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.

There is a huge amount of resentment by under 25s towards millenials - my kids moan about them all the time. I think the triggers are: millenials have tiny student loans or none at all; millenials can afford to buy their own home; millenials are delaying having children which means lots more 30 somethings are out socialising with money, whilst those in their 20s are skint either because they have extortionate rents to pay or they are jobless.

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You haven’t just complained about them being ageist, you’ve gone on to stereotype them (horribly, btw) and been completely ageist in return.

If the irony of this thread is lost in you, maybe they are right?

if there's one thing I take from this thread, is how very true having kids keeps you young.

Being a so-called "older parent", or at the very least a very active and involved grand-parent, and being forced in the world of the much younger generations is a bonus and keep you a lot more open-minded, like it or not 😂

It stops being "them" vs "us", and force you to face a few truths about yourself too.

Early 90s was a time of recession not an economic boom.

i don't think sweeping generalisations help, but we do all have experiences where one age group or another may be more prevalent in a particular behaviour... and it's easy to be ageist in those circs.

I can honestly say most teens and younger folk are fab with my and help me loads when i'm out and about (disabled/mobility aid user) but on a whole, the people who are rude, entitled, judgemental and more likely to abuse me, are pensioners.

Make of that what you will.

I’m in my 30s so only just beginning to see/experience being slightly older than the younger generation. I see a LOT of the ‘millennials are awful/cringe’ online but not a huge amount in real life. I just remind myself that their time will come, there will be a new generation in a decade or so making fun of everything about gen-z.

I think you’re just getting older.

They call Gen Z snowflakes and then get wound up over things like this 🤣 you sound utterly ridiculous

Was thinking the same and wasn't it Gen X who graduated into the 90s? No jobs for sure - unless you lived in London maybe?

I already had work experience in my chosen job, but just before I graduated they decided to stop hiring. There was no sense of an economic boom that I recall. Certainly none of my friends bought property early on.

This is a weekly column in a supplement magazine. It's just ageist drivel every week.

You have started a thread on MN about how young people today are so ageist, N.B. Alanis, this is irony!

But surely people in their 30s have always had more money than people in their 20s (on average)?

I mean, on account of having worked for 10+ years?

I'm 64 and my generation is to blame for all our current woes. Older than me are even more to blame.

Oh who cares. We were the same with the boomers and Gen Alpha will do it to them. They’re young and silly.

This makes no sense. I’m a millenial and have £50k of uni debt (remember £9k a year and plan 2 started in 2012). And I’m doing a degree now at 31 that’s the same cost as their loans… people can go to uni at any age. And 30+ people have always had more money because they’ve worked for 10-15 years

What on earth gives you that idea that millenials despise gen Z?

Ageism comments are bizarre. We are all ageing, even the mouthy teenagers. They are hating their future selves because that is where they are headed too. Other isms like racism, sexism etc are negatively talking or thinking about people not like themselves but ageing is for everyone, albeit some have longer/shorter lives. Like it or not.

It’s ageism.

A very short recession 89 -91. Followed by a long boom which ended in 2008.

Very young Gen X could have graduated in 2000 - 2001. the oldest people at my Uni were Gen x.

Like a PP said as a parent of one Gen z, I think they do perhaps feel like the millennials haven't moved over. Mostly, when you got to pubs in my area it is basically millennials, Gen x whereas in my day it was mainly people in late teens early twenties in pubs and bars.

That's not the case if you are a millenial that graduated before 2005.

Mumsnetters criticising any other group for being ageist is the definition of irony!🤣

I don't recognise your description of bars, from when I drank under age to now (in my 50s) - I have never gone to bars/pubs that attracted a single generation, I have always enjoyed a mixed age drinking environment, I'm sure you could/can find them but I didn't go looking for them as the idea has never appealed to me.