Going out, flirting, sleeping, when you’re almost octogenarian… Improbable?
No, according to a legend who knows about it, it’s a question of “rock n roll” life, because she is one of the myths of this way of life: Deborah Harry, better known under the colloquial name of Debbie Harry, leader from the group Blondie. So iconic that for many, “Blondie” is practically her nickname. Well, Florida’s coolest singer defends the right to a very active love life as a woman in her 70s. No offense to those for whom the subject is a big taboo.
In an interview with the Times, Debbie explains that despite the vagaries of life she remains more than ever “curious“to date someone at 79. Even though she doesn’t seem to be a big fan of dating apps.”But I like the chemistry between people“, argues the haunting voice of Heart of Glass.
And age, for her, excludes no one from this “alchemy”… She also has a good spicy anecdote on this subject.
“He was a really sexy guy”: Debbie Harry still “curious”
Still from the Times, the patina blond emblem of “Atomic” unleashes a slight funfact which demonstrates its perseverance in the world of dating. With a lot of humor of course. A derision familiar to fans of the Videodrome actress.
Harry actually explains that he recently met a man.really sexy“… At the corner of a section of the Home Depot store, an American-style Bricorama.”He worked in the gardening department. But he was busy“, she laughs, a sentence that we imagine accompanied by a smile. Behind the humor, however, lies a real subject.
“I’m definitely not as adventurous as I used to be, but I’m still curious… And I love the way the world turns today“, admits the singer of Call Me. “Adventurous”, while society seems to invisibilize if not exclude women from an active sentimental and sexual life from menopause. The unthought is even absolute. Ageist prejudices are going well on this.
Actresses are fighting against it. Like the indescribable Emma Thompson, in this sulphurous film. The star’s desire, through some of her performances, is to bring to the image what is too rarely depicted: female pleasure, past the age of forty.
In our pages, the philosopher Camille Froidevaux-Metterie explains to us that from menopausal women, we readily withdraw, in our patriarchal society, the status of “desired” woman and in passing that of “desiring woman”. They would therefore no longer be “subjects of desire”, observes the author of Le Corps des femmes. Well, that’s what’s being said.
“From the moment women cross the “fatal” milestone of menopause, they leave the group of procreative women and they therefore lose what has always been considered their main social function. They disappear as subjects”
Obviously, says the scholar, our representations are biased, and this is deeply felt even on our screens, where gender stereotypes spare nothing and no one. Although recently, the negatively proclaimed “cougars” are taking their long-awaited revenge.
