Published June 3, 2025
quotes Hollen Reischer in an article about the mid-life crisis looming for older millennials. “The thing about those stereotypes is that they’re not actually very common. People don’t actually abandon their spouses and buy red sports cars because of a midlife crisis,” said Reischer. Midlife crisis stereotypes like that guy or, as Reischer points out, the fear-mongering myth of the menopausal woman condemned to a life waving off hot flashes in front of her fridge allow us to project and obliquely explore our fears of getting older. Those include fears about how we’re perceived and what we might lose along with our youth: beauty, value, potential, health.
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