Why would 54 year old Salma play a woman wanting to have a baby?
In latino culture, she's a grandmother to teenagers.
shareSame reason you're such a racist asshole; it was in the script.
shareRacist? Because I believe in historical representation?
shareThat ignorance is depressing
shareI think you made a point of making it about race. Sure, historically many women of many cultures were grandmothers to teens in their 50s. Historically, there are many women of many cultures who were still having babies when their children were having babies.
I just want to know what business is it of yours when a woman decides to want to have a baby, regardless of her latino culture or not?? Unless you are the baby's father, I'd say none.
Nature. Research indicates that about 90% of a woman's eggs are dead by the time she turns 30, making having a baby past the age of 50 an incredibly rare phenomenon. But, we already knew that without looking at any research. The movie was good without that aspect, and I think they may have included it just for the adoption joke at the end.
Again, it doesn't matter what the odds of conception are, it's the fact that the OP is questioning why she would want one.
shareNo, I think the OP was questioning why the writers would interject that plot point when it does seem rather odd.
shareThen the OP should have said that instead of asking why Salma would want to play that character.
shareFirst you say "it's the fact that the OP is questioning why she would want one."
Then you completely changed your mind on what the OP said went you wrote "Then the OP should have said that instead of asking why Salma would want to play that character."
You got it wrong twice, because OP said neither of those things that you claim were said. The subject line is only one sentence and the topic is only one additional sentence. You only had to read and comprehend two sentences, which is obviously an impossible task for you.
Well, my first comment was about the character because I was replying to Intothenight's reply to molkirouat so I wasn't really commenting on the OP.
Then when PrimeMinisterX was trying to explain to me what Intothenight meant in his original OP, I responded to that comment, and not the OP. But thanks.
My response to the OP would be
"Salma can play any role she wants to play regardless of what you think."
>>>> Research indicates that about 90% of a woman's eggs are dead by the time she turns 30, <<<<
Fascinating. My mother must have beat the odds. She conceived 5 children (one, unfortunately miscarried) all after the age of 30. She was 38 when she had my sister (the youngest) and the miscarriage, which didn't happen until she was nearly 7 months pregnant, was when she was nearly 40.
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Thats really not true. The egg loss is quite linear. While at 30 a lot of of the eggs are lost, its not even half, let alone 90%. Also egg loss is irrelevant to fertility. The eggs get produced during puberty and get stored for life. Its not a numbers game as it is with sperm count.
shareHow is OP's statement racist? 1. Do you consider it bad for a 54 year old woman to be a grandmother of teenagers? 2. It's actually a pretty accurate statement. I live in a Latin-majority town and most of my relatives by marriage are Latin and I would say the majority of 54-year-olds I know here are indeed grandparents to teenagers. It's traditional in that culture to marry and have kids young. I don't think you know what the word racist really means.
shareThank you. Mom has kid at 19, kid has hers at 21, guess what? By 54 she's a grandmother to teens.
My puerto rican neighbor turned 40 and also became a grandfather that year too.
At 54 he will be the grandfather to a 14 year old.
Everything is racist these days..
To your point yes even here in Africa you can end up a grandparent very young. Just own it man. Whites maybe have kids when their balls sag whatever. Stop looking for race in everything. We all grew up differently.
Oh, enough of the racist crap. Latino isn't a race it is an ethnicity. I've known Mexican's that were fair skinned, blond and blue eyed as well as some that were as dark as a person from India. As for her age, it would be an issue regardless of what race she was supposed to be in the movie. Women in their 50's don't generally have the option to squirt out rugrats unless they are doing some massive fertility treatments. On the one hand she doesn't look like a 50 year old... looks more like someone in their 40's but still that would be making having kids a much more difficult thing to have happen.
shareReally, in any culture 54-years-old is quite old to be having a child.
shareThey mentioned culture, not race.
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