{"id":139601,"date":"2015-08-25T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/25\/jazz2midnight-barefootdramaturg\/"},"modified":"2015-08-25T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T06:48:03","slug":"jazz2midnight-barefootdramaturg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/25\/jazz2midnight-barefootdramaturg\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

jazz2midnight<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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barefootdramaturg<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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squirrelswithmakeup<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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amuseoffyre<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Just had a thought for an action hero thing: 30-something woman hero is doing her ass-kicking thing. One day, her boss shows up at her door, and tells her she has to stand down, or there will be consequences. \u201cHoney, it\u2019s not that you\u2019re too old. It\u2019s just the public don\u2019t like to see a woman of your age saving the day. It feels emasculating\u201d.<\/p>\n

So woman is stripped of her support team, fellow agents, and is pretty much put on the shelf. She tries to do heroing, but keeps getting cockblocked by younger women or superhero men she used to work alongside.<\/p>\n

Just when she\u2019s hitting rock bottom (and sitting in her house wearing pyjamas and eating ice cream), there\u2019s a knock at the door. Judi Dench is standing there, and our heroine assumes it\u2019s a charity collection.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh no, dear,\u201d Dench says, smiling. \u201cWe\u2019ve come to recruit you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRecruit me? For what?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo do what we do best: save the bloody world.\u201d<\/p>\n

And all at once she\u2019s part of a covert ops team made of all the older women who have been retired and who currently are holding the reins of managing the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am here for this plan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, yes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jazz2midnight: barefootdramaturg: squirrelswithmakeup: amuseoffyre: Just had a thought for an action hero thing: 30-something woman hero is doing her ass-kicking thing. One day, her boss shows up at her door, and tells her she has to stand down, or there will be consequences. \u201cHoney, it\u2019s not that you\u2019re too old. It\u2019s just the public don\u2019t … <\/p>\n

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