Who remembers Pippy Longstocking? She was a precocious young pirate character who I vaguely remember. We have a lot of those characters from our childhood that make an impact on us, and in some ways stay with us forever. Look at someone like Shirley Temple. We still share her movies to the young people of this world. The thing is, when was the last time you saw a shirley temple movie starring old Shirley? No one wants to see it. We want to remember Shirley as the little girl from our childhood.
That's the point this image makes by showing Pippy Longstocking in all her glory. She's got the face we know and remember, but her body reveals the truth. This is the reality for everyone we know and love, yet we idolize and remember the young version. It's just one of the ways we make the elderly invisible in modern culture.