Posted on 02/24/2019 1:00:06 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON, DC – You might recall the films, The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains, and The Invisible Woman, starring Virginia Bruce. These works of fiction entertained audiences in the 1940s. But, it’s the 21st Century and it turns out invisible people really exist.
“They live among us in the guise of senior citizens,” according to Dan Weber, president of AMAC, a powerful senior advocacy organization.
San Francisco-based psychologist and psychotherapist Tamara McClintock Greenberg put it this way in an article for Psychology Today: “Why people are increasingly treated as if they’re invisible as they age (more prevalent it seems, for women) is curious, though perhaps not surprising. We live in a youth-fixated culture where people are afraid to age and to be vulnerable to growing older; where ideals about attractiveness are oriented around those with young, healthy bodies.”
Groups such as AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens, exist and thrive, in part, because the fast growing population of senior citizens in the U.S. is determined to be seen and heard, says Weber. “We are alive and well and, particularly when it comes to ageism, we are not going to take it anymore.”
Weber is not alone in his quest to eradicate the scourge of ageism in America. Author Ashton Applewhite, for example, has devoted herself to what might be called a movement to exposing and eliminating discrimination based on age. Among other things, she created a Web site, Old School, to be an ageism research resource.
“The messages are everywhere that old is not as good as young. We are ageist any time we make an assumption about a person or a group of people on the basis of how old they appear to be . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at amac.us ...
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I am old.
No,
Well Seasoned.
Well, you know, Wishful Thinking World ALWAYS trumps Reality World.
I'm gonna have to try that (I belong to AMAC). I'm 71, and AARP has been sending me stuff since I was 50. It all gets trashed.
I have found that live generally improves as I get older. Yes, there may come a point at which physical infirmity or mental decline may kick in, but an older person who stays reasonably active has a reasonable chance of dodging those bullets as well.
When I was under 18 I considered combing baby powder into my hair to buy beer. Never actually tried it though.
Well, I have a contrarian tale.
I find that rather than disdain, I am commonly met with respect. It is obvious that I’ve been around a good while. People open doors. Cars stop to let me cross even when I motion them through.
There are numerous such examples such as those noted above.
The bleeding heart pseudo scientists busily at work to create another victim class. No doubt these age discrimination victims will be trained to vote for free government money by voting against straight whit Christian males like all the other victims
Back in my day...SNL was actually funny!
The Invisible Man movie had a blooper when he took off his clothes to not to be seen his foot prints in the snow he had shoes on.
We love AMAC
“We love AMAC.” “a little more information as to why?”
It’s the conservative alternative to AARP. That’s the #1 reason we decided to check into it. It has some good services, and if you want to check it out, here’s the website:
Yes, but spelling gets worse. ;-)
Even your writing is becoming invisible. ;-)
Yes; and there’s compensation in everything. Sometimes it’s relaxing - and useful! - to be ‘invisible’.
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