I don't really have any context for what exactly the original post is about — I guess some A24 scandal I haven't heard of? — but speaking about age in general, as someone around that mid-20s-ish range, I feel like there's a simultaneous growing infantilization of adults and adultification of children as a result of late crapitalism. I like to call this phenomenon "age soup", the way actual legal adults are so often priced or otherwise shut out of traditional markers of adulthood, at the same time as children are being forced away from child-safe spaces and deprived of typical child things to do, and end up in these surveillance capitalist social media hellscapes where they're marketed to as if they're adults, and exposed to pedos and neo-Nazi recruiters and all sorts of other things that they're just too young for. Basically, the "simultaneous infantilization and adultification" is really just another way of saying that increasingly older people are being increasingly deprived of their independence, and increasingly younger people are being turned into increasingly exploited subjects of capitalist system.

Maybe I'll see things differently a decade from now, but from where I stand, I feel like even many people here are far too willing to buy into this sort of infantilization of adults that's being pushed by the ruling class. And I don't even really know why people here have this tendency to infantilize people my age. I mean, it couldn't be as simple as wanting to see themselves as somehow "above" younger adults, right? I don't think that's it, that doesn't seem in character for most of the people here. And it couldn't be as simple as going when people in their 20s or even 30s can't get jobs, can't afford a car or to move out or anything like that — people on this site are very much aware that things aren't fine, that's literally why we're here. So what is the deal with all the infantilization I see? I mean, surely we all know that all people deserve independence, respect and dignity, that's what we're fighting for. Surely we all know that power dynamics are bound up in tons of different factors which can all be structurally accounted for with some effort.