Urinary Stress Incontinence, Mean Girls, and Depression Toads

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I Had Pee Surgery So You Can Too!

If there’s anything we love talking about here at Croning, it’s aging lady parts. There are many places out here on the Interwebs were you can get information about midurethral sling surgery. But if you want to learn all about this therapy for women with dilapidated pelvic floors while also being fucking hilarious about it, Elizabeth Gomez of Mixed Race Tape is your gal.

I thought this image could use more retro. (Totally rad clipart from from Freepik.)

When Mean Girls Grow Up

Back when I had a corporate life, 100% of my interpersonal problems were with other women in the office. The story of how I went from being a Cool Girl™—she’s not like other girls!—to captain of Team Y R Men is a story for another day, but this interview with the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes is pretty good. The money quote?

“The root of many of the challenges women have at work and relationally with each other comes from women not having traditional paths to power,” she said. “When you are restricted from those powers, you assert power in more passive-aggressive ways.”

Tracy Emin Is Serious

Another interview, another killer quote:

How are women doing in the art world these days?

Well, I think women are doing a lot better than men. Men peak between the age of 40 and 50, and women peak between the age of 50 and 80. Men have one big giant ejaculation, and women come and come and come again. So this is why if you are a female artist and you’re doing okay at 50, you’re going to be doing quite good at 60, fucking excellent at 70, and out of this world at 80 and 90. One of my first and best artist friends in New York was Louise Bourgeois. There were 50 years between us, but she was a big inspiration because there she was, 97, still going for it, still cracking it out, still thinking. If I can be like that, it means I’ve got only halfway through my career.

This is a conversation with art critic and provocateur Jerry Salz and if you don’t follow him on Instagram you’re missing out.