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The Age-old Question

How to stay young in Hollywood? Become a lesbian.


Search the internet for any female entertainer over the age of 40. What you’ll find: other people talking about how old they’re getting. By “people” I mean everyone from financial advisers to celebrity-obsessed journalists to losers with nothing better to do than write hateful blogs. You’ll find a securities analyst reporting to Warner Music Group -- in advising the label not to re-sign her -- that Madonna is not bankable, citing the fact that she’ll be 60 at the end of her new Live Nation contract. You’ll find a celebrity gossip blog saying Sharon Stone “looks pretty good for being 120 years old.” That kind of talk hurts, as demonstrated by Kim Cattrall crying about ageism in her speech at the Golden Globes. Demi Moore gets the worst of it—she only married Ashton to make herself look younger and she looks like crap even after all the plastic surgery. (Classic double whammy: hate you for being old, and hate you for trying to do something about how old you are.) No matter how these women are dismissed and dissected, people will always mention their age.

Now let’s look at our out lesbians. Rosie, as we all know, was recently called a “slob” and a “truck driver” by a certain man with astounding hair. Ellen broke down about a rescue dog on her TV show, after which people coined her “a mess.” While it seems that our lesbians in the public eye are caught in a different double standard (at once too masculine and not masculine enough), people don’t really care how old they are. Why?

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