Happy Wednesday! We are almost to spring break. While you may not hear directly from me, you will hear from some of our desk editors next week. Maybe you can read the Daily while on a beach or your couch or in a cabin.
Today, we have an opinion column arguing that the media can help show aging as a positive. Our video and A&E desk editor took a trip to the Science Museum for their more adult-centered night, and you see how the baseball team performed this past weekend.
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Alexis Letang | Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]
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Women in media hold a powerful role in uplifting women. | Image by Noah Liebl
Opinion: Female aging isn’t negative, and the media can help prove it
by Callie Burch | Columnist | Published March 3, 2026
Generation Z women have a harrowing fear of aging. In all fairness, it’s not exactly their fault. Media targeted at young women tries its best to justify those fears by how it portrays getting old.
Older women in movies and television are often seen as entirely sexless and devoid of the pleasures reserved for their youth, from drinking and going out with friends to enjoying any type of fun in their lives.
University of Minnesota cultural studies and comparative literature professor Maggie Hennefeld said Gen Z women seeing negative representations of aging can have personal ramifications for young women.
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