http://www.examiner.com/article/meryl-streep-on-hollywood-ageism-older-women-are-seen-as-grotesque
I found this article where actress, Meryl Streep, talks about ageism and how when women get to a certain age they are scene as grotesque. After she turned 40 Meryl said that she was asked to play many roles as witches, and I just found it funny how 40 is not even an old age, but apparently it is the age where you should be casted as a witch in film. I also found it very interesting that at age 62, Meryl was the oldest woman to ever be on the cover of vogue, meanwhile the editor-in-chief of the magazine is 62 herself(seems hypocritcal). Ageism is huge in the media and it seems that with celeberties everyone always wants younger and younger and this causes people to think that if they aren't young they are useless. Well you know the saying "age is just a number" and people are just people, and they should not be judged based soley on how old or young they are.
That is very interesting. I have heard that when news anchors discover a wrinkle, they are fired and replaced with someone young. While this may be an exaggeration, especially in Hollywood, a lot of it is true. We may marvel at someone like Meryl Streep or Sally Field because they are still acting at "their age", but really, they are not that old. With all of the beauty products and the touch ups done on magazine cover people, people feel ashamed to be "old". But they're really not.
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