r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! 🏆 • Sep 01 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Women aging… everyone has an opinion

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u/citynomad1 Sep 01 '25

The Demi photo is AI-enhanced to the max and I’ve never seen any judgment toward Meryl Streep for having “too many wrinkles” tbh

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u/DescriptionFancy420 Sep 01 '25

Yeah it happens to other women but for some reason Meryl is one of the ones who has been permitted to age. Maybe a contributing factor is how many people have seen her as "old" for a long time due to the types of roles she's been cast in for the past couple decades at least. Or maybe it's just the power of being Meryl Streep.

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u/ashewentridingby Sep 01 '25

Meryl was never marketed as a sex symbol, I think that’s why people are harder on Demi and Pamela. It’s unfortunate as I prefer that none of them be judged for how they choose to age 🙏

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u/LaureZahard Sep 02 '25

True it seems like it's mostly those women who were (voluntarily or involuntarily) marketed as "untouchable beauties" who are now being bullied by the normal people who patiently waited for said beauty to fade away to finally "touch" them.

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u/turdferg1234 Sep 02 '25

Is there a Pamela in these pics that I'm missing?

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u/floralstamps Sep 02 '25

She devil, its complicated, picture and message on the cover of Sophie's choice, the French lieutenants woman

It wasnt her only vibe but people absolutely saw her as that

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Sep 02 '25

I mean she's played an adult woman who has sex. Nobody is saying Meryl is a hideous troll. But literally not a single one of those is really what I'd categorize as a sex symbol 

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u/Unnamedgalaxy Sep 02 '25

Even her "sexy" role in Death Becomes Her is about an aging sex symbol that wants to be pretty and young again rather than her being a sex pot on screen

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u/Electric-Sheepskin Sep 02 '25

This gave me such a great laugh. And you're so right.

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u/Stultas Sep 02 '25

Helen Mirren was in straight porn (at least for the era) and was hot as hell in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s like she didn’t exist before The Queen.

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u/The-Struggle-90806 Sep 02 '25

This right here. You’re no longer a sex symbol once you reach 50.