This Response to Russell Crowe's "Female Actors Need to Act Their Age" Comment is Awesome

Apparently actor Russell Crowe is sick of women in Hollywood of a certain age complaining that certain roles "dry up" for them more easily than their male counterparts. Crowe is now coming under fire for the comments made in The Australian Women's Weekly, in which he notes that females should not expect to play ingenues once they entered into their 40's:

"To be honest, I think you'll find that the woman who is saying that (the roles have dried up) is the woman who at 40, 45, 48, still wants to play the ingénue, and can’t understand why she's not being cast as the 21 year old...I have heard of an actress, part of her fee negotiation was getting the number of children she was supposed to have lessened. Can you believe this? This (character) was a woman with four children, and there were reasons why she had to have four children – mainly, she lived in a cold climate and there was nothing to do but fornicate all day -  so quit arguing, just play the role."

Nothing can warm up a cold night like some good old-fashioned fornication. However, as my glance shifts to my window here in Baltimore, where the snow is falling unremittingly (it's like an influx of God's dandruff at this point...if God has dandruff...I digress...) I realize that a sweater can also suffice. I wonder if said actress would agree.

Jezebel contributor, Rebecca Rose, had more than a few rejoinders for Mr. Crowe's remarks (the title of her post was "Always Full of Sh** Russell Crowe Says Actresses Should Act Their Age" to preface):

"Strange how in an industry where actors vehemently defend people like Jared Leto playing a trans character or white actors cast as non-white characters on the grounds that acting is about stepping outside of your physical barriers it's such an affront to consider that women be allowed to step outside of their actual ages...Funny how Crowe doesn't bother to offer any opinion about the mind boggling legacy of Hollywood men playing romantic leads to women 10,20, 30, and sometimes 40 (!!!!!) years younger than them. Because it's clearly the sad old women daring to pretend they are outside their actual birth ages that are ruining Hollywood."

I'm going to have to give these sentiments an emphatic "AMEN!" Another gal who is with me on that would be my ever-so-lovely friend Jessica Baroody. After the story broke, she posted this quip to Facebook:

Case in point: