Right. I’ve never seen an old person without immediately recoiling in horror, because I was raised in an under-30 only creche on a remote island without internet.
Your strawman has some bearing in hollywood circles where image is everything, but as several aging celebrities have shown us – you can literally disappear from the public whenever you want.
We are talking about actors, specifically Courtney Cox. Your weird island idea is the straw man in this conversation.
The idea that she should age in a way that continues your “crush” on her or else “disappear from the public” is continuing the policing of women’s bodies that I am referring to.
I’m not claiming agency over her like a fawning stalker… I expressed a small crush on a public figure and lamented that she had to turn to drastic surgery to remain in the limelight, when she could have just disappeared from the public consciousness altogether.
Right. I’ve never seen an old person without immediately recoiling in horror, because I was raised in an under-30 only creche on a remote island without internet.
Your strawman has some bearing in hollywood circles where image is everything, but as several aging celebrities have shown us – you can literally disappear from the public whenever you want.
We are talking about actors, specifically Courtney Cox. Your weird island idea is the straw man in this conversation.
The idea that she should age in a way that continues your “crush” on her or else “disappear from the public” is continuing the policing of women’s bodies that I am referring to.
I’m not claiming agency over her like a fawning stalker… I expressed a small crush on a public figure and lamented that she had to turn to drastic surgery to remain in the limelight, when she could have just disappeared from the public consciousness altogether.