'Age' cards - good or bad?

[IfitsNotoverItsNottheEnd]

Just wondering if you would feel completely deflated and upset if someone sent you an 'age' card pointing out how old / decrepit / incapable in body and mind you now are, or if you'd fall about laughing???

I don't like them and I've found a company online who markets themselves as never selling age cards but creating 'positive' alternatives.

I mean, would you send an 18 year old a card saying something along the lines of 'God you're really young and stupid. But you can't help it, can you!'

So why send a person who can't help getting older a card reminding them that they're on the way out?

Or would you send someone with cancer a card saying: 'Oh poor you! You've got the dreaded 'C'. Guess you won't be in the gym any time soon in that state!' ??

So why can't age be a protected characteristic in cards?

If you think I'm nuts, I already know that.

Would appreciate your thoughts...

It doesn’t bother me at the moment, but I guess it might in another 10-20yrs (God willing)

Because joking with someone you know about aspects of life which will happen to us all is not the same as 'othering' someone by joking about their race or sexuality. It is generally ok to joke about things we have in common, amd aging is common to all. Imo it's perfectly normal for friends from the same race/culture to joke about aspects of being from that race or culture, in a way which would be inappropriate from people outside that race/culture.