Jada Pinkett Smith: Would You, Still?

Short of being really, really insulting to toned women ’round the world and saying, ‘F-ck no!’ and blaming it on the fact that she looks like a piece of dried-up beef jerky (sinews are just not hot, I’m afraid), I’m going to go ahead and brand a very generic ‘no’ on the above question. Would I, still? No. Absolutely not. As male friends of mine used to say back in the day, ‘not without someone else’s dick.’ Because no. I would never.

Jada Pinkett Smith posted this photo to her Twitter account earlier in the weekend, and captioned it:

To my Forty and over crew! Don’t believe the hype… we DO get better with age!

And of course, I don’t mean to go raining on aging ladies’ parades or anything, because I don’t think it’s an age issue at all, or even a fitness issue, like Jada’s made it out to be. No, it’s just that Jada and her exercising-five-days-a-week and all that not eating for pleasure just doesn’t strike me as all that attractive, personally, and flaunting herself like she’s the be-all, end-all of what people should look like after forty is just absurd. It’s like, come on. Not *everyone* wants to look like … well, this, when they’re “forty and over.” Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with it, but it’s like saying “all women should be curvy,” or “all women should be thin.” It’s just not reality for some people.

Naturally, it goes without saying that Jada Pinkett Smith just isn’t one of my favorite Hollywood people, but come on. Sweeping statements just aren’t all that applicable anymore, you know?

So, whatever. Jada Pinkett Smith—would you, still?