Hollywood has a culture of huge age gaps that glorify men with young women. And because Hollywood is accessed by everyone. All of our entertainment and media comes from there in one way or another. So it’s been normalised one society that women have expiry dates. Women can’t be sexy past a certain age, women aren’t desirable if they can’t have children anymore. Hollywood makes a 35+ year old woman seem old. Meanwhile 60 year old men can still be the attractive lead love interest and nobody thinks they’re too old. It’s reflected in society. People look down on “cougars” but men do the same thing all the time. They can start a new family in their 60’s, marry someone younger than their first kids and be grandfathers and new fathers at the same time. Women biologically cannot do this. So people let men get away with it as though it’s okay for them to get with women who could be their own grandchildren. It’s a complex issue and I don’t think I could do to justice. But Hollywood is sexist and ageist toward women and I’m tired of it.
It’ll take some radical turnaround to change this existing culture in Hollywood. It’s disgusting how it’s normalized. Also, Hollywood hates women.
Where do you go after you’ve done a horrible and terrible thing? What falls apart and what remains? What can be fixed and what can’t be? How do you live with the guilt? Do you let it overwhelm you, or do you try to manage it? Do you mitigate it? What’s the most righteous way to be after having been so wrong? How do you live with the fact that you’ve hurt the people you love most? How do you live with yourself?
