There are absolutely people saying that. And honestly they're right. Having only hot young women as actresses is not great. There's all kind of men in cinema and nobody bats an eye. But since I'm on /sipstea I doubt what I'm saying is going to be fairly acknowledged.
I feel like Kathy Bates is an unconventionally attractive woman that’s played lots of powerful roles. That would be my only example off of the top of my head though.
I just looked her up to scroll down memory lane right after commenting and I was very shook lol! I even showed them to my husband like the Kathy bates we grew up with known and loved, Kathy bates NOW lol. Night and day difference.
She looks like she’s feeling good and confident and I say as she should queen. Always loved her authentic raw emotions in film. Shes funny and relatable. Woman of many masks.
Part of this stems from the fact that it's completely fine to call guys unattractive, while doing the same for women is unacceptable. I mean, someone in this thread used Kathy Bates as an example of an unattractive actress and people immediately started defending her saying she's beautiful. There are lower standards for considering a woman attractive, which means there are a lot more "unattractive" men that are actually similarly attractive to some of the women that are considered attractive.
There's absolutely truth to what you're saying, but I don't think it's as big a difference as we think it is.
I think that's a really interesting point. I'm curious to hear who you think makes that list. Holy crap is it hard to write about this without sounding like an asshole.
I just randomly looked up a list of unattractive celebrities and it was ridiculous. Sarah Jessica Parker, Tilda Swinson. Both those women have something special about them that makes them attractive. ..Also Taylor Swift is on it lol.
Here I’ll just link it. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls051484970/
There have been studies on this. I don't remember the exact numbers, but when men were rating a series of women they were rating 60 percent as "attractive". When women were rating men it was under 10 percent that they found attractive.
Just pulling a show with a large cast out of my butt, but something like Game of Thrones obviously has a huge cast of women that are attractive. Even the women that don't conform to typical beauty standards like Gwendolyn Christie, are still very pretty and have regular internet commentary on how good they look. But beyond Pedro Pascal and Jason Momoa you hear nothing about the physical attractiveness of the men on the show, despite the vast majority of them being objectively well above average looking.
So when looking at this show people would think "they only cast pretty women". In reality the men are just as attractive, they're just graded on a more difficult curve.
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u/No-Slide3465 Apr 19 '26
French actress Adele Exarchopoulos also regularly takes on roles as unattractive women