“By the time your kids are in their 20s, both their parents will be in a nursing home or dead.”
The reason behind this is, of course,and the deeply misogynistic views we have on fertile women. Women who do want kids are expected to pop them out as soon as they hit their late 20s and early 30s. Any earlier and people think it was a “mistake”, any later and we’re throwing around “geriatric” left, right and centre. This is why the term “past her prime” is almost exclusively given to women who show any signs of ageing.
If I were to give an energy to the reaction to Pacino and De Niro becoming fathers in their - let’s be honest - elder years, it would be all high school locker room fist and chest bumps. There would be a lot of jeering and pats on the back. The energy towards Swank, however, is more the girl who’s outcast for getting pregnant in her teens, because she doesn’t fall into the narrow window society deems is acceptable for women to have a child.
This energy is wildly unmatched and, until women’s bodies and their choices stop being fodder for public scrutiny, I can’t see it balancing out any time soon.
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