To think that the Gransnet images are wrong for the demographic?

[MumblingRagDoll]

I can't work out why MN headquarters have chosen wartime images....surely most grans online are in their 60s and 70s...so the images should be more 50s and 60s based? Rock n' Roll etc.

I know SOME grans will be in their 80s and 90s....but not many....

Come on! I really want to know! Maybe this should be in site stuff...

Irony?????

Are they secretly incubating GreatGransNet?

Irony? Retrophilia? Plus those sorts of socialist realist images are a brilliant shorthand for the 'empowerment' schtick. I like them.

I thought that, too.

Assuming your average gran is 55 when first grandchild is born, she'd have been born in 1956, so her heyday would be the Seventies, not the bleeding 30s or40s.

Because Grans are oooooooooooooold. YABU.

....surely most grans online are in their 60s and 70s...
I take issue with this
I'm only in my 50s!

See what you're saying though - even if it's ironic it sort of backfires?

I think they are fine- the images are trendy at the moment, and modern grins are much more fashionable that we perhaps used to think. I don't think they are attempting to reference the timeframe that actual grans lived through. They are ironic, aren't they? And pretty.

Modern grins? You know what I meant.

I agree with Wordsworth. The images are of strong women, the kind of women who I hope would use GN. Not fluffy grannies, but forthright, opinionated women who happen to be grandmothers.

You could argue that MN's logo is too outdated, since many many MNetters are young and it is a 1970s logo.

I think its supposed to be a bit like the Soap & Glory images, well that's what it reminded me of

Hmm.....yes, suppose so. But those type of images have been "trendy" for quite some time now...maybe it might be more cutting edge to reference culture which is relevant to the age group in question.

Plus, 50s and 60s stuff is cool and iconic too!

I like it - my kids are 23 and 25, DS(25) bought a house with his girlfriend just over a year ago, she is definitely broody so watch this space. This would make me a granny even though I am in my forties.

There is a 1950s revival at present that I think the MN advertisers are referring to (bunting, street parties, kitsch M&S kitchenware, grow your own veg, austerity measures etc) not suggesting that we should all have our children neatly scrubbed and lined up at the door to greet Daddy when he comes in from work, bring him his pipe and slippers whilst Mummy whips up a roast, doffs apron and applies fresh lippy to greet home the breadwinner!"

It would be really interesting to unearth iconic 1950s images of women that weren't all about reasserting domesticity and femininity as a reaction to the wartime extension of women's presence into industry.

Or to find iconic images of women from the 1960s that didn't partake of the slightly questionable hippy salience of a 'free love' theme that preceded the current badgering of women to regard sex as anempowerment.

In other words, it seems a bit sad that we have to look back to wartime for these shorthands for strong women.

takerespponsibility but the images are 40s....not 50s....I think wordwork is right...60s images would be better.

Eek! Found one.

Aagh! Wordwork!

tee hee

Eeek. You should have included a warning in that post, Wordsworth.

Yeeeerrrs, I prefer Mumbling's

Yes...bottoms speak for all generations!