Justine Bateman: Your Age is Being Weaponized
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Justine Bateman (writer, director, producer, author) joins us to address society’s fears about aging especially when it comes to females, how she unpacks her irrational fears in order to get to the root problem, and concerns about the implementation of artificial intelligence into film and television projects. She breaks down the nuances of wearing makeup, differences between society’s views toward aging between men and women, and her foolproof method for combating fears rooted in our physical insecurities. Mayim breaks down choice feminism and Justine shares what our fears of being an outlier may be rooted in and why she thinks mainstream audiences are one step away from accepting generative A.I.
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| 0:00.0 | What if you had stayed on your path? What if you had done the thing you wanted to do in that moment? |
| 0:08.6 | What would have happened? What what ceiling would have fallen in? And not rhetorically like don't be ridiculous you can act be yourself |
| 0:16.3 | enough is going to happen to you I'm not talking about that I'm saying really give those irrational fears their their time write it out, say it out loud. |
| 0:25.0 | And I find that in doing that, you expose it to the atmosphere and it starts to erode somehow. |
| 0:32.0 | It's like, I swear to God, it's like magic swear to God it's like magic I guarantee you absolutely 100 |
| 0:37.1 | percent you are gonna get free of these things there's something about just |
| 0:42.2 | writing out or saying out loud those |
| 0:44.6 | irrational fears. It somehow if it somehow can't live in the same state after that |
| 0:50.0 | just starts eroding. So let's say you can do the opposite the opposite. You're like, okay, I'm not going to |
| 0:53.5 | I'm not going to be afraid that none of these things are going to happen for me. I'm going to |
| 0:57.3 | trust that things are going to work out. And frankly, as we get older, we should be even more |
| 1:01.0 | trusting because we have more evidence evidence more things to point to say |
| 1:04.4 | oh I thought that was going to be a disaster but it worked out fine. |
| 1:06.5 | It's really helpful to have some sort of spiritual something whether you're going to, it can be God for you or the universe or the |
| 1:18.0 | fucking sun, whatever, to just go, I'm going to be taken care. It's going to be okay. I'm going to be okay. I don't have to be living in this fear that these things aren't going to happen for me ever. |
| 1:30.0 | Or just trusting that things work out. |
| 1:34.0 | Things work out. |
| 1:35.0 | Look at some parts of your life where, moments in your life |
| 1:38.0 | where you thought that was going to be a disaster and |
| 1:40.0 | maybe it was a disaster, but then something came out instead. |
| 1:44.0 | Or that thing you thought, that disaster you thought would happen never happened at all. |
| 1:49.0 | And you spent three months prior to that, just like giving yourself an also. |
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