Oscar’s Ageism

[SusanCalvin]

With recent protests being particularly embarrassing to the Academy, AMPAS has now moved to try deal with what they perceive to be their “too many voting old white men” problem.

But they’re doing it in exactly the wrong way, exchanging their existing diversity problems for outright ageism.

Rather than changing their membership and voting rules going forward for new members in a manner that would encourage racial and other diversity, they’ve decided to try cull their oldest members — some in their 90s who have been Academy members for many decades and have always played by the rules — by stripping them of their Oscar voting rights.

While this obviously does not rise to the level of the kind of rampant workplace ageism and discrimination as reported recently by The New York Times, it still is a slap in the face to loyal, older AMPAS members who have done absolutely nothing wrong, and is yet another example of society kicking older persons in the gut as an ostensible “quick fix” solution for complex structural problems.

https://lauren.vortex.com/2016/09/07/oscars-ageism-and-societys-disposable-workers

[Loki Liesmith]

1. In an industry where you are paid to have people

Look at you, age related bias is going to happen. Mitigating that bias is possible. Doubt that removing it is.

[SusanCalvin]

2. These aren't necessarily (or even probably, I am guessing),

People who are *in* the movies at this point. They are longstanding members of the Academy.