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Ageism,ignorance, intolerance. class bias on mumsnet re Waspi women

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CAJIE · 20/12/2024 00:27

I did not honestly expect any compensation though I might have hoped. Iwas aware of this change but did not have the chance to make extra provision for it.I do have a professional pension but will have to wait a while longer for the state pension which is extremely challenging.My plans were changed by covid and I doubt I will be employed again except possibly on poor and temporary contracts or gig economy.Secondary school supply on a daily basis has more or less gone.
However what appals me is the attitudes of many mumsnetters who assume that everyone has the abiity to understand pensions and that the Waspi women should have taken so called control of their situation.Maybe some could but there is a hell of a lot of class bias towards the women in lower paid jobs who perhaps were overwhelmed by struggling to survive and did not understand or read the news or the pension changes were not clearly explained to them.Pensions can be hard to understand and provoke anxiety.This appalling prejudice that all older people are rolling in it and this nice habit of some younger women to be sadly quite misogynistic and ageist towards women who are in poverty is very concerning.All sections of society should thrive even in older age and perhaps you younger women should be challenging society, housing costs, the whole ideology of owning a house and actually trying to build something new rather than bitching about what boomers have and their endless cruises etc.
.You are turning against your sex and the comments are cruel and harsh.You know nothing about these womens lives.
Starmer wants to punish older people and older women are always a good target.Your spite about all the things that boomers are supposed to have and you apparently dont is unpleasant.Women beware women.Very sad and against justice.

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nepkoztarsasag · 20/12/2024 00:41

How did you vote in the Brexit referendum as a matter of interest?

What relevance does that have to the OP ..very odd comment!
Who did you vote for in GE as a matter of interest?

WearyAuldWumman · 20/12/2024 00:44

I've seen much the same on Twitter, where there have been various barbed comments about "white middle-class women". Most of the WASPIs that I know are working class women who were not allowed to have equal pay in the earlier years of their working life and had no ability to pay into a works pension.

natwalesrug · 20/12/2024 00:42

I do understand the gist of this. Am a similar age and definitely was ignorant about pensions because my husband was in a high income job. I am ex NHS so have a decent pension and now working as a Registered Nurse in a care home. The pension is rubbish and I do worry about how the low income workers will manage .
It really does worry me .

nepkoztarsasag · 20/12/2024 00:41

How did you vote in the Brexit referendum as a matter of interest?