The Devil Wears Prada (literature)/Fridge
- Miranda is a woman in her mid fifties (maybe even 60s) who somehow has 10 year old kids. The reason why would be because her obsessive focus on work carried over into her personal life, which is why she can't stay married and why she had children so late in life.
- Wait, what? Miranda "somehow" has ten-year-old children? What exactly is it that you find surprising/puzzling about this fact? Some women choose to wait a while to have children, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that choice. Also, there's no evidence at all that Miranda would have preferred to have children when she was younger instead. Really it's doubtful if she would have had time for them then, considering she was just starting out as an editor.
- Also, am I the only person who's ever noticed that this trope (of the workaholic who focuses on their job to the exclusion of their friends/family/marriage) is always a woman? That men are never discouraged from being ambitious or from working hard, or criticized or judged for doing so? This trope has very sexist implications, and I find it really disturbing that you seem to be seconding them. In the words of the film itself, "If Miranda were a man, no one would notice anything except how good she is at her job."
- It's easier physically for a man, and there's really no set time limit for a man, which means men aren't really making a decision on it