Knowing Nintendo, I would guess complacency.

“Does it? All I know it that a 70 year old male “star” can still get highly paid scripts (even as an ‘action hero’), the girls? Over 40, it’s over”

Leading-role-actor seems like the worst possible profession to have this conversation over. Partly for the reasons you listed, but also partly because the salary isn’t set unilaterally by the studio. Every single salary is negotiated by a team of lawyers and agents; if male actor X is making more money than female…

Are there many leading actors her own age? It seems that it takes a lot longer for male actors to break into the big time than female actors.

THAT IS SO COOL!! And only $20! I think I may have to obtain that.

I am so there! http://goo.gl/QMMdEO

Based on your self-description, I would totally go to Comic Con with you.

I totally believe it; it just seems that on this website at least there’s just so often a tendency to come up with a contrived excuse why people’s shallow physical requirements totally aren’t shallow.

There’s always a perfectly legitimate totally non-shallow reason why short/overweight/modestly-incomed men are just not attractive to many of the posters, and it’s usually blamed on the men themselves (“bad personality/lazy/unambitious/etc./etc.”).

Standards do seem a little crazy there. If it makes you feel better, my height gives me very little advantage on those sites because my body type is not “athletic and toned.” I am continuously bemused by the height/body type/race combinations so many of the women on those sites insist on.

“ I like my men like I like my barbies”

I have a weird psychological quirk in that I usually say I’m an inch shorter than I am, typically when strangers ask me my height. I came to the conclusion it was a weird neurotic way of lashing out at such an obnoxious question.

Judged by who, though? Certainly not Hollywood; it seems to favor shorter men.

“It has been suggested to me that my 3 yo son needed Occupational Therapy because he didn’t eat yoghurt. No, sadly, I’m not making that up. #overprotectiveparents”

“I’m incredibly active with my son’s education (if he is having issues with school I’m *that* mom that wants the issue resolved then and there) and sometimes I place the pepperoni on his frozen pizza in the shape of a smiley face. My defense of these actions? I’m still teaching him how to be a functional human being.”

“A friend of mine couldn’t peel a peach when he was about 20.”

“But this has been the only time in my hotel career where I saw a GM tell a guest to never come back the hotel.”

I’m just oppressing.

Terms like “oppressor class” are reductions in the extreme. It misreads how actual power relations work in the real world and projects an inaccurate picture of “class” cohesion.

“Question: Is it rude to ask someone if they’re interested in having kids?”