‘And Just Like That’ Needs to Stop Enabling Carrie’s Ageism

BETTER WITH AGE

Carrie, like all the women on the “Sex and the City” reboot, needs to drop the self-hatred and take a page from Samantha’s book: Women of all ages are sexy.

A photo illustration with stills from And Just Like That episode 4 showing Carrie Bradshaw, Gloria Steinam, Enid Frick and Seema Patel.
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Max

Throughout Hollywood history, an older actress was often only given a few options for roles: She could play a matron (Doubt), an abhorrent sexual predator (Notes on a Scandal, Misery), or a horror’s hag, a figure that goes as far back in Hollywood’s history as 1950’s Sunset Boulevard and still...

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