mojoflower:

I was just looking at these stunning pictures of Robert Downey, Jr. and had a sudden, stomach dropping moment of self-pity and jealousy. So, what, most of his thirties were lost years, filled with drugs and arrests and other mistakes and, one assumes, a good deal of emotional pain.  And now, at 50, he’s on top of the world.

Anyway, it occurred to me that women don’t have this opportunity.  To make mistakes early and then have a mid-life comeback.  Because women, at 50, are old.  Especially in an acting career.  I often think about the disappearance of Kathleen Turner, a good example of how women are swept under the carpet to hide their ugly aging features after 30.  There will be no coming back and people saying, Oh, her crows-feet are so sexy, love the grey in her hair, so distinguished, omg, check out the veins in her hands, unf.  So women sure as shit better have their acts together and make the most of the twenty years they get, and those years are SEQUENTIAL, and there aren’t other options.

It’s so fucking unfair.