Let's face it - no one is making caliber movies these days - they are more the isolated example than general release. Look to the older movies and you see a genre of films that featured women of a wider age span than now.

If African Queen was made today, it would star a Harrison Ford and a Scarlett Johanssen.

I don't need to see women of my age bedding 20 year old eye candy, but I am tired of seeing men of my age bedding 20 year olds too.

I wish there were more roles and parts showing women of my age doing "life" but we are disappeared in the media. In real life, on the otherhand, I see many more women in their 50's living an interesting life, than I do of the 20 somethings - who many seem to be very busy looking for men to marry. Older women seem to realise that life is to be lived and want a richer life.

As far as Demi goes - it has been said already - she has little acting charisma and slim talent. All she had was her youth and some prettiness. What a pity she has spent so much money on something so vain and passing as trying to age non-gracefully. Her money and time could have been put to something more interesting to her.

But she is correct in her pointing the finger - there is a very active ageism practiced in Hollywood. Check out Julie Christy - 65 and really quite beautiful. She would never serve as the romantic interest in an Hollywood film now with Warren Beatty, who is of similar age, opposite. That's the ageism that women notice and get tired of.

Yeah - it was meant to be funny but you know, this message that women are worthless once their bodies get much past 35 is so prevalent, that I find it hard to laugh at what is obviously a humourous take on one woman's experience with aging and her breasts.

When I start to see article after article of men commenting on the age process tolls on thier bodies and their loss of being seen as sexually valuable - then maybe I will find more humour in one woman's experience.

As it is - it is just more of the same, more of the same. If I want to hear more of this, I will just go to a movie and watch some aging male actor get paired up with a woman half his age, and wonder why there are no women my age on the screen - anywhere!

People age differently. Heridity and lifestyle dictate how it goes for each person. I resent being grouped with endowed women who are now in gravity's control. I missed out on all the male attention such women got earlier in life - fine. But please don't try and group me with you later in life. There are some benefits of being small - and fit.

Just note that the article is not saying that Madonna or Angelina went and got themselves "deveined" in pursuit of smooth pudgy hands.

It said that both women have been critiqued for having (gasp) veins!

But the comment "where will it stop" is well placed.

Women in the media are visciously torn apart for merely living.

If we all died at 22, we'd all be beautiful.

How do we push back on the media which is so viscious to those women who are lucky enough to live beyond 22?

When I was a child, my piano teacher, who I am probably older than now than she was then, had large blue veins mapping routes acrosst the backs of her hands.

I remember being fascinated with them - thought them lovely and wanted to see my own veins. I realised that somehow, it was using her hands, playing the piano for years, that made her veins promenent (She was chubby - so not low body fat)

Now I look at my arms and hands and see my own veins and am strangely fascinated by them, the way I was by my music teacher's. I used my body and got work and pleasure out of activities. My veins are the post cards from my travels through my life.

So shut the fuck up superficial star rags. We really don't need any more of this poison.

Isn't it though? Here is this industry, defining what is "hawt" and trying to sell product and image to women (who theoretically have more money than girls), and yet, the image of woman used to sell the product is so rare in the natural world that many of the models use unnatural means to look like a 14 year old girl.

The other fashion industry - like Victoria Secret - use another rarified female form - the tiny woman with no thighs and large round high breasts - to shill their product.

And women, we buy it, don't we? And then there is the diet and plastic surgery industries, ready to get the rest of our money when we feel like crap because not only do the clothes and bras not look good on our natural bodies, but they only draw our attention to how we don't "measure up".

Stupid Girl, indeed.

I really don't think it is the breasts that cause the too young sexual activity as much as it causes inappropriate sexual attention from older males.

Children are sexualized at a much earlier age now than 50 years ago. That has more to do with our media than what's in our food.

I am sure the mercenary, I mean, contractor got a severance package.

The Iraqi probably got a shroud.