The erasure of older female characters

[owlfish]

Older women rarely get to be protagonists, or otherwise portray as complex and interesting characters. That's a reason why there was a moderate amount of buzz around Harry Connelly's A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark. Its aging protagonist had adult nephews, and a long career in her past. It's sad that's worthy of remark

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[diglett]

I wanted to know what had happened to Peppa's grandmother after reading this - it's practically a genealogical mystery! According to peppapedia (!) she is alive and well aged 74, having come back from the dead in the episode "Priscilla Pig" (I would be intrigued to see this). There has obviously been some kind of fallout. Maybe she ran off with Granddad Dog?

[moral_vacuum]

Write in to complain. And get one of the Guardian columnists on the case.

[pennski]

Is it possible she is in the pork products in the cafe?

[austengirl]

Ah the joys of PPW. I took my niece and sister-in-law as my Christmas present to the former, finally delivered at the beginning of August. We had a two day ticket as it was a bit more of a journey for all of us (they came from Yorkshire) which meant we could spread out the rides and go back to favorite ones (well, they could, most things are off-limits to pregnant women). It was surprisingly good fun, niece probably enjoyed the main theme park slightly more than PPW, but is about 20 months older than Grouting and didn't really distinguish between the two.