The endless pillorying of Madonna

And what it says about the way women are allowed to age (or not)

Madonna at this week's Grammys

If you’ve been living, blissfully, under a rock (or have a much healthier relationship with social media than I do) you might not have seen all the recent fuss about Madonna at the Grammy awards on Sunday. I know, I know, it’s Madonna. There’s always a fuss about something. But let me be more specific: the fuss was not about her performance or her music. Of course not. The fuss was about Madonna’s face

There were plenty of other things to talk about, things centred around female achievement: Beyoncé winning her 32nd Grammy and overturning composer/conductor George Solti’s record of 31 awards in his lifetime; Viola Davis winning best audiobook and becoming an EGOT (someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, no small feat. Such a shame the BBC couldn’t tell her and Beyoncé apart… I kid you not); and blues…