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.

It's not that I went looking for them, that's just the way it was as beer wasn't £6-8 a pint and my parents Boomers and many of their friends didn't go to pubs. Perhaps one on a country walk but or a quiet local. Young Gen z don't have the money to go to pubs around here unless weatherspoons.

It's ageism.

And it's whiny, petulant, selfpitying, and resentful ageism.

I've reported this silly thread for being ageist nonsense.

No, but that’s only half of millenials (actually only a few % because the oldest millennials were 24 in 2005). They can surely not generalise the entire generation when loads of us DID pay. And like I said… the majority of my current course is 30+

My younger colleagues are casually ageist without even realising it. Its all the talk of different, named, generations with associated characteristics. This translates into stereotypes. Social media obviously largely to blame.
Ageism has always been around, but it feels fairly socially acceptable at the moment.

Yes, I’m GenX and remember feeling that way when the Millennials coming up behind us starting telling us that they were the most put-upon generation ever. My dad was in the part of the workforce who were downsized out of “jobs for life” culture by manufacturing globalisation and automation, and I (first in the family to go to uni) graduated into a huge recession with no jobs for new grads.

I’ve felt genuine empathy for younger generations and their lot of challenges, but have noticed it doesn’t often come back in the other direction! It’s like they only look at the winners and decide the challenges everyone else faced didn’t have any impact.

Oooh, I should add, i do see younger generations being stereotyped too. But not in my particular workplace. And also, its not all younger colleagues that are casually ageist.

I think if someone posted that they didn't want to move house because they felt "safer" where there were less people of a certain race then yes, I would think they were racist.

The recession was still going throughout the mid-90s, it was only the later part of the decade that it started to lift. And yes, then the boom, which ended with dot com crash in 2000, then a recovery, and then the credit crunch in 2008.

All of which I had to navigate as an adult, so not exactly unscathed.

Who are all these weird people suggesting you move out of your urban area for “safety” . Where do they live @CurdinHenry ?

Tbh walking with your hands clasped behind your back is not a very practical way to walk - you can’t really save yourself from harm if you trip over or quickly defend yourself if anyone tries to hit you / mug you.. plus King Charles who is nearly 80 and a man does walk like that.. so did Prince Philip iirc! So it’s not actually a Millennial Walk it’s an Elderly Man Walk.

Whatever though, you have the right to walk in the style you want to without randoms bullying you!
I hope you told the mean girls to fuck off!!

Also I can’t remember what a millennial/ Gen Z etc is.. I think I’m Gen X as I was a teenager in the 90s? Maybe. But in my pt job I mix with colleagues age from 18 - 65 or older.. the only person who ignores me at work because of my age (and weight) is a 28 year old lad who is known for being extremely shallow with women, he’s a coke head so I really don’t give a shit about him.

Surely if you are a millennial you are too young to be worrying about falling over?

A friend once pointed out that you know when you are getting old when you talk about "having a fall" rather than just "falling over". I think that now I am in my 60s it's possible I have reached that point but I must admit I hadn't so far worried about walking with my hands in my pockets. But I do take care on steps

A group of teenagers had a joke at your expense and now you’re tarring all young people as feckless? Isn’t that ageist OP?

older generations have always hated on younger generations. Calling them lazy, rude, entitled. Us millenials got it from the baby boomers, now you’re doing it because some teenagers thought to vocalise that you’re odd for walking with your hands behind your back.

poor teenagers nowadays have to deal with cyber bullying, perverts, a non existent job market, zero hope of ever owning a house, not being able to afford university etc etc etc. and the media hates on them at every single opportunity.

my experience as a mum of an older teen is that some are a bit shit, but a whole load of them are smart, articulate, compassionate, wonderful people.

If I started a thread in exactly the same vein, but aimed at ' the older generation getting worse', there'd be outrage and it would be deleted in 5 minutes. It's just a massive double standard. Total hypocrisy.

This post has to be fake.

you’re happy to rip holes in 15 year olds based on nothing but their age. But someone mocks you for your age (apparently) and it’s ageist 🤦🏻‍♀️

@TheBlueKoala · 18/05/2026 19:19

I think I would just have laughed as well. But then I'm very aware of my age and I accept that I'm old (46) and not cool so nothing on that register really gets to me.

46 is old? 😂

On what planet?

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No offence to your kids but there doesn't seem to be any logic in most of their "rationale" (as well as lots of it being inaccurate, e.g. the youngest millennials would be have been subject to the full £9k loans, which were proportionally far higher compared to average income/interest rates etc in 2012 than they are now - they've hardly increased in 14 years, despite almost everything else going up hugely).

Apart from everything else, surely it's always been normal to have more money in your early thirties than in your late teens/early twenties. Gen Z spans 14-28, so a median age of 21 - it was never the norm for most people to be able to buy their own homes at age 21, and certainly was not for millennials!

If they thought about it for a second surely they'd realise that millennials were also skint when they were 21 (and many still are!) - if 35 year olds do now have some spare money (although because many are right in the trenches of mortgage plus childcare most expensive years I doubt this), it's only because they've been in work for 15-20 years by this point and have worked their way up.

It's the difference between being 18 compared to 35, rather than being a millennial vs Gen Z. They need to improve their critical thinking rather than falling for the media hype of generational division.

I think it's more that they have less respect than an increase in ageism. Me and my friends would have a giggle about mannerisms of older generations amongst ourselves, we wouldn't make comments directly to an older stranger. Saying that, there were still nasty, disrespectful teens about when I was younger and I can't imagine my teens would dare disrespect an adult.

The UK, and lots of others countries, was in recession in the early 90s. Pretty much everyone I know struggled to find a job after graduating.