To think young people are getting worse with the ageism

[CurdinHenry]

Some teenage girls just tried to bully me in a shopping centre for having a "millennial walk".;

I appreciate this is mostly very silly (and honestly where did they get the mistaken belief that anyone cares about their opinion on what's cool... Ikik their desperate for approval mums and dads) but I can't imagine even the roughest girl in my year at school making fun of a similarly older woman for her age (who would now be in her mid 70s).

Makes me worry about the workplace in years to come. Perhaps I'd better get on with training up my menagerie of AI bots.

Millenial walk wtf🙄

I must be at least a decade older than you as an older Gen X. I wouldn't say anything but I will confess here that if I saw a young person, which millennials are to me, walking like a dad in a museum, I might well be inwardly amused.

I agree. I was totally unaware/ didn’t engage until it begun to affect me

I think the difference is we don't want them all to die.

Even on Jeremy vine yesterday they had someone in her 30’s talking about ‘ some old bloke of 50’ etc etc . Ageism is everywhere but not new . I remember working in a bank and anyone at 50 became
‘ dead wood ‘ .

I think some people are not great at aging and any mention of age is very triggering for them. And I think they carry that throughout their lives - complaining about how life has always been worse for them because of their age. Some people were born victims!

Ageism is on the rise. But lumping all young people together isn't helpful.

I think most people don't notice ageism until they're actually old so not sure it's actually getting worse.

I tend to just smile to myself as ultimately the joke's on young people and their perceived "I'll never get old" invincibility 😂

Totally agree with you on this. I’m a younger millennial and I don’t recall even knowing what Gen X, boomers, or even the term millennial to be frank was as a teenager! The generation nonsense just didn’t exist or at least wasn’t pushed into the mainstream until Gen Z’s decided it should be a big deal…

My students often presume I’m Gen Z like them and act surprised when I inform them I am in fact a millennial. One of them said “but you don’t wear skinny jeans” and another said “at least you’re almost a Gen Z”…

My adult kids are millennials. They're always respectful towards older people , partly because we were mid thirties plus when we had them I suspect. But one of them said they resent Generation X.
When asked why he said - ' they mostly graduated early 90s into an economic boom and had years to get their feet under the table before the Crash'.

True for him I guess. If you graduated post 2007 , well good luck finding secure employment. Gen Z have the same problems of course. It might explain - but not excuse - their ageism?

I think they were probably just rough and if they hadn't picked on you they would have picked on someone else of any age.

I think there’s a sliding scale of tolerance at play with age. When we are young, we poke fun at older people, and the older we get the more we poke fun at younger people.
I recall just starting my career in teaching and secretly thinking that all the older teachers (probably over 40 😂) were living in the dark ages as far as good teaching was concerned. Now I’m at the end of my career, I find myself thinking the opposite. I’ve seen some awful younger teachers and about the same amount of older ones.
I loathe it when people use insults against older people, but I’m pretty certain I would have been that person when I was young.

I agree, but I think it has gone both ways.

I see plenty of bashing on and offline of young people towards the older generations...

But equally all I hear when I am with "older" people is how awful, terrible, lazy, useless, rude the young are.

The young want to support their parents less and less in the elderly years...

And the old (are) keeping more of their wealth/opportunity and resisting the previously more natural transfers of power/assets/employment downwards.

So for me yes, but it is just part of the general breakdown of the generations/ages.

I dont know but in my experience working in retail millennials are by far the rudest customers I have (I feel I can say that because I am one) My young customers are actually very polite on the whole, my older customers are generally lovely. If someone comes to my till on their phone, doesn't talk to me or even make eye contact, 9 times out of 10 it will be a millennial.

Older people have always complained about "kids these days" and younger people have always thought older people are the hight of uncool. T'was ever thus.

FYI Being ageist about someone your own age is still being ageist - it doesn’t give you an out.

I’m in my 60s and never thought of myself as old when I was in my forties! Not young but not old either.

No one can knock us for anything though. We are awesome 😉

I guess I'm ageist then. I stand by my observation.

Well they were bloody rude. I'm sure we all took the mickey out of "old" (ie, 25 year olds!) when we were younger but certainly not to their faces, that's just plain bad manners. The internet has emboldened people to say things they wouldn't have said 20 years ago.

Learn martial arts and you won't feel so vulnerable. Kids have been taking the p out of the older generation since the beginning of time and older people have been complaining about kids.

You've just hit the opposite side of the bell curve.

My 17 month old walks like that we call it his ‘Napoleon walk’

It will only get worst, it's not about "young" people, it's just you getting older 😂

As are we all...

This. I’ve enjoyed and still enjoy life far more than so many younger people seem to be doing.

They will grow up one day, and realise how stupid they sound. 🙄🤷‍♀️

I think young people are increasingly told that the best stage of life is their own. That youth is better than age in every respect and getting older is a bad thing to be feared and avoided for as long as possible.
Alongside this, they have grown up believing all opinions are equally valid, that life experience doesn't bring anything of greater value to the table, brings no additional perks or respect, as it once did, so there isn't even any compensation to getting older. It's simply something unpleasant and undesirable that's coming for you.
By othering and sneering at people who are older they get to reassure thenselves it hasn't come for them yet.

I’m 47 & work with a 23 year old, she’s insufferable. She puts me down for being slow at technology, she races through everything & the amount of mistakes she makes is unbelievable. She might be fast at technology but doesn’t understand the subject of her job, that’s where I “the old person” has to come in & fix her mistakes.