It’s really popular to shit on young people, it’s pretty much Bill Maher’s entire routine these days.

I think it’s misguided. All the things that have led to this - education budgets being cut, universities charging extortionate fees, tech ruining attention spans, general malaise because of climate change, increasing wealth inequality, lack of affordable access to mental health care, offshoring of good manufacturing jobs, and so on. These things were mostly the result of the actions of boomers, and they’re the ones still running the show.

Those same boomers who love to shit on young people.

Never have “ok, boomer” been more appropriate.

Before you get annoyed with Foster over a cherry picked BBC article, read the much more in depth Guardian piece they lifted quotes from. It’ll give you much more context.

R e t i r e then FFS

I’m impressed she actually got them to do any work.

It’s just a generation gap. It’s been happening since time out of mind. Take this quote:

Speaking about the advice she’d give to young people in the industry, she said: "They need to learn how to relax, how to not think about it so much, how to come up with something that’s theirs.

If you haven’t read the story yet, it’s not clear who said it. That could be from or about anyone. It’s good advice for anyone.

Maybe Foster has a different opinion about some things, but she’s not being rude or nasty. Different things are important to different generations, and that’s okay.

Old, rich celebrity hates adapting to changing social dynamics. Film at eleven.

I think ageism is going to be the final frontier of prejudice. I see folks who advocate for every other kind of acceptance just absolutely bash older generations and vice versa. Nothing unites us quite like our disdain for people who aren’t roughly the same age as us.

But the truth is we’re all equally shitty. If some divinity snapped its fingers and swapped entire generations through time, none of us would do any better or worse than the generations whose place we were taking the place of.

I just wish we could collectively do less finger pointing and more collaborative problem solving.

Former child star getting old. More at 11.

There is a long history of generation gaps. We tend to forget that young people are observing us, but not just to mimic us. To learn from us in many different ways. They’ll take our principles and ideas and push them further, they’ll branch out in new directions when new directions become available, they try to succeed in places where we failed.

This can all be discomfiting when taken together, but it’s exactly what most parents generally want, deep down–for them to have a better life than we did. We can’t really help it if the nuts and bolts of that are uncomfortable and, if we’re being honest, completely terrifying sometimes. In the end though, it comes down to faith. If you raised them right … you might just have to trust them. Not to be perfect and always do the right thing, but to grow, learn from their own mistakes just like we did, and ultimately carve their own path.

We can’t hold them back, trying will only result in strife. This is a key part of how we evolve as social organisms, it’s part of what makes us so adaptable to all the different environments and circumstances of this world. If they always just came out as carbon copies, we wouldn’t be able to accomplish all the stuff we do, as entire civilizations.

We’re gonna need a free and intact world to hand down to them, though, if they’re going to have any kind of real shot at success.

To bring this back to Jodie, if it were an older co-star, would she react the same? Ageism cuts both ways, and when I hear of an actor not showing up on set on time, my first instinct is “douchebag celebrity”, not “kids these days”.

To young people, we do envy you. Time can be an implacable foe, and we’re much closer to face-to-face with it. We do remember what it felt like, and we miss certain parts of it. The same part of a person that wishes they could redo parts of their life, when it looks at your decisions, can become hyper-judgemental. Try to avoid that one, when you get around to being older yourselves. It’s natural, but not unavoidable or anything. It doesn’t have many benefits either, being hyper-judgemental seldom does, outside of a courtroom anyway.

You can just stop working with them. Or in general. No one will notice.