Over 50? Move out because someone is entitled to your home!
From Ellen: Just ran across this article and am horrified at the tone. While I’m sympathetic to the plight of youngers who would like to purchase a home, it’s not an entitlement! This article suggests that “old people” need to just go away, be taxed out of their homes or simply be kicked out because they are taking up valuable real estate. It incites generational conflict, when we should be asking ourselves why there’s a lack of affordable housing to begin with and what kind of innovative solutions we can come up with. Cohousing? The Dutch have also done some unique things in this area. We’re all somewhere on the timeline of aging. It’s ridiculous to suggest the problem is the result of olders who won’t give up their homes.
I couldn’t have said it better. This is a housing-market and public-policy problem, not a too-many-old-people who have the temerity-to-want-to-keep-an-affordable-roof-over-their-heads problem.
08/11/17
How to respond to "Miss" from a 20-year old?
I didn’t like turning into a “ma'am” at 28, and I certainly disliked turning into a “miss” in my 50s (10 years ago). How do I retrain them from addressing me that way?
OH yeah-and getting automatic coupons for Ensure drinks at grocery stores. REALLY? How to respond to THAT?
Hmm, I dislike “ma’am” more than “miss;” no accounting for taste. How about suggesting what you prefer to be called? A good all-purpose response to an offensive comment is, “Why would you say that/ call me that/ put Ensure coupons in my groceries?
08/11/17
From Jana: While registering voters in TX last week I was asked to hand out this pamphlet. I did not because I though it was ageist. What do you think?
It doesn’t seem like effective voter-registration literature, but it also seems more weird than ageist.
08/03/17