Depending on your level of cynicism, you were either shocked or blasé when 37-year-old Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that a Hollywood producer told her she was too old to play the love interest of a 55-year-old actor. What may still shock is how comfortable male-dominated Hollywood is with May/December romances -- when the older party, sometimes way older, is a man. Or how long it's been going on.

Comedian Amy Schumer took a stab at Hollywood's double standard regarding gender, age and romantic leads in her scathing "Inside Amy Schumer" skit about three actresses celebrating the last day Julia Louis-Dreyfus is considered sexually attractive. Talking about Hollywood's decision-makers (largely men) Dreyfus says gratefully, "No one was more surprised than me that they let me stay f------- throughout my forties and the fact that it continued into my fifties. I thought 'US Weekly' made a clerical error."

When Schumer asks, "Who tells men when it’s their last f------- day?" Dreyfus and her friends, Patricia Arquette and Tina Fey, laugh heartily. "Honey, men don’t have that day," says Arquette. Evidence below.

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Twenty five of the largest age gaps on-screen that break the "half your age plus seven" rule. The rule, which is used to find the youngest socially acceptable age one can date works by dividing you age and adding seven. So Colin Firth, who was 54 in ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ should date no one younger than 34. Emma Stone was only 26 when the movie premiered. International Business Times/Hanna Sender
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It seems Hollywood still deems these men, all over forty, f---able International Business Times/Hanna Sender