When it comes to age and youth, body image takes a beating at both ends. Can we find a gentler way through the years?

In today’s show, Brooke and Ben discuss the duality of wrinkles & pimples — i.e. the visible elements of youth and aging — and how they are literally in the middle of it right now, with both wrinkles and pimples (and grey hair and stiff backs in the morning).

They discuss:
changing body image in their mid-40s
why gender-affirming care (including hair removal, plastic surgery, make-up and hormone therapy) should be accessible to everyone
the changing role of body image for boys and men over the past decade
what our faces and bodies are actually for
the billionaires who want to live forever and go to great lengths to avoid aging

Thanks for listening!

Links:
Find everything mentioned in today’s show at brookemcalary.substack.com 
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Access the full, human-made transcript here

Credits:
the tortoise & the hare is a McAlary Media production.
Produced and hosted by Brooke McAlary and Ben McAlary
Edited by Ben McAlary
Studio equipment supplied by shot.studio
Theme music is Edgar Allan Poe by Modern Aquatic

When it comes to age and youth, body image takes a beating at both ends. Can we find a gentler way through the years?
In today&rsquo;s show, Brooke and Ben discuss the duality of wrinkles &amp; pimples &mdash; i.e. the visible elements of youth and aging &mdash; and how they are literally in the middle of it right now, with both wrinkles and pimples (and grey hair and stiff backs in the morning).
They discuss:
<ul>
<li>changing body image in their mid-40s</li>
<li>why gender-affirming care (including hair removal, plastic surgery, make-up and hormone therapy) should be accessible to everyone</li>
<li>the changing role of body image for boys and men over the past decade</li>
<li>what our faces and bodies are actually for</li>
<li>the billionaires who want to live forever and go to great lengths to avoid aging</li>
</ul>
Thanks for listening!
Links:
<ul>
<li>Find everything mentioned in today&rsquo;s show at <a href="https://www.brookemcalary.substack.com">brookemcalary.substack.com</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>Become a paying supporter of ttath and get double the episodes! Weekly shows delivered straight to your inbox for <a href="https://www.brookemcalary.substack.com/subscribe">just $5AUD/month for a limited time</a></li>
<li>If video is your jam, subscribe to our YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thetortoiseandthehare">@thetortoiseandthehare</a></li>
<li><a href="https://brookemcalary.substack.com/p/wrinkles-and-pimples?showTranscript=true">Access the full, human-made transcript here</a></li>
</ul>
Credits:
<ul>
<li>the tortoise &amp; the hare is a McAlary Media production.</li>
<li>Produced and hosted by Brooke McAlary and Ben McAlary</li>
<li>Edited by Ben McAlary</li>
<li>Studio equipment supplied by shot.studio</li>
<li>Theme music is Edgar Allan Poe by&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/3NH6G625odjefc6B8x21ol?si=s0SgpRcrRi-epsHTor9PcQ">Modern Aquatic</a></li>
</ul>

Fast and slow. Young and old. Hard and soft. Open and closed. Real and fake. Hide and seek. Pleasure and pain… Life is full of dualities and extremes and pick-a-sides. But most of our days are spent in the messy middle. 

the tortoise and the hare is a weekly show from the crew who brought you The Slow Home Podcast (RIP). Each episode is a human-made, homegrown, perfectly imperfect conversation about the either/or of life and the vast grey area in between.

Because we all contain multitudes. So let’s talk about them.

Fast and slow. Young and old. Hard and soft. Open and closed. Real and fake. Hide and seek. Pleasure and pain&hellip; Life is full of dualities and extremes and pick-a-sides. But most of our days are spent in the messy middle.&nbsp;
the tortoise and the hare is a weekly show from the crew who brought you The Slow Home Podcast (RIP). Each episode is a human-made, homegrown, perfectly imperfect conversation about the either/or of life and the vast grey area in between.
Because we all contain multitudes. So let&rsquo;s talk about them.

We all contain multitudes. So let's talk about them.

the tortoise & the hare

When it comes to age and youth, body image takes a beating at both ends. Can we find a gentler way through the years?