To ask over 50s to check in to show we are not a separate breed of Mumsnetters

[LaureBerthaud]

COVID has really brought out the ageism on Mumsnet! Over 50s are not an homogeneous group sucking on our Werther's Originals longing for the social centre to re-open so we can resume whist drives and coach trips to outlet stores with a nice cafe attached!

I'm mum to DC who's taking their GCSEs next year and I will have to continue working to support them through uni and because I enjoy working AND I have a mortgage!

So stop trying to lock us down - the economy needs us as taxpayers and consumers!

I am over 50. Key worker but mostly from home; currently working 60 hours a week to keep the plates spinning. One dc still at school, one at college, one at uni, one working and one at home directionless.

I have sorely neglected self care over the pandemic, put on weight, drinking too much, not enough exercise. I need to sort myself out and get back out of the high risk demographic. I already have lung problems after postpartum septicaemia and multiple organ failure 16 years ago. Right now Covid would take my feet from under me given half a chance and I am far to busy to be ill! So I am staying home in spite of the fact I am going bonkers.

57 here, working full time, on the Board of a charity, fitness freak, ran my first half marathon last year, got regular 10k times in top 25% for my age group. Got an 85kg deadlift and 60kg squat.
I’m powered by HRT and the energy that comes from having no fucks left to give.
Adult children, one DGC and one cooking.

I despair of the casual ageism on here and constant references to 1950s housewives. I’m a second wave feminist ffs, as are most of my friends. We wouldn’t stand for half of what many younger women seem to think is normal treatment .

I’m 54 and work in a school in a support role. My whole team is over 50 snd the school would find it very hard to function if we all “left”. I have one DC in sixth form snd one having a gap year who is working.

Covid ICU worker.
Have had Covid and didn't even know it.
Very fit if a bit achey at times. No comorbidities.

We shall both enjoy our freedom then @frumpety

‘ The ageism is terrible on this board and was ignored for quite a while, but it's now treated nearly the same as other discrimination.’

Oh so true. I had to file down the gnashers as I was tempted to nip the ankles of the blatant ageism, particularly during the most heated threads in the COVID storm earlier this year.

One particularly irritating & nasty MNetter (nothing personal luv) claimed to be surrounded by old people cluttering up her bit of Cornwall, possibly the county in SW with the pop. rate of elders.

Don’t let fact cloud yer judgement.

Smiles and waves at all the other 'Elderly MNers'

53. Single. Never married. No children. Having the time of my life.

Novice bodybuilder and owner of super sparkly bikinis. First competition next year

Me, I'm over 50.
Just literally walked in the door from work having left home at 6.45am this morning. Critical worker during pandemic - although not front line NHS or anything harrowing. Having a bite and a bit of mumsnet then bed ready to do it all again tomorrow (and Saturday).
I am sick to death of the nastiness and division on some threads.
All over 50s to be locked up and stripped of their homes/savings/jobs/pensions.
Get. To. Fuck.

I’m (just) 52, work full time, one at uni and one in Y13. Fitter than most I work with who are at least 10 yrs younger. Don’t look my age and def not beckoning on retirement any time soon! Just about to be divorced and feeling like my life is starting over not drawing to a close 😂

Hi, 65 years old (gasp!). Worked all through lockdown as NHS admin person. Still alive and kicking! My OH and I both had the virus, me fairly mildly, him quite badly. We got through, as did friends our age who contracted it. Still working, don’t forget the retirement age has risen to 66 this year, so people my age have to carry on. Sadly may be less available for babysitting now !

51, two school age teenagers. Main earner one of the mythical high earning mumsnetters who does something in the City.

Currently studying a whole new area in my spare time for the fun of it and considering if I do another degree.

Fuck the Werthers and tartan slippers.

I’m 60 and proud of it. Retired early at 55 to help look after my mum. Took up running at 57 and will run my second half marathon in a week or so. Two happy children in their mid-late twenties. Feeling younger each year and my body stats back this up. More socially distanced friends than I ever had in my earlier years. Happily married second time round.

I'm over 50. I work full time with small children. My daughter is at uni. I am a ltd company director and got nothing during the last lockdown, so I hope they don't do that again, or stop me working. I still have a mortgage to pay.

@TheWordWomanIsTaken

Me, I'm over 50. Just literally walked in the door from work having left home at 6.45am this morning. Critical worker during pandemic - although not front line NHS or anything harrowing. Having a bite and a bit of mumsnet then bed ready to do it all again tomorrow (and Saturday). I am sick to death of the nastiness and division on some threads. All over 50s to be locked up and stripped of their homes/savings/jobs/pensions. Get. To. Fuck.

Perfectly said. The spiteful and vicious bleating from a section of the posters on this site is sickening. As is the sluggish response to ageism by mumsnet. Yup. Over 50. No children. Prefer gin to werthers. And prefer creative swearing to knitting and coach trips. Paying my dues, paying my own way, pay all my taxes (unlike Amazon) just started my own business prior to Covid striking, saved the government a fortune caring for parents and step parents. Obeyed the lockdown rules to help others. Thought we were all part of society. Never objected to helping or supporting others. But I fucking well do now after the crap spouted by the bitter sows that poison mumsnet. I can only hope they lead by example and have taught their offspring just how contemptuously they expect to be treated when they hit 50.

Hello fellow 50+ s . I'm 50 with a 15 year old y11 and 14 year old y10 . I work as a TA and am fit and healthy. Have a mortgage and bills to pay. I like a good night out and feel no different to when I was 30.

I laugh when I see these posts suggesting the young people get on with running the country and saving the economy whilst the rest of us put our feet up at home. Maybe because we all look so youthful people don't realise just how many of us there are

I console myself in thinking no matter how crap things get we had the time of our lives in the 80's and 90's and it wasnt always cushy either!

🙋‍♀️ Over 51 here - discovered MN nearly 18 years ago when dd was born. Such a valuable resource, I hope the young’uns on here benefit in the same way I did. Less sharp humour here nowadays, but that‘s possibly because the site is so large. Spend more time on FWR nowadays.

And I clearly like the word nowadays...

I'm a ltd co director who got nothing too, had a very successful business before that, now it's bumping along and I'm using savings, if I can't work I'll lose my house. Early 50s, I have a teenage DD and I'm the main carer for my DM. Life is pretty hard stuck in the middle with little time to think of myself, but I'm fit and run and swim. I get sick of some younger people having no idea about the history of social change and how much earlier generations fought for and won, it's like we have no life beyond their stereotypes, but actually it's them making sexist, ageist and heterosexist assumptions about me.

Crikey...I’ve not seen posts complaining about the over 50s! How rude, we’ve still got 17 years left at work, paying tax. And I still wear skinny jeans 😀. I thought it was the over 70s Mumsnet hated as obviously they’re contributing nothing to society.....

50 - still working - single mum of 3 aged 11,16 and 18 - busy busy busy and in no way dead yet!

oh I also like to go out and have fun, I have great tits, like skinny jeans, run, ride and boot camp, my libido is showing no signs of lagging, and I like drill music

Checking in. Over 50, children nearly grown up. Still working, ft, still having a full and active life including plenty of shagging.

Single handed catamaran sailor and underwater adventurer here.
Doing 100 cartwheels a week (admittedly in the pool) and a fair bit of synchronised swimming (obviously) 😂
I struggle with Gransnet and some of the older (for want of a better word) views on there.
Physical age 64 - in my head age still 37

Have we included rocking chair/knitting/sudoku/shampoo-and-set in the list of things we should be doing?

I was 50 at the end of Sept.
I have a full time job as an editor. I have two sons; one at home. Single parent.
In addition to my work and home and son responsibilities I've been for a run and collected and delivered prescriptions for the vulnerable and shielding in my village.

Wearing skinny jeans.

Crikey...I’ve not seen posts complaining about the over 50s!

It's not exactly complaining about us, more an assumption that we're old gimmers who should (and could) be tucked up at home under a blanket with our cocoa. Also that we have all the money.