Why do people use disrespectful terms for Old people e.g. "old fart/old turd" etc.?
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I don't think calling old people names like that is a term of endearment at all. I spend time with younger people, and they honestly think old people are awful. They don't think old people should be able to drive, that they are "out of touch" with the real world, that they are incompetent, and they take up space. It's nothing but a lack of respect.
Sorry to admit, but I behaved the same way when I was young.
Yes, og...
I remember calling the gray headed ladies "bluehairs",
referring to the bluing agent some salons use to counteract the gray from developing a yellowish gray.
There were many who had too much bluing and their hair had a bluish-purple cast to it.
I've been very snarkily called "grandma" even though I do not have grandchildren. All I could think of was, biotch, you have to go to work tomorrow, I do not. Ah, retirement....
A microaggression that bothers me: "Nobody under (pick age,usually 60), uses (describes good or service)."
It's as though no one young wants to be seen using a product that old people use. I'm not talking pharmaceuticals or medical devices, but activities and consumer goods and services. Cars are the most common reference.
Basically it comes across as seniors are irrelevant, and not somebody you want to be associated with.
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