Posted on 01/02/2010 6:51:38 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
If you bother to read Joanna Weiss' column in today's Boston Globe, expect to get a sense of deja . . . lu. Like untold screeds that have preceded it, "Hollywood’s burden on aging women" stamps its feet over the unequal treatment of aging in men and women.
You know: male stars are allowed to age gracefully, but women must struggle ever-harder to conform to a youthful stereotype of sex-appeal. Unfair!
The feminist response is to blame the culture, in this case embodied by Hollywood, for promoting shallow, sexist values. But the fault, dear Joanna, is not in our stars but in our ourselves, or more precisely, in our DNA.
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Call me sexist but I prefer Bardot Version 1.0 ping to Today show list.
Obligatory.
I agree about Bardot and will add Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, and Katherine Hepburn just to name a few.
Sour and unhappy inside works its way out into the appearance. Obviously not 100% true. But generally bitter, mean people do look less attractive than happy, well adjusted people.
Problem is that too many men think with their gonads and not with their minds and hearts, and too many women knock themselves out trying to please these guys. Hence, all the botox, surgery, etc etc. Women shouldn't do that to themselves, IMHO. Aging is a part of life.
The people I feel badly for are the ones who don't make it to "senior citizen" status.
I was going to post it myself, but was confident my fellow FReepers would get the job done.
Let’s see, according to the Boston Globe author, for what part in which film should Helen be cast in?
Nobody stays young and beautiful forever..and most men dont look so hot, either. Some men look well as they age, most dont.
“Who was more beautiful than Katherine Hepburn in her 80’s?”
True, and I can sincerely see the beauty in many older women. But it is simply silly for authors like this Boston Globe columnist to stamp their feet over the fact that, by and large, men are going to prefer younger, nubile women in leading lady parts.
I would argue that MEN are the ones discriminated against.
An older guy can’t get any if he does not have money.
An older woman CAN get it even without money.
Well, she already has a prominent role in one of the scariest horror shows ever.
It’s not your imagination. It’s that whole “Faces of Dorian Gray” thing.
She has been to court five times, and fined for "insulting Islam" and telling France the truth.
Maureen O’Hara is lovely in her 80’s and for beauty surpasses many “beauties” in Hollywood today.
It's true that audiences will have to use their imagination to visualize, say, Brigit Bardot as Mark Antony and, say, Eddie Murphy as Cleopatra, but this minor inconvenience is certainly outweighed by the elimination of such an outrageous injustice!
I'm sure eveybone agrees.
Besides, isn't this the law already???
(BTW, my New Year's Resolution is to become more Mainstream. How am I doing?)
The best looking “older” woman was and is Maureen O’Hara. She was a major league beauty who actually kept that beauty as she aged. As did Ingrid Bergman. And Marlene Dietrich.
Happy New Year to you, Mark - looking forward to another year of your intrepid venturing into the dank underbelly of liberal thought, keeping us informed and aware. Stock up on the Prilosec, looks like you're going to need it ;-)
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