Two very different views of the "new old"
Moses Znaimer, the founder of Zoomer Media and Zoomer Magazine, has responded to a recent web column by Mireille Silcoff in the National Post. Silcoff was critical of the "Zoomer" mentality.In part...
Silcoff (April 24): I am all for people living the fullest, richest lives possible for as long as possible, great sex included. But I cannot abide by Mr. Znaimer when he claims that his magazine's raison d'etre is in raising the self esteem of the new old. I can think of nothing that could more effectively deliver a collective crisis of confidence than this perfectly bound specimen.
Znaimer (April 29):Mireille Silcoff's piece is really more an expression of her own fear of, and discomfort with, aging (and her mother's aging) than it is a balanced critique of our magazine. Her comments and struggle with how to age are a perfect illustration of Zoomer's mandate and the debate we hope to inspire.
posted by D. B. Scott at
11:05 am
2 Comments:
I had to laugh when I read Mireille Silcoff's story. She's 37? In less than 10 years she'll find Zoomer is actually talking directly to her, when lots of other lifestyle magazines no longer do.
You really do cross a line when you pass 40 and as a lot of us oldsters know, it goes much faster than you ever thought possible. And your late 30s to late 40s? Well, that decade goes like the wind.
Agreed. Sadly.
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