I have several older family members (75+) who frequently make comments that I find quite offensive.
Examples include saying that women do not cook these days, that children are badly behaved because mothers rush back to work, making negative comments about non white doctors, nurses and hospital staff, and suggesting that a husband leaving his wife is understandable if she gained weight after having children or did not give him enough attention.
Whenever these views are challenged, the response is usually along the lines of "it's their generation" or "they are old fashioned".
I understand that attitudes were different decades ago, but I struggle with the idea that age somehow excuses prejudice. Plenty of people from the same generation manage to treat women and people from different backgrounds with respect.
I am not expecting everyone to have the same opinions, but I do think there is a difference between having traditional views and making derogatory comments about women or other groups of people.
AIBU to think that being elderly explains where some of these attitudes came from, but does not excuse them?