Old-man Bashing

	posted by Scott on Sunday December 30, @12:03PM from the news dept.
	Douglas Rome submitted this article from the UK Guardian. It describes the increasing derision people are expressing for older men, and as Douglas writes, "This article is especially interesting in that it's by a radical feminist who's shown no previous sympathy for men's plight: I think they're becoming worried, at last, over the molten fury of the men's movement about what Karpf describes as sexism hiding behind feminism."

	Source: The Guardian [UK newspaper] Title: Old man blues Author: Anne Karpf Date: December 22, 2001

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Old man blues (Score:1) by Philalethes on Sunday December 30, @04:52PM EST (#1) (User #186 Info) Well, I haven't read anything else by this writer, but this article does strike me as rather nice -- though there are hints of the usual hard-ass female attitude that seems to be the norm in among Euro-American women these days. As one of those very same aging baby-boomers (I knew David Crosby in high school, when he was an obnoxious kid with a guitar and a conviction of his coming greatness -- and who's to say he wasn't right, I'm glad he persisted) she writes about, I can vouch for how post-50 difficulties can be a rude wake-up call in a culture where age is neither respected nor properly prepared for. It's doubly unfortunate that, for the most part, our "elders" no longer deserve the respect they aren't getting. When it becomes politically-incorrect to notice that there are real differences between the sexes, many other formerly-obvious distinctions must also be officially erased, including that between children and adults, and what used to differentiate elders from younger members of society. If it's "patriarchal" to suggest a man might know more than a woman about anything, it's equally abhorrent to think an older person might know something any young person doesn't. Eventually, all this leveling produces a lowest-common-denominator society made up entirely of children, of all chronological ages, wherein no one understands how to age gracefully because aging itself is a mistake or a crime.

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