just a thought but a 'famous' name is in itself a persona isn't it? it's the persona under which you make your public appearances and opinions etc and presumably has some distinction from your private life much as using a pseudonym does for a person writing on the internet. as a non famous (in the wider sense of audience) name it may have less accountability and less identifying of the private life attached to it but it is not so different from the public persona of a famous person who is also known only for the face they put out there rather than their private intimate self.
just a thought.
i have just read and caught up on this whole thread having missed it the first time round. what strikes me is that it isn't really that different ages of feminist have different 'battles' or problems to tackle but that they are experiencing different faces of the same problem - or are fighting on different fronts of the same war to stick with the combat metaphor.
the objectification and non human being status of women will be manifested throughout our lifetimes in different ways - the princess culture of childhood will become the porn star sex object pressure of youth and the invisibility and worthlessness of age when our ability to conform to these models wears out. it's the problem of women being valued primarily for their appearance, being socialised to see their appearance as key to their self worth and being discouraged from finding their worth in wider more meaningful ways.
to say MW doesn't matter but the treatment of older women as worthless does is like saying.... (struggles for a decent analogy)... acorns are unconnected to oak trees or how you mix the ingredients doesn't effect the cake (clearly fails on the analogy front).
without the objectification of girls and women we wouldn't end up with the consequences we see upon the status of women who no longer fit the ideal object mould.