Actress Jodie Foster, known for her role as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs and who stars in the upcoming fourth season of HBO’s True Detective series, recently shared that television and her disordered relationships had negative effects on her sons.

Foster had two sons with female film producer Cydney Bernard before they split up in 2008. She then entered into a relationship with photographer Alexander Hedison. Thus the two boys have been raised by two women for their entire lives.

Foster commented on how this was detrimental to them learning what it means to be male in an interview with The Guardian, “My two don’t like sports. They like to watch movies and sit at home, and they’re really into their female friends. They’re super feminist. And there was a moment with my older one when he was in high school, when, because he was raised by two women – three women – it was like he was trying to figure out what it was to be a boy.”

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She continued, “And he watched television and came to the conclusion, oh, I just need to be an asshole. I understand! I need to be shitty to women, and act like I’m a f***er.”

Foster then relayed, “And I was like, no! That’s not what it is to be a man! That’s what our culture has been selling you for all this time.”

According to The Guardian’s Emma Brockes, this “phase went on for six months.” Foster did note that she did not let her son talk her like that, “I was like, you won’t be talking to me like that.” She did not elaborate any further.

Not only did Foster reveal that her lesbian relationship and television was detrimental to her son understanding and learning what it means to be male and masculine, but she also offered some harsh criticism for Generation Z.

Generation Z also known as the Zoomers are individuals born between 2001 and 2011. Foster said of them, “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’”

She went on to offer another example, “Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

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Foster’s confession about how her relationships and Hollywood’s influence via television is enlightening. It confirms Catholic social teaching as espoused by Pope Benedict in 2010, “Certainly, it is precisely the family, founded on marriage between a man and a woman, which is the greatest help that can be given to children. They want to be loved by a mother and a father who love one another, and they need to dwell, grow and live together with both parents, because the maternal and paternal figure are complementary in the education of children and in the construction of their personality and their identity.”

He added, “Hence, it is important that everything possible is done to make them grow in a united and stable family.”

St. Pope John Paul II also warned about the growing influences of television back in 1980 during his message for the 14th World Communications Day.

He said, “it is wise to be alert to the growing influence which the mass media, and especially television, are exercising on the developing minds of the young, particularly as regards their vision of man, of the world and of relationships with others; for the vision furnished them by the media often differs profoundly from that which the family would wish to transmit to them.”

He would go on to mention, “Parents, in many cases, do not show sufficient concern about this. Generally, they pay vigilant attention to the type of friends with whom their children associate, but do not exercise a similar vigilance regarding the ideas which the radio, the television, records, papers and comics carry into the ‘protected’ and ‘safe’ intimacy of their homes.”

“And so the mass media often enter the lives of the youngest members of the family with no possibility of the necessary explanations or corrections from parents or other educators which could neutralize any harmful elements and which could equally employ the many valuable aspects to assist in the process by which children are gradually transformed into well-adjusted men and women,” he said.

Television and films are definitely attempting to influence the way individuals think and that’s why repugnant and immoral messaging from many of these Hollywood studios must be rejected. Jodie Foster provides a perfect example that the influence of television on top of her disordered relationship significantly harmed at least one of her sons.

What do you make of Jodie Foster’s comments?

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