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"ageist" Definitions
  1. showing an unfair attitude towards older people

140 Sentences With "ageist"

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We are all ageist, I think, and say ageist stuff.
It's about how ageist and sexist Hollywood has been, specifically, to Carrie Fisher — and how ageist and sexist it continues to be right up into the present.
" Applewhite, an activist whose blog, "Yo, Is This Ageist?
It's never said outright, but my colleagues are definitely ageist.
In addition, I feel like the bike lanes are ageist.
Even beauty queen Vanessa Williams isn't immune to Hollywood's ageist tendencies.
"Not to be ageist," Wertz said, "but she's a lot younger."
And the writers' room … is one of the most ageist places ever.
But those rationales have the effect of being racist, ageist, and classist.
Despite the ageist snarking, Millennials made a good showing at Desert Trip.
It's ageist — which is weird, since the dinosaurs are dead, not old!
ELIZABETH Your friend tried to bully you by using an ageist epithet.
I hope this doesn't sound ageist, but I'm looking for a peer now.
Humans are racist, sexist, ageist, corrupt, unfair, get tired, and we know that.
My career started from the point of view of (New Ageist) Edgar Cayce.
Will less ageist citizens support stronger enforcement of laws against workplace age discrimination?
Q. Do you think President Trump's attacks on you as doddering are ageist?
But I understood their ageist point and the fact that they completely misunderestimated me.
The other candidates have shied away from this point (due to worries it's ageist).
Ageist recruitment practices and corporate cultures can be big impediments to keeping older workers employed.
Bassett has flipped this phenomenon on its ageist (and sexist) head by aging into sisterhood.
Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: As someone who is pushing 80, I sometimes encounter ageist prejudice.
" Comparing your state of mind to the number on your driver's license, she says, "gives the number more power than it deserves, contributes to ageist assumptions about what age signifies and ageist stereotypes about what age looks like, and distances us from our cohorts.
And model Gillean McLeod and H&M are here to help further the anti-ageist agenda.
"In a country that's very ageist, people love to put you in little boxes," she says.
Like the racist and the sexist, the ageist rejects an Other based on a perceived difference.
Cormier, for his part, goes for the mildly sexist/ageist route, but doesn't actually refute anything.
"I figure you're not an ageist," she wrote, a gambit that all but ensured her inclusion.
When internalized by older adults themselves, ageist views can lead to poorer mental and physical health.
Not to be ageist here, but his veep nominee should probably be no older than 70.
I don't want to be coming from an ageist point of view about that, at all.
But systems can also learn to be racist, sexist, ageist, and biased in other nefarious ways.
" Positive call outs would appeal to a person's "pure vanity, with a superficial, narcissistic, ageist bent.
Sexist, racist, ageist, homophobic, and transphobic costumes are flooding stores and websites as people shop for Halloween.
The movie can, at times, be racist, ageist, and homophobic—which is where René Angélil comes in.
This time, the plaintiffs are claiming the U.S. government is encouraging the potentially ageist practices throughout corporate America.
"When I asked how she remembers the club scene 30 years ago, she laughs and says, "That's ageist!
Which is why when people make ageist remarks or ask age-related questions, I find it so shortsighted.
Many of the anti-Trump zealots are as crude, ageist, anti-Semitic and threatening as pro-Trump extremists.
Will.i.am's company is ageist, according to his former chef who says she got canned purely because she's over 40.
We see that with people being racist in the industry, being ageist, transphobic, just all kinds of terrible things.
One could also say that the airbrushing of the poster was ageist, so we'll call this one a draw.
Part of the issue, one industry veteran notes, is the fundamental "work hard, play hard" mantra is inherently ageist.
Jones is six feet tall), racist or ageist (she is in her late 40s) — or all of the above.
There's an ageist, a sexist, and a racist component when you generalize a diverse movement under the term 'Bro.
If we want to ensure a less ageist culture, then the battle begins in the mirror, wrote Ashton Applewhite.
And it's just as ageist ... I mean, I have a younger friend who goes to a lot of these conferences where —they're around "age land" — and he's young and he's male, so 50 people ask him if he can fix their computers as he walks through the room, that's ageist and sexist too.
Vandals occasionally delete and replace the entire article with content that's (a) repetitive, (b) homophobic/ageist, or (c) textbook adolescent.
Boomers like Cowen are simultaneously anxious about the meme's ageist implications, and eager to assert their wisdom over younger generations.
Let's be honest, the idea that coloring books are just for kids is ageist anyway, so f*ck that, too!
Public speakers, comedians and news columns call on ageist stereotypes in ways they no longer would about race or gender.
"Negative ageist attitudes toward older people are widespread," a 2015 analysis by the World Health Organization confirmed in a survey.
Personal gotchas were mainly in the "name I do not recognize" department, although I don't think many were particularly ageist.
Photoshop in advertising and magazines is so often used in ways that are ageist, ableist, fatphobic, racist and deeply sexist.
But that, clearly, is criminally ageist; there's no reason women in their 20s shouldn't be able to do the same.
" The ballet shoe, which she claims was originally designed to be gender non-specific, "is perennial, democratic, inclusionary and non-ageist.
"People can feel disposable, no longer valued," adds Smith, who feels ageist hiring and artificial intelligence have only fueled those concerns.
When you engage, do your best to stifle any ageist retorts, and think of it as an exercise in good communication.
"In a country that's very ageist, people love to put you in little boxes," Brinkley told PEOPLE after the photo shoot.
"It would be really great to address ageist hiring practices," Brant says of what she hopes to see in the sequel.
So instead of putting the blame on people caught in this bind, what if we had better anti-ageist work policies?
Ageist employers are overlooking a valuable asset to their workforceA 2017 report by AARP describes the stigma older workers can face.
With such visibility, it's no surprise Thunberg and other young women have also been the focus of misogynistic and ageist attacks.
The now 50-year-old mother is living proof that, despite ageist tropes, there isn't an age limit to sexual self-discovery.
Younger feminists told older ones they needed to get out of the way; older ones told the young they were being ageist.
For nearly 20 years, the former psychologist has been competing in bodybuilding competitions around the world, while putting a dent in ageist stereotypes.
For example, when The New York Daily News printed a comment from Senator Chuck Schumer under a rudely ageist headline in September 93.
Har Mar Superstar: I'm so used to that because I came up in England early on and people are really ageist over there.
Gary Glouner says he worked under the Facebook umbrella for 2 years, and during that time was the butt of many ageist jokes.
Here's why: When he appeared to question Biden's memory—quickly perceived as an ageist challenge to Biden's competency-- Castro looked like a jerk.
In a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter, the producer Milton Justice, who is white, decried the changes as ageist and insulting to blacks.
Younger workers in particular, are not willing to stick around at a company that is racist, sexist, ageist, or otherwise discriminatory in any way.
Demi Burnett kissed her Bachelor, Colton, in front of the rest of the cast and made ageist statements to "older" (by Bachelor standards) contestants.
When the New Museum kicked off its first triennial in 2009, titled "Younger Than Jesus," some critics raised their eyebrows at the ageist premise.
In recent years, Ms. Jenkins has worked to combat ageist marketing, educate seniors about fraud and reduce the number of older adults going hungry.
Fletcher's strengths subverted ageist and sexist expectations at the time: Her wisdom comes from years of experience, and her intelligence is enhanced by feminine empathy.
Joy still works — at a part-time job as a conservation consultant for a museum, a position she values, despite ageist attempts to sideline her.
Gullette argues that pharma and cosmetic companies aren't catering to the old so much as catering to the ageist idea that getting old is unbearable.
Some began claiming that "boomer" was an ageist slur equivalent to "the n-word," while others merely discouraged the use of "boomer" in the workplace.
In Vulnicura, Bjork pays absolutely no attention to the ageist tropes and expectations that blemish the industry like acne, and asserts her own voice accordingly.
And so we are preparing ourselves for a 2020 election that will have this — again, young black woman — intersectional racist, sexist, ageist attack line coming.
Truth is, those headlines were ageist, and not about the possibility that President Reagan had Alzheimer's (a condition not diagnosed or made public until 1994).
And the anti-sexist, anti-racist, gender-various, anti-ageist plurality platform, which Mr. Michele was among the first in fashion to embrace, has become an industry bandwagon (well, maybe not the anti-ageist part.) Yet, not only because Mr. Michele now employs Mickey Mouse motifs on Gucci products, does he resemble Walt Disney in his gift for fusing high culture to the vulgar delirium of pop.
PolitiFact rated his statement as "mostly false" and several Democratic candidates piled onto Castro for making an ageist attack they viewed as overly personal or unfair.
The idea is that these attitudes serve as a buffer against stress and anxiety around aging which is the result of living in an ageist society.
And, of course, the movie's theme of gigolo-dom provides many opportunities for sexist, ageist and lookist humor, all of which "Latin Lover" takes with regularity.
And I care more about how I feel than how I present to an ageist environment that ignores me more and more the older I get.
Review: 'Feud: Bette and Joan' serves up delicious dish on old Hollywood "Feud" also is expected to tackle a more serious theme, Hollywood's ageist attitude toward women.
And is that the safe way to have the discussion instead of, maybe as Castro did last night, veering more towards something that could be considered ageist?
The idea that these events could be eclipsed by the mere longevity of Madonna's career seems odd, until you remember how sexist and ageist the music industry is.
Romo's NFL is increasingly ageist, too, an unintentional byproduct of a collective bargaining agreement that rewards the use of cheaper, disposable labor instead of accomplished, better-compensated options.
" Then he did some ageist jokes before delivering a final blow in the form of "Red Hot Chili Peppers: poor man's Faith No More, don't ever forget it.
Turns out, they aren't imagining things: Calhoun describes peers saddled with debt, underwater on their houses and sidelined by a labor market that can be ageist and sexist.
In the end, his campaign stalled after he was accused of being difficult and ageist, when he questioned Mr. Biden's memory during the third Democratic debate in September.
I did not wish to repeat the mistakes of those who do not age well and who accept the stereotypes and self-loathing that abound in an ageist culture.
A struggling actress upstaged on her own show, she deals with a pathological need for attention along with more universal female complaints such as weight gain and ageist beauty standards.
"The traditional Indian family system is patriarchal and ageist," A.F. Mathew, sociologist and associate professor of humanities and liberal arts at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, told BuzzFeed News.
We'll have your millennial ageist butt ejected from the office so fast the wind shear will give you one of those racist undercut haircuts you dingbat kids love so much.
In comments that some might construe as ageist, bitcoin investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, 37, told CNBC in February that the technology is something an older generation may not understand.
Dr. LaBar is especially concerned about the impact of the challenge on older adults, whom he says are "particularly susceptible to the impact of negative implicit biases" of ageist attitudes.
The most common cri de coeur: The changes were ageist (a possibility) and insulting to blacks (if there's a black academy member out there who agrees, please do get in touch).
The cheeky image of Okachan, whom he considers a muse, does work to challenge ageist assumptions of a group of women who are in many ways culturally rendered sexless and invisible.
"It's not just an ageist thing, but some of these shows have skewed like 64 years of age," he said, referring to the median age of viewers for some Turner shows.
Actresses tend to experience no increase at all, perhaps because their wins tend to come in their mid-30s and the ageist industry offers women fewer roles as they grow older.
Over the past year, there have been some 50 workshops with aging service providers and businesses–even people who work within aging may be using ageist language and not know it.
Should the new administration signal that it too is unwilling to enforce our immigration laws fairly, equally, and without an ageist-bent, the flood over our borders will become a torrent.
This is why advocates of a less ageist, more sex-positive culture say they're hopeful Grace and Frankie can serve as a pivotal moment for making senior sexuality a more mainstream topic.
Pelosi always projected confidence when asked whether she would be the next speaker, as the members arguing against her in the days after the election were accused of being sexist and ageist.
Jamie Denbo, who plays Ginsberg on the Netflix hit show Orange is the New Black, recently took to social media to blast a casting call that she deemed both sexist and ageist.
But ageism is singular, because it's directed at a group that at one point wasn't the Other—and at a group that the ageist will one day, if all goes well, join.
Mr. Hougan now calls it the "aging/ageist suit" and uses it in workshops as a tool to talk about the psychological effects of aging and to confront biases about growing old.
Americans have created a culture so ageist that some people may prioritize not being perceived as "old" over their considerable physiologically and immunologically established risk of getting sick and dying from coronavirus.
But it's also because of ageist attitudes that suggest such investments and interventions are not as necessary for older adults, said Jerry Reed, a nationally recognized suicide expert with the nonprofit Education Development Center.
While there does genuinely seem to be a consumer push to be less ageist when we talk about skin and older women, we've seen what happens when companies try to co-opt these efforts.
"Bushwig will not tolerate racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, biphobic, femme phobic, ageist, ableist, fat phobic, classist, xenophobic, or oppressive behavior or language of any kind at our festival," reads the event's policy to attendees.
" Wigdor, a prominent attorney who successfully sued Fox News in part on issues relating to gender, added that he will work to "hold NY1 accountable" for what he alleged were "blatant ageist and sexist views.
But, much like the underage drinker being turned away because of their age, the real question here is the validity of the policy, which is not only sexist and ageist, according to critics, but illegal.
And people who are much older, because ... an ageist idea I started out with was one of the awful things about getting old is clearly that as death gets closer, you must get more apprehensive.
Mr. Gade said that the student's comment was like saying, "OK, boomer," referring to a phrase that has alternately been called a dismissive, even ageist retort against older people and a rallying cry of younger generations.
Airlines are struggling to deal with racist, homophobic, ageist and sexually abusive passengers on their flights, with 350 reported cases of such misconduct reported last year, Bloomberg reports, citing provisional data from the International Air Transport Association.
The principal at a Catholic high school on New York's Staten Island has allegedly fostered a toxic environment by using profane language and making racist, sexist and ageist comments, according to a civil lawsuit obtained by PEOPLE.
In this case, people on Twitter simply didn't understand the Pass Rider system, and instead saw what they wanted to see: a nationwide ban on yoga pants, or misogynist, ageist policies of discrimination against women and children.
Its duration alone, in the fickle and ageist world of pop, is staggering: The 22016-year-old Lopez has stuck around long enough to ride the wave of two different "Latin booms," from "Bailamos" to Bad Bunny.
And here is the good news: If all that success is possible for a woman over 35 in entertainment — one of the most sexist, ageist, male-dominated industries on Earth — then imagine what you can do in your career!
So when Liz says, regretfully, "Rosemary says that women become obsolete in this business when there's no one left that wants to see them naked," it's not just a generic one-off line about how ageist and sexist Hollywood is.
In the most recent debate, Warren argued back and forth on issues such as "Medicare for All" but never resorted to a direct shot akin to the one attempted by Castro, which was deemed an ageist attack by other 2020 candidates.
When they suggest that the so-called '2019nCov' coronavirus appears to be of greatest threat to the old and already infirm, they encourage us to ignore the plights of people in those groups, and take an ageist and ableist point of view.
I remember years ago, I was in LA and this friend of my son's was ... Snapchat came up, I guess it was, and I just assumed, totally ageist of me, but because he was a young guy, he knew all about this.
Ultimately, I think the pro-choice position is ageist and ableist (saying an embryo is not a person since it doesn't have the ability to survive on its own or hasn't reached a certain gestational age), neither of which is compatible with these tenets.
Analysing the 393 highest-grossing films of 239, the authors found that only 22015% of characters were aged 22015 and over—off-screen seniors represent 18.5% of the general population—and 30 of the 57 films that featured a senior character used ageist comments.
A larger example: Stung by the fact that "Spinner," the company's ditzy PR girl, let the CEO say dumb ageist things in an interview with the New York Times, Lyons lets rip with surprisingly snide Facebook posts and comments about the CEO and the company.
Great Senior Living, a site that focuses on senior care and retirement living, surveyed 500 people aged 55 and older on their emoji use and discovered that contrary to any ageist notions floating around, your parents and grandparents didn't just fall off the digital turnip truck.
"Echoing these sentiments, Preston Mitchum, an activist and adjunct law professor at Georgetown Law Center, told Insider, "People should have the right to actually talk about their concerns about Biden and his fitness to run for office without having complaints lodged against them that they're being ageist.
It may be petty or even ageist to harp on the miscasting of Craig Sheffer as Joe Kane, but I still cannot get my head wrapped around the idea of having a 32-year-old play a college junior, no matter how hard-livin' that junior is supposed to be.
"Unless you're going to try to tell me those plantation owners were so in the dark ages that they delighted in being also sexist and ageist — practicing age discrimination and sex discrimination when they bought slaves — I don't see how you can say they're being racist because they bought black slaves," he continued.
" Dr. Davidson said he worries that "residue ageist attitudes amongst some on the left" will actually aid the right: "The origins of the movement that set out to stop the state from supporting people in later life by framing this as somehow being unfair to younger people was the neo-liberal Americans for Generational Equity.
Prepare for a cataract of derision and self-righteousness should you dare pen anything perceived as too left or too right, as too pious or too profane, as possibly ageist or racist, sexist or classist, each "ist" word shot like a silver bullet intended first to take you down and then to wake you from your own beastliness.
"I'm not an ageist, and I never have been, but as I get older I realize the limitations of getting older, and I can't even begin to imagine the strain of being president of the United States," said Steve Horner, 68, a retired special education teacher from Las Vegas who travels with a portable oxygen unit to help him breathe.
Whether they involve ridiculously ageist credos, ultra-prescriptive "dress for your size" commandments, or body-type fruit-shape suggestions, fashion do's and don'ts are pretty much a load of BS. Plus-size blogger Simone Mariposa was so fed up with being told what (not) to wear that she started a hashtag movement, #WeWearWhatWeWant, to change things, one Twitter or Instagram post at a time.
By confronting it so publicly, Whelan has confronted the limited strictures that govern the very perception of contemporary ballet: that it is necessarily ageist in its demands of the human body, that it excuses and glorifies a culture of dancing through pain, and that it relies on women's bodies to be the tools of its expression, forcing its rigid ideas of beauty even at the expense of safety and comfort.

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