to think MNHQ have double standards?

[JenniferJo]

If a thread is racist, sexist, homophobic or disablist then MNHQ leap in and delete offensive posts, comment on the thread and (often) delete the entire thread.

Yet ageist threads are allowed to continue for days. Doesn't seem right to me.

Oh come on - age matters, if it didn't there wouldn't be life insurance especially for the over 50's ( with a free Parker pen just for enquiring ) there wouldn't be services ( including health ) especially aimed at the under 25's or the elderly, there wouldn't be the endless age related consumer products. Plus the minimum wage is age related.

Unless you're saying all people over 75 should be shot, then I can't see a massive problem. It's illegal to discriminate on age in the job market ( although many employers still do ) so asking 'am I too old for skinny jeans at 50' isn't a big deal.

I think it is a big deal. There's also a massive difference between marketing products to different age groups that relate to specific needs, and discriminating between people on the basis of age.

So as a 50+ person I may need some kind of insurance policy based on my age/health. But whether or not I should wear skinny jeans is irrelevant. What does my age have to do with that?

You need to engage your brain and powers of intellect a little more rigorously

I need to pack for my holiday that's what I need to do.

Oh, & you're never too old for skinny jeans. Never. :-)

And the lazy assumptions often made about older people's beliefs and attitudes have already been outlined on this thread.

What BIWI said.

When a poster asks should I wear skinny jeans/long hair/dare to show my post-35 face in public, it's quite different from those who post frothing with disgust at dinner ladies' arms on those who dare to wear short-sleeved garments in hot weather.

The ones I detest the most are those who criticise the crepey cleavage on show.

Utter, utter twats.

To be fair, I haven't seen these lately. I hope a reformed consciousness has arrived.

On MN it is generally derogatory as in 'the old biddy on the bus'- a chapter heading they actually used themselves. The age of the person is utterly irrelevant to the comment and 'old' is generally not old anyway. I am 63yrs- and I am not old!

The only time I even muse about a MNers age is on the "old bag looked at my bubba" threads. Then I know the OP is in her early 20s and her own mother is probably my age.

That's my theory of why they think it's OK to use the old-bag shit. Because their own mothers are only middle aged. and their grandmothers are probably so mortified by their behaviour they have nothing to do with them

I am almost 49 and in leggings, shall I shoot myself right now or wait to be told I should be ashamed of myself?

Me? 38. Not presently fitting young or old. Rather hideous no mans land! Middle aged. Lovely. Always wanted to be 'middle' humph.

There is ageism definitely here. I didn't say there wasn't. I just said that sometimes age can assist the debate not hinder it.

There's also regionalism. Quite marked regionalism. That's allowed by mnhq. Reported several threads making very derogatory comments on Estuary English. And Northern. As nothing mentioned a more generally accepted ism it wasn't taken seriously. But sometimes it assists debate to know where a persons from.