Photo: Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Disney
Over on TikTok, people are just now discovering that you can have an amazing rack at any age. They have come to this realization thanks to a video posted by Disney of Jamie Lee Curtis promoting Freakier Friday, and a lot of them are being really weird about it.
In the video, Curtis earnestly implores viewers to see the sequel to experience “the same level of nostalgia and joy and laughter and happiness and tears and friendships” as they did the first time around. It seems like this she’s really proud of this movie. However, she’s dressed in one of her character’s costumes, and her cleavage is on display. So that is what nearly all 23,000 comments are about.
The top comments on the video (which has accumulated over 10 million views in a day) are all different reaction images. One features a character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid looking on with a furrowed brow, another shows SpongeBob looking up as a breastlike shadow looms over him, and one is a woman screaming as another woman presses her chest to a car window. When using text, the comments don’t get any better. “Where did THOSE come from,” one user asked. “Oh it’s freakier alright,” said another. One person just wrote, “JAMIE LEE MILKERS.”
Curtis does look great, but everyone acting like a cartoon dog with its tongue dragging on the floor needs to be put in time-out. This is what happens when TikTok convinces a large swath of Gen Z that women become haggard ghouls after they turn 30, and they don’t realize that being a smoke show knows no age. There is no reason to be writing, as one commenter did, “Just because there’s wrinkles on the wrapper don’t mean the candy ain’t sweet.”
There has to be a better way to be body positive toward women in their 60s. Maybe we need to bring back a respectful “AwoOOoga” or a “Va-va-VOOM.” Perhaps a simple “Wow!” if you’re shy. If you are one of the thousands of people who commented horny things about Curtis, it’s time to do some reflecting. If you are one of the millions of people who saw the video and thought, Holy moly, she looks good, but kept it to yourself: Feel free to carry on.
Stay in touch.
Get the Cut newsletter delivered daily
Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice
Related