Age is funny thing isn't it? I just read a article where an actress lost a court case with Amazon who owns some internet film database or similar that lists actor/actress film list info including d.o.b. She didn't like potential employees knowing how old she was given the ageist nature of the film industry. The defending company argued that what others did with the info was not their responsibility, won the case and therefore will not delete her dob. The interesting bit for me was that she originally gave her age as being 7 years younger than she really was, but after she asked for it to be removed, they looked up her real age and put that on instead giving her the double whammy of not only seeing he age in 'lights' but also not being able to hide behind a 7 years younger version.
I read enough about the film industry not wanting to find roles for older women (whatever 'older' means) so I can sympathise with her view, but surely acting like all other jobs uses a range of selection criteria like for instance how good you are at acting.
Went for a 1500m swim last night. My arms felt really tired at first but improved as I got into it. It's been about 3 weeks since the last time so quite happy with that.
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