She was never young.
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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Uh...does she still look like a chicken?
She was never young.
I think he could have done better...
Dont’s forget Dame Judith Dench-I love her in anything she does!
you say: “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.”
Actually. quite true - it’s a science: Rather like “You are what you eat” - you eventually “Look what you are”
Physiognomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy
Here Joanna. Life's a bitch for us guys too.
If women in Hollywood want to still be above-the-title stars after a certain age they need to use their money to become producers and make the movies they’d like the see made. The biggest example of how well this works is the amazingly beautiful AND talented Sandra Bullock. Can you remember ANY of the other actresses that became popular around the same time Bullock got “Speed?” Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and a few others and NONE of them are $12 million stars the way that Bullock is today. Why? Because she was smart about the roles she took and she learned to make her own movies while she was still the hot young thing. She produced “Miss Congenialty” with her own money and insured that she could always cast herself if other producers wanted the next hot thing. She rarely to never gives a bad performance and she’s one of those women who has only gotten hotter with age. These harpies are all just jealous that they didn’t outsmart the system the way Bullock did.
But maybe not!
True - but from that to this? That's a lot of added ugly - that's what an uber liberal mind will do to you. Young gals, beware! ;o) 
Women don't do these things for men, they do them because they are competing in a beauty competition with other women.
LOL: although I bet some women would find that Nolte Version Mug Shot shows lots of interesting character ;-)
I just saw the Proposal last week. OK, light comedy (I knew what I was getting). Bullock was great and Betty White, who I believe is in her late 80’s, was too. They were the clear stars of the picture. I couldn’t get over, however, how good Mary Steenburgen looked. You knew the character was about sixty, you believed she was in that age group. I want to look like that when I am sixty. (And I want to look like Betty White when I am 85).
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."
“When I grow up I wanna be an old woman....”
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