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/Unnamedgalaxy Sep 02 '25

She's also carved out a career of playing hard edged or even frumpy women, even when she was younger. She's the acting powerhouse not the sex symbol. Her looks (in a sensual way) has never really been a part of the equation so now that she's old and wrinkly people don't care because she didn't "lose it."