\"date\">June 10, 2016<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Any just society must reduce the despair occasioned by dire medical conditions. This was one lesson, oddly, that could be drawn from the TV series, <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>.<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2016\/06\/oh-america-how-obamacare-finished-off-breaking-bad\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, America! How Obamacare Finished Off <em>Breaking Bad<\/em><\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2015\/06\/caitlyn-jenner-the-messages-in-the-image\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-214x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-107x150.jpg 107w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-731x1024.jpg 731w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-100x140.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-150x210.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-200x280.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-300x420.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-450x631.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-600x841.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner-108x151.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jenner.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2015\/06\/caitlyn-jenner-the-messages-in-the-image\/\">Caitlyn Jenner: The Messages in the Image<\/a> <span class=\"date\">June 22, 2015<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">What the commentators fail to say about Caitlyn Jenner is that when she came out as a woman publicly in&nbsp;Vanity Fair recently,&nbsp;she did not come out as an older woman. It\u2019s hard to say whether Caitlyn Jenner or photographer Annie<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2015\/06\/caitlyn-jenner-the-messages-in-the-image\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caitlyn Jenner: The Messages in the Image<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2015\/03\/chastizing-the-old-dolls\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-300x281.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-300x281.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-150x140.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-100x94.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-200x187.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-450x421.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-600x562.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred-108x101.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mildred.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2015\/03\/chastizing-the-old-dolls\/\">Chastizing the Old Dolls<\/a> <span class=\"date\">March 16, 2015<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Poor Roz Chast unburdened herself of her dislike of her mother and her pity for her father by describing their slow decline and dying, and doing it in the most public possible way, in a graphic narrative called <em>Can\u2019t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir<\/em>&nbsp;(2014).<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2015\/03\/chastizing-the-old-dolls\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chastizing the Old Dolls<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2014\/09\/the-love-of-her-life\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-230x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-115x150.jpg 115w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-100x130.jpg 100w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-150x195.jpg 150w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-200x261.jpg 200w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-300x391.jpg 300w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-450x586.jpg 450w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-600x782.jpg 600w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters-108x141.jpg 108w, http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/letters.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2014\/09\/the-love-of-her-life\/\">The Love of Her Life<\/a> <span class=\"date\">September 30, 2014<\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Margaret Morganroth Gullette<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">1 I guard my dear mother\u2019s privacy as if she were still alive, but I have decided to rescue this particular part of her story from her secret archives because there are so few narratives about romance in late life.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2014\/09\/the-love-of-her-life\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Love of Her Life<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div><!-- end of .read-more --><\/span><\/li><\/ul><nav class=\"display-posts-pagination\" role=\"navigation\"><h2 class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navigation<\/h2><div class=\"nav-links\"><span aria-current=\"page\" 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