When mature women are cast, their roles often lean on outdated or harmful tropes rather than nuanced agency.
: Roles often default to "the Shrew," "the Golden Ager," or depictions of senility and physical frailty. Older women are four times more likely to be portrayed as "senile" than older men. milfinternal gallery
: Streaming platforms show a similar decline, with major female characters falling from 33% in their 30s to 14% in their 40s. When mature women are cast, their roles often