To think that the attitude to older people, particularly older women on Mumsnet .....

[seeker]

......is utterly shameful, shows mumsnetters in a very bad lightand should be challenged more and harder?

Can you give us an example, seeker?

I don't think there is such a thing as 'a mumsnet attitude' to anything - there is a wide range of opinions and attitudes. I do agree with you though that the attitude of some posters (and the attitude of some people in general) to older people, especially older women, is appalling.

And I should have name changed before posting that.

I am older.
What are you all doing to me?

Dunno Norks. What would you like?

Haven't got a clue what you are on about. I didn't even know we were aware of each others ages in general.

Link to where you have seen it?

Norks - as an 'older' person you should be sat in your rocking chair knitting, not using the internet!! Shocking, it is.

How old is anyone here? I have no idea - and care even less!

I agree Seeker. Enjoy the beach tomorrow.

Ps. what age is older?? just so i can check that i don't qualify as 'older' just yet...

i am older.

people here have been horrible to me but a) i think they don't agree with me (and the greatest crime according to mumsnetters is not to take the mass view) or b) i could always log out and go and do something else. i cut my message board teeth on christian websites and there are no bitchier places in the universe.

its a fast moving board and interesting in its way.

there's a lot of people here need 'telling'. once you've told them, your duty is discharged - they've been given the choice, they can take it or leave it.
what i think is actually wrong here is the bullying, and that isn't just of older people. you're going to ask for examples now, so let me say that when i see it again, i'll point it out.

if you're thinking of mother in laws - some of them deserve it. my ex-mil got right on my nerves today at her great-grandaughter's christening. daughter and her dad are estranged but the great-grandma chose to mention him - she could have really upset my baby on her big day, when her own baby was being initiated into our community.

It's like the plot from Lost in here tonight

I am an older bird. I don't think I have been discriminated against. I have actually seen been guilty of more "oh you are young, you will soon learn..." type of posts, tbh

I haven't got a rocking chair and can only just manage to knit hats for Innocent Smoothies.

I have not noticed anyone being nasty to me. Perhaps I need to put in my ear trumpet.
I takes as I finds.

What is all this about then?

Jumping, you said that knowing the older ones here won't have seen it, didn't you? That's bullying!

where? what happened? let me at em

I challenged it today and got shouted down.

Um. I suppose my username is a bit of a giveaway regarding age and I have mentioned it myself a couple of times, but I can't say that I've noticed any shameful attitude towards me because of it.

Amy examples, OP? It's not like I've been told to piss off to Gransnet or anything...

I'm 165. If you give me attitude, I am quite likely to pelt you with werther's originals, if you come close enough.

I've lost count of the number of old bag/cow posts I've read on MN TBH.

Sometimes you do get the impression that a poster might be very young but I think that's pretty rare. I just don't even wonder how old anyone is 99.9 of the time - why would you? Neither wisdom or fuckwittery have age limits!

Do you mean the endless MIL bashing seeker?

But I've never seen an old bag/old cow post that hasn't been jumped on and challenged (except possibly discussion of vintage handbags in S&B).

I don't think the majority of mn thinks your past it at 50 though.

I remember thinking that when I was 13, maybe the school kids have invaded

I have no idea how old anybody is, but maybe the OP isn't referring to the treatment of older members of MN. It's more the remarks about horrible nosey dried-up old bats that you see dotted liberally around the place.