Advise for this journalist of women's rights... Stop shaming women.

If this isn't the most confusing article I've ever had the misfortune to read then I don't know. I don't get it. She complains about the history of strong women getting unjustly shamed and then proceeds to shame Kidman for getting strong.

And she uses ageism to do that shaming, somehow thinking that the fact that a 55yo woman has rightly decided that a) getting strong is the most important physical attribute that a older person can possess for quality of life, and b) getting strong to compete in her very competitive industry: movie-making, just the same as the women like Biles, Williams did in their industry for which the author selectively calls those women 'victims', is somehow demeaning. 

Demeaning to who? Well, after unfortunately having to read it twice, it seems her point is that it is demeaning to the hard-working women that don't have time to workout 5 times a week, calling it showing-off wealth/class. To hell with the fact that Kidman could use her public visibility to serve as a role-model that older women can be strong.

It's the same backlash of criticism from women that Billie Eilish got for making the grievous mistake of wearing baggy clothes when performing and thus angering the body-positive advocates. Cannibalism at it's worst.

And laughingly, she writes "an obsession with what has been lost", as though Kidman should be happy, at her age, sitting in a chair knitting. And her evidence to support this is to reference another actress Judi Dench, aged 87, who isn't 'obsessive' about strength and looks great for her age. Ok. So what?

And this is an author who has made a career writing about the rights of women. It is clear she has no interest in the rights of women to be who they are, if they mistakenly do not conform/abide to her own image. I thought this attitude is what these journalists supporting women's rights are fighting against. How hypocritical. I imagine the author seething over photos of 50+ actresses who have maintained their beauty.

I have some advise for this author of women's rights. Stop shaming women.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/28/fab-abs-nicole-kidman-frantic-effort-to-look-half-your-age-demeaning