A closer look
Rue McClanahan was exactly fifty-one years old when she started playing man-crazed senior citizen Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, which is the exact same age Sarah Jessica Parker was in the Sex and the City reboot. Television executives in the eighties apparently believed that once a woman crossed the half-century mark, she immediately sprouted a wardrobe of pastel pantsuits. Fast forward a few decades, and fifty-something women strut around Manhattan in designer heels having mid-life crises. It highlights how unhinged our societal perception of aging used to be, though I wouldn't mind retiring to Miami with roommates to complain about my dating life over baked goods
