I am an old, white, female Jew. I never think about being white, or female, or Jewish, and I never have. I do, however, think about being old, since in our society being old is about the worst thing you can be. Old people are unheralded, until their funerals when everyone says what a great person he or she was. (Yeah, there are only hes and shes, get over it.)Nobody stands up for us. In fact, they do the opposite. The major criticism you hear repeatedly about Joe Biden running for president is how damn old he will be when he takes office. Not about how dumb he already is and has been since he plagiarized his term paper (or whatever) in law school, or how unfit for any office of any kind he is, grabbing women willy-nilly to smell their hair or kiss their necks. No, just carping about his damn age! Bernie Sanders, too is, so old, forget that he's a lunatic who wants to give free health care to illegal immigrants and he talks like that. (Oy vay.)
Old people are useless in a society where fashion models who are 14 and rock stars in their twenties earn huge salaries while anyone over 70 is encouraged to volunteer, which means work for free just to stay busy.
Pisses me off.
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