Age Discrimination

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Nah. Been consistentlt running a pattern of dating men who are at least 8-9 years older. Have crushed on men in their 50s as well, which is probably due to experience and charisma that comes with age. Never dated anybody over 10 yr difference mark tho.
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It's a matter of preference, imo. Is it a bit shallow? Yes.
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Yeah, to each their own. Let others do what they will in their own bedroom
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I still watch Survivor. There is a 70 year old completely buff man - he's former military and former FBI. Very in shape. Some of the younger people on the show was talking about him as if he would be a liability and would have nothing to offer the team. They didn't account for his life experiences, survival skills or his mental game. It was complete blatant age discrimination. I have a feeling he could run circles around them in challenges and in stamina. I'm curious to how it plays out.
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There's a lot of controversy about how my small town is being run. There is a thread on Facebook about some of the issues taht need to be taken care of around here. My almost 19 year old son gets on there stating if he ran this city, he would take care of business and everything would get done that needs to get done. I'm sitting there thinking, son, you have NO life experiences and have no idea how to accomplish all that - it's not as easy as you think it is and you'd never make everyone happy.

Yep, I discounted him due to his age.

Truth is, he'll probably end up the youngest councilman this city has ever had. He LOVES politics.
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It happens to my dad a lot. Sometime I defend him and cal someone out. Other times I let him handle the situation. I jus feel for what he wants in the moment.

It happened just yesterday. He's been having trouble with a cable box for one of his TV's and was trying to explain it to the women at the service counter. She was extremely droll and condescending. And literally began to talk past him to me, as if he were mentally incapacitated and had dementia (which he definitely doesn't.)

Truth be told the part he was miscommunicating was something you or I could easily not know, because it involved knowing technical details and terms about the device. But the lady was clearly treating him like he was just some dumb confused old person.


It makes me so mad when people treat old people like that. I always want to put them in their place.
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A few years ago my mother got the lyrics to Empire State of Mind and she was listening to the song later that night, rapping along.
I stopped her and told her: "Mom. Don't. Just don't. You're too old to rap."

We all had a good laugh.
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My kids do this to me...I'm like why is this music for a certain age? You should appreciate I like it!! lol!!
Oh definitely. And that didn't stop her. She kept on rapping.
Hell, she knows the whole freaking song now. I only know the chorus. And we sing that part together.
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Just wait til she busts out the dance moves!!! They are mortified when I do that!

hahaha!
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My dad and I were talking the other day about how what if the whole system fails and we no longer have power and can live the way we live now. Of course, it will never come to pass....but, what if it did? He figures that the technology generation will starve to death. There are a lot of skills that we really should try to learn from the geriatric generation. His generation would be fine, they practically lived that way during the depression. My generation would fumble, but we know enough about the old ways we could figure it out...but my kids generation would be in trouble. They don't know about growing vegetables or how to take care of livestock or how to manually engineer a water system or how to can vegetables, salt meat or stay warm without central heat.

Or sure, some do. That's his theory and it kind of made sense. He said we should place more value on his generation for their knowledge.

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A few years ago my mother got the lyrics to Empire State of Mind and she was listening to the song later that night, rapping along.
I stopped her and told her: "Mom. Don't. Just don't. You're too old to rap."

We all had a good laugh.
😄
My kids do this to me...I'm like why is this music for a certain age? You should appreciate I like it!! lol!!
Oh definitely. And that didn't stop her. She kept on rapping.
Hell, she knows the whole freaking song now. I only know the chorus. And we sing that part together.
Just wait til she busts out the dance moves!!! They are mortified when I do that!

hahaha!
Oh she has. New year's eve two years ago. She got a little tipsy and shook her booty to Party Rock Anthem!
Mortified doesn't begin to describe how we felt.
Then my dad joined in...
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Love it!!!
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Oh it exists.

At least I've been upgraded to not looking a day over 23 vs 19.

Most people don't take me very seriously haha
It's a problem for you young 'uns too.
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I don't do it in my personal life but at work I do sort of use it for profiling.

e.g. 18 - they just want money, 30 and over - they are probably having a mid life crisis to be wanting to work here.
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Working with a 36 and a 18 atm.

One's a new ops manager
One's a new supervisor

The 18 year old actually comes off more mature in the work place. The 36 year old is stubborn as hell. and if we want to discuss maturity levels, the 36 year old isn't that much better, at least the 18 year old can just admit to being hungover vs the 36 year old making excuses and going to a bucks night.
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Working with a 36 and a 18 atm.

One's a new ops manager
One's a new supervisor

The 18 year old actually comes off more mature in the work place. The 36 year old is stubborn as hell. and if we want to discuss maturity levels, the 36 year old isn't that much better, at least the 18 year old can just admit to being hungover vs the 36 year old making excuses and going to a bucks night.
There's a reason the 36 year old is working there instead of some established career path....JS.

(unless he's doing it for extra money).
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My dad and I were talking the other day about how what if the whole system fails and we no longer have power and can live the way we live now. Of course, it will never come to pass....but, what if it did? He figures that the technology generation will starve to death. There are a lot of skills that we really should try to learn from the geriatric generation. His generation would be fine, they practically lived that way during the depression. My generation would fumble, but we know enough about the old ways we could figure it out...but my kids generation would be in trouble. They don't know about growing vegetables or how to take care of livestock or how to manually engineer a water system or how to can vegetables, salt meat or stay warm without central heat.

Or sure, some do. That's his theory and it kind of made sense. He said we should place more value on his generation for their knowledge.
The young generation didn't create the modern technologies that we have now. If anything, the young generation is being exploited.

The technology generation are not in control of society yet, wait 20 years later when the previous generation have all retired.
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You missed the point.

It wasn't about bashing the technology generation or technology. It's more about how we (even me) rely on technology these days to survive - from electricity to calculators to the computer to the internet. Nothing is done manually anymore. It's a natural occurrence. BUT, if technology goes away permanently - which generation is going to be the most screwed?
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My dad and I were talking the other day about how what if the whole system fails and we no longer have power and can live the way we live now. Of course, it will never come to pass....but, what if it did? He figures that the technology generation will starve to death. There are a lot of skills that we really should try to learn from the geriatric generation. His generation would be fine, they practically lived that way during the depression. My generation would fumble, but we know enough about the old ways we could figure it out...but my kids generation would be in trouble. They don't know about growing vegetables or how to take care of livestock or how to manually engineer a water system or how to can vegetables, salt meat or stay warm without central heat.

Or sure, some do. That's his theory and it kind of made sense. He said we should place more value on his generation for their knowledge.
The young generation didn't create the modern technologies that we have now. If anything, the young generation is being exploited.

The technology generation are not in control of society yet, wait 20 years later when the previous generation have all retired.
You missed the point.

It wasn't about bashing the technology generation or technology. It's more about how we (even me) rely on technology these days to survive - from electricity to calculators to the computer to the internet. Nothing is done manually anymore. It's a natural occurrence. BUT, if technology goes away permanently - which generation is going to be the most screwed?
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The point was the old generation has value in their knowledge. If technology goes away, they will have a LOT to teach us.
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My dad and I were talking the other day about how what if the whole system fails and we no longer have power and can live the way we live now. Of course, it will never come to pass....but, what if it did? He figures that the technology generation will starve to death. There are a lot of skills that we really should try to learn from the geriatric generation. His generation would be fine, they practically lived that way during the depression. My generation would fumble, but we know enough about the old ways we could figure it out...but my kids generation would be in trouble. They don't know about growing vegetables or how to take care of livestock or how to manually engineer a water system or how to can vegetables, salt meat or stay warm without central heat.

Or sure, some do. That's his theory and it kind of made sense. He said we should place more value on his generation for their knowledge.
The young generation didn't create the modern technologies that we have now. If anything, the young generation is being exploited.

The technology generation are not in control of society yet, wait 20 years later when the previous generation have all retired.
You missed the point.

It wasn't about bashing the technology generation or technology. It's more about how we (even me) rely on technology these days to survive - from electricity to calculators to the computer to the internet. Nothing is done manually anymore. It's a natural occurrence. BUT, if technology goes away permanently - which generation is going to be the most screwed?
My mind didn't go there. Simply voicing out my opinion.
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It's all good. The old generation is too quick to discount the young ones as well - as in my dad stating what he stated.
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When it comes to romance, I've always been attracted to younger men and they to me.

When it comes to business I've been on the recieving end of age discrimination along with gender discrimination. Just because I'm a younger female in a profession full of men some automatically are condescending or question my ability.

I've exhausted feeling a certain way about it. Now I just let my work speak for itself.

So in that sense I try to judge people on the content of their character as opposed to the number of years they've been kicking it...
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It is interesting... Yes and what I see is not so good. To me it is the mind set of the people that fall into these categories... I am a younger looking guy... I can personally see... Many of the younger girls seem to want sugar daddies to put them through college or just pay for things and basically trade sex. Even though it is unsaid it is obvious. Then you have the other girls around 30 many of which are in a mind life crises realizing if I want kids or to ever be married I need to quite dating sugar daddies just because they will take me to a nice meal or have benefits of some type. The girls don't get they don't want to marry them... which is why they spend on them... unsaid agreement. Now as girls get older alot of time they try to make these older guys settle down and it is a joke. The girls have no concept of money... and often are freaking out because they don't have their shit together.

Seeing a case go horribly wrong... 2 Virgos... a 23 year old... and I believe a 48 year old.

Now he has kids... known this girl for all of 6 months... and at 3 she got knocked up.

I have heard comments from both sides oh she is a gold digger... but again why would he get married he now shares a kid with her... she would be financially dependent on him well for everything even having the kid considering she was in her last year of law school. Now even if she completes it he is to well known for her to work and live in the same area with out issues. He new her main professor and advisers at her University.

Now don't get me wrong he was or is not a bad guy. He actually is nice but the big problem is she came out of a relationship only 2 or 3 months before him they where hooking in month 2 after she was official broken up. Even then I heard she was still seeing him... on the side.

Now older guy gets in bad car accident and is developing quickly to be out of shape... which is interesting because she is a fitness instructor. So now she will have a baby with a guy that will be 60 something when it grads high school.

To me it is amazing what goes on... interestingly because I am in good shape I have had girls like want booty call like stuff and not me... Now that a few found out I have an ok job it is interesting how people start to treat you different.

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My dad and I were talking the other day about how what if the whole system fails and we no longer have power and can live the way we live now. Of course, it will never come to pass....but, what if it did? He figures that the technology generation will starve to death. There are a lot of skills that we really should try to learn from the geriatric generation. His generation would be fine, they practically lived that way during the depression. My generation would fumble, but we know enough about the old ways we could figure it out...but my kids generation would be in trouble. They don't know about growing vegetables or how to take care of livestock or how to manually engineer a water system or how to can vegetables, salt meat or stay warm without central heat.

Or sure, some do. That's his theory and it kind of made sense. He said we should place more value on his generation for their knowledge.
There is so much truth in this it's scary. It blows my mind when i find out some of the things younger ones i work with just don't know or have never heard about. As much as technolgoy has made life so much easier its all instant gratification and re-inforces that.

I'm so glad i helped in the garden when i was younger, i was taught to change a tire, how to jump a car, how to do laundry (correctly), how to cook decent food!

Canning veggies and making jam.. some of my fondest memories are of spenidng the day with my mom and especially my grandma doing that all day . The stories grandma would share of the family or just about things in life in general. Man i miss her.
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I used to practice positive discrimination towards my elders when I was young.

My dad was very focused on morals and respect so at a young age I began to conflate that respect with intelligence/wisdom. I would always consider I am not aware of all scenarios or just too dumb to grasp the point an older person is making. The respect I felt would override me actually trying to figure out if they had any idea what they were talking about.

Forums actually help with this. Since I'm not aware of ages, I look at the meat of the arguments and not at who says them. As a result, I've done that way less. The trust is that if you're an idiot and as years go by, you stay firm in that position...that doesn't make you wise or intelligent just because you added years to your life. There will always be a level of respect for me but that's about it.

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I tend to like older people more then my age group. Not only is the information well refined is more likely to be fact then fiction. Not saying you won't encounter a person who is phony as fuck, but I'd rather talk to my great grandmother about the ww2 era then my 25 year old friends.

Its like I'm 25 and dating a 21 year old. My biggest dislike about her is the fact she's 21 and not 30 lol. And when I told her that she looked confused because she always thought all men liked younger woman. Something about older women with confidence and their shit together is much more attractive then a 20 year old that smells like a fucking synthetic flower. Walking around being all uncomfortable and masked just to impress a buch of people that hardly give a damn in the first place. Older women tend to understand this better then younger.