The Joys of Opinionated Older Women

Did you have a double-take then, seeing the words ‘joy’ and ‘opinionated older women’ in one sentence? Surely a typo... Because from the ‘scold's bridle’ torture device used to silence ‘nagging’ wives and condemned witches onwards (and probably long before too), the voices of post-reproductive women have not been welcomed, let alone celebrated by patria…