I have a lot of Opinions

A terrible thing is when someone says something racist and then goes "ah WHAT I didn't realise that was racist what are you the thought police." Like of course they knew it was racist.
People are not that dumb; generally they know when they are being shitty and mean. Like I do sort of know, deep down, that it's a bit sexist and ageist of me to wish more than anything that everyone would stop making such a giant fucking deal about what a Total Babe Helen Mirren is. Like at the Oscars last year, or maybe the year before, or some other amount of years ago. It was my absolute worst. There were lots and lots of really extremely beautiful women there , with really seriously amazing dresses, and all anyone talked about was what a just complete sexpot and dreamboat Helen Mirren looked like. Lots of people going "Ah, and if there was an award for Most Beautiful, it would surely go to Helen Mirren." No it would NOT that is PRETEND.

I don't get it. She is quite pretty, it's true, but WHY must everyone keep insisting that, all evidence to the contrary, she is the steamiest woman alive. Why must they do it why why why why it drives me mental.
and every interview with her ever mentions the Naughty Glint in her eye and her frank approach to sexuality. It's so kitsch that she has become the sort of figurehead for that thing called There Is Still Life After Sixty.
Like of COURSE there's still life after sixty, for god's sake. It sucks that anyone ever needs to be "reminded" of that or whatever, because it should go without saying ,but I do understand that there is a need to make a thing out of it, sometimes. It is true that we live in an age-obsessed society with a very rigid idea of what constitutes beauty etc etc etc. OF COURSE THAT IS TRUE. and of course that is shit, and it needs to change. HOWEVER. I don't think the way to effect that change is to insist that what every red-blooded man desperately wants is to sleep with Helen Mirren. I do not think it is the case that every man's secret fantasy is to have Helen Mirren's horrible old lizard eyes staring at them in the dark.
It's not the worst thing in the world, obviously, but it is starting to drive me right up the wall.