Thrice upon a time

[rivkat]

Let me specify that I, too, am enjoying the women of Once Upon a Time. However: Jennifer Morrison (born 1979) plays the daughter of Ginnifer Godwin (born 1978), who plays the stepdaughter of Lana Parilla (born 1977). (That’s one precocious mayor!) If there is a better illustration of Hollywood’s horror of women over 40, don’t tell me. I really don’t want to know.

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[locknkey]

When film and television begin forking over the regular inclusion of women over 40 who get to take up some physical space and still be sexually desirable without having to diet/exercise to the point that I can see their skeletal structure, then--and only then--will I believe that we've made some forward progress.

It's distressing as a woman over forty and recently divorced to see on my TV. It's even harder when it seems to be echoed all the time in RL. Ageism is alive and well. I have no proof that women are harder hit by this in RL, but in media it seems there are many more actors over forty that are not shunted into the baking cookie grandma roll or the overweight-over-the-hill comic relief and most certainly are not denied their sexuality.

I was quite depressed for a while to learn that the odds of a woman over forty remarrying are about two percent and most men over forty are looking for younger woman whoa re also thin and athletic. I suspect those pervasive views play into what we see reflected in media as media often reflects the lowest common denominator.