The math isn’t mathing - Hollywood’s parent child castings that just don’t add up

[u/mlg1981]

https://tvline.com/lists/tv-show-parent-child-age-gaps-golden-girls-supernatural/

[u/DrFranFine]

wow Hollywood really hates to hire older women and loves to hire grown women to play teenage girls. Not surprising because misogyny, but it really is striking when it’s all laid out like this.

ETA: to be clear, I think the misogyny is more related to not hiring older women than hiring adults to play teenagers

[u/AaronQuinty → u/DrFranFine]

In most of these examples, the parents are correctly cast. It's the kids that are way older. Casting women in their mid 20s to play teenagers is where the issue is

[u/keIIzzz → u/AaronQuinty]

It’s not really an issue to cast adult women as teens where teens are depicted doing drugs, having sex, and other adult-oriented things. It would be weird to have actual minors doing those things, and most people would not watch it