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Far as I can tell, we are all supposed to like Sandra Bullock. She's a fine actor, nice, down-to-earth and honest. Also, she's 50 years old and a movie star who can headline a movie and get people into theatres to see it.

All admirable qualities in the bizarre celebrity world she inhabits. So it came as a bit of shock to me to discover that Bullock is spewing ridiculous, utterly bogus complaints about "how women are portrayed in the media." Hypocrisy, thy name is Sandra Bullock. What the woman needs is a job in television.

While promoting the new movie Minions, Bullock told the E! channel, "I feel like it's become open hunting season in how women are attacked and it's not because of who we are as people, it's because of how we look or our age. I'm shocked and maybe I was just naive, but I'm embarrassed by it."

Referring to her son, Louis, Bullock said, "My son is getting ready to grow up in this world and I'm trying to raise a good man who values and appreciates women, and here we have this attack on women in the media that I don't see a stop happening."

The issue, I think, is catch-all gender discrimination. In Hollywood, men make more money than women. Older white men run Hollywood. Fewer roles for women above the age of 40. A "media" that blathers on about actresses looking their age.

Bullock's thoughts on the matter, such as they are, come soon after Maggie Gyllenhaal received worldwide attention for this statement: "I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh."

Laughter is the right response. It is laughable that Bullock could make critical comments about "the media" to E!, an outlet that exists solely to offer the most superficial, tacky coverage of all things Hollywood.

It is further laughable that in the same interview Bullock claimed she agreed to being on the cover of People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful Women 2015" issue if, and only if, "I can talk about the amazing women who I find beautiful, which are these women who rise above and take care of business and do wonderful things, and take care of each other. Then I'm more than honoured to be on the cover of this."

Consorting with People magazine and E! in order to make points about ageism and gender discrimination and "the media" is beyond ludicrous.

I mean, it is patently obvious that the older men who run Hollywood like to put money into male-fantasy movies about superheroes, stuff blowing up, saving the world and older men impressing much younger women. But that isn't all there is.

I read about Bullock's bizarre remark in The Hollywood Reporter, which had a feature about Nina Tassler, 58, the president of CBS Entertainment and a self-described "loudmouth feminist."

As the piece points out, half of Tassler's senior executives at CBS are female and one third of her showrunners are women. Patricia Arquette, who made a speech about pay equality at the Oscars, is interviewed and says, "It wasn't my idea to have a middle-aged woman be the lead of the new CSI. That was CBS's idea. They came up with that."

And Tassler isn't the first woman to run a U.S. network. Before her, Nancy Tellem ran CBS, Jamie Tarses was head of ABC and Gail Berman ran Fox in the mid-2000s. Under Tassler, some women at CBS have been the highest-paid showrunners in the industry.

CBS also has a lot of female-centric shows, from sitcoms Mom and Mike & Molly to The Good Wife to Madam Secretary, to name just a few. With the exception of The Good Wife, these are not great TV series. But they exist, are popular and immensely successful. Sandra Bullock might want to check them out. And for roles and serious attention, it might be an idea to look at what premium cable offers.

The idea of women being "attacked" because of "how we look or our age" is ridiculous. That exists inside a little bubble of the entertainment industry, one that Bullock abets by talking to E! and conniving with People magazine. Her best bet would be to act her age, look around and see what is happening in television.

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