The Ageism Tsunami
<p>Cruel jokes about the elderly are everywhere. We need to face our ageism tsunami and change our attitudes and policies about growing older.</p>
<p>If you watch <em>Saturday Night Live </em>or other TV comedy shows, there’s been an increasing number and frequency of jokes about elderly people, depicting their declining cognitive functions, the “repulsiveness” of an elderly body (particularly female), or physical infirmities. If the same kind of cruel mocking took place with an ethnic or racial group, women or the LGBT community, network heads would roll. But it’s tolerated for the elderly.</p>
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