Call me sexist but I prefer Bardot Version 1.0 ping to Today show list.
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I agree about Bardot and will add Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, and Katherine Hepburn just to name a few.
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 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.
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?)
I know I wouldn't.
Let face it, prior to 25, women hold almost all the cards. After 30, biology kicks in big time and men get their revenge. After 50, it doesn’t matter for the vast majority of us. The only ones still able to “git some strange” are those who are some combination of rich, famous, or somehow manage to stay in shape.
Nature made the qualities that most women find sexually attractive in a man (confidence & stature) increase with age, while the qualities that most men find sexually attractive in women (smooth skin and gravity free curves) decrease with age.
For every lonely 45-60 year old female unhappy over this reality, there is a 13-30 year old male who is equally unhappy.
Merrill Streep is still doing VERY well - she keeps herself in good health -
Here Joanna. Life's a bitch for us guys too.
To the feminists who have helped, greatly, to ruin this great country, I say, suck it. You wanted equality, you got it. As a 40-something white guy, no one hesitates to remind me that I’m old, bald and not in shape like I was when I was 25. Thanks to “equality”, we are now free to remind women of this as well, although I don’t choose that route. Equality? Enjoy!
"In Hollywood, when women hit 50 they enter the Actress Protection Program."
Who is that a picture of?
Well that’s what they get for creating a sexualised, “liberated” promiscuous youth culture. They wanted to be be like men and sleep around, which means being judged on their youthful appearance, because all the “liberation” in the world won’t change men’s biological urges and attraction towards female sexual beauty. They messed with a system which served women well for hundreds of years-monogamous lifetime relationship and a premium on marriage and chastity-and now they’re reaping what they sowed. They got it azz-backwards, because women are more judged on their youth and physical appearance now than at any other time in history, PLUS they’re expected to maintain that youthful attractiveness longer, because they don’t have the security of a long-term monogamous relationship-namely, marriage-to succor them when that is all past. They wanted it all, “just like men”, and now they have less than before.
There are very few Hollywood types that I will make the effort of finding my reading glasses and typing out a couple hundred via the teeny tiny keys of my cell phone.
Ms. Bardot is one that I will do that for.
Why? Well I would have to play Hollywood Trivia with myslef to name (in this moment) any of her films...but I do KNOW that BB has been arrested and sited; been to court; paid fines; and will in the future face JAIL for her speaking out against the Islamification of her beloved France.
Yes...rather than nipping and tucking; living on lettuce leaves and frettting over the passage of time, Ms. Bardot has used her celebrity to speak out against the PC and the kowtailing to Shar’ia.
For that I applaud her. For that we should all applaud her (as opposed to the lose 60lbs and the eye makeup comments).
Rather than sitting and ‘being’ something to admire, she is risking her very life speaking out as she does.
Pffft to those who criticize her aging look.
It wasn't always this way. In the 30's we had Gone With the Wind, a war movie which managed to have more strong female characters than male, The Wizard of Oz, with almost an even split. These were big blockbusters. In the 40 and 50's we had the golden age of chick flicks, musicals, and Doris Day movies. There was an unusual movie, "The Women", made with only female actors, even in bit parts, like a cab driver. I would love to see a movie using that technique again.
Sorry Dear but biology will win everytime.