To get really pissed off with old ladies telling me my DS 'isn't very happy' when he is crying?

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My 9 month old DS has 'a good pair of lungs', he is also a bit of a drama queen and likes everyone to know how he's feeling, good or bad. I'm not worried by this, or being paranoid, a friend has described him as like an air raid siren going off!

I'm used to this and he rarely has a meltdown when we are out and about but today he was teething badly and I was in town about half an hour before he could have any medication. An old dear looked at him and then me and told me that he wasn't very happy. Really? Do you think I haven't noticed? Just bugger off.

So you'd also use descriptors like "unhelpful black bastards" or "unhelpful disabled bastards"?

Jengnr- would you say "unhelpful black bastards" and if not, why not?

Yes Bertrand

It would be interesting to have a response to that question.

Jengnr- I read your earlier thread and I stand by what I said-you are putting a negative spin on things. Although it can't be nice to be concerned about your child's cough and have people comment on it. Very much doubt though that they are judging you or think you don't care.

Also at lunch time my local supermarket is awash with students and a variety of people of all ages.

I want to add that I appreciate the OP apologizing for the ageism in her posts. In my later exchanges with MNHQ, I agreed that the remarks did not need to be deleted because they were addressed on the thread. Thanks, OP.

I have reported you, Misbegotten, for your use of the disablist term 'cretin', and were it not for the fact that certain posters on here are busy hounding someone else for her 'ageism' I am absolutely positive they would have done the same.

I liked the fact that OP apologised- although it won't be realised by many who don't read the whole thread.

Cretin is unacceptable. Disabilism isn't any more acceptable than ageism.

purdiepie why have you put ageism in inverted commas?

Really? I disagree. And no, I won't qualify that.

Any prejudice unacceptable-both towards people with disabilities and older people. Ageism isn't somehow less serious.

What won't you qualify? Why is ageism in inverted commas?

Because I don't think Jengnr has a broad hatred for the elderly. And I think the rest of you know that perfectly well, but her post gave you the perfect excuse to bring out your tired stream of outraged indignancies.

cretin
A Person that is: brainless, stupid, child-like, and full of pointless information that makes no sense and appeals only to other cretins. They can be found in abundance in every single populated internet forum, where they race to post as many mind-numbing messages as possible in a single session. In addition, they seemingly interbreed with other cretins, ensuring that their cretinous genes continue long after they end up dead meaning the Internet will never be rid of their kind. More's the pity.

report away

Don't understand your post purdiepie. Do you mean other forms of discrimination are worse than ageism and its okay to hold someone up to ridicule because they are old?

Glad someone reported cretin- although it is so old fashioned now I suspect most people don't know what it means.

I asked Jengnr a question which she hasn't been back to answer.

Her comments were ageist whether she has a broad hatred for the elderly or not.

They weren't being held up.for ridicule in Jengnr's post for being old. In fact, they weren't being ridiculed at all.

Yes I reported cretin too.

It seems that some people though don't realise thst age is a protected characteristic and that all forms of discriminatory language are equally unacceptable.

Sooty, I know it will be insufferable for you to hear this but, not everyone feels the need to answer your questions; we do not all crumble under your almighty glare.

They were being insulted and their behaviour was linked to their age by the use of descriptors. She hasn't returned to tell us whether she'd talk about unhelpful black bastards.