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#53996 - 04/22/06 08:28 PM Satire using Boomers
Mountain Ash Member Registered: 12/30/05 Posts: 3027	For the first time I have experienced "humour" targeted at Boomers... In a recent UK show where satire was being used in reference to waiting times for operations this was a rough description. A close up of a man dressed as a doctor who spoke to the audience saying."Come on all you Boomers...there are too many of you...why dont you all shoot each other" etc etc... It took a moment for me to realise that he actually said this.....I wonder if this is a taste of things to come.Having got the feminist point of view home do I have to go on another crusade.I know I did not refer to older people like this when I was younger.
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#53997 - 04/22/06 10:17 PM Re: Satire using Boomers
Casey Member Registered: 11/18/05 Posts: 789 Loc: Aptos, California	Yick! I know the boomer generation in the states was portrayed to some degree as being the retirees who would sink the Social Security Systems by just lying around collecting money. The truth is that boomers want to continue working and, for the most part, don't see just sitting around doing nothing as a good future. It's tough to find a job after 50 here, however, in spite of the law against agism. Corporations seem to want young, easily influenced people whom they can hire two-for-one for the cost of an older worker. As you can see, I'm already on this crusade! :-))
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#53998 - 04/23/06 01:01 AM Re: Satire using Boomers
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Here, here Casey keep up the good work we need all the help possible, wonder what boomers will be blamed for next?
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#53999 - 04/24/06 10:27 AM Re: Satire using Boomers
norma Member Registered: 10/29/05 Posts: 286 Loc: western canada	mountain ash, casey, chatty .... do you remember the humour on the radio and tv when we were young ... didn't much of it seem to be aimed towards women drivers, mothers'in law and the obvious stupidity of women in general .... or was just me being overly sensitive .....?
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#54000 - 04/25/06 07:48 AM Re: Satire using Boomers
Casey Member Registered: 11/18/05 Posts: 789 Loc: Aptos, California	As a blonde...:--)) Of course, I remember. The patronizing ....#$% that went on. It still happens. I really, really dislike being patronized as if I am a silly creature that still doesn't know anything at the age of 54.
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#54001 - 04/25/06 12:37 AM Re: Satire using Boomers
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Norma I believe you are 100% correct about the humor back then but now it just seems to me to be mean spirited towards we older women in general. Trying to make us appear stupid, needy or at best silly and that really pisses me off.
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#54002 - 04/25/06 01:39 AM Re: Satire using Boomers
Tami Member Registered: 03/23/06 Posts: 55 Loc: Kansas	Duck's Back, Ladies! Just let it flow right off your back! We are a powerful generation of women...look at all we've accomplished and we're not done yet! The smart-aleck attempt at humor directed at us is a feeble, thinly cloaked shield against the level of intimidation we're capable of dishing out. I'll never shy away from a confrontation on this subject. I've snapped back on more than a few flagrant unfounded attacks on my generation from those hem-grabbing, incapable of an original thought next generationers. One of my pet peeves. Fits right in behind stupid drivers.
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#54003 - 04/25/06 01:27 PM Re: Satire using Boomers
Mountain Ash Member Registered: 12/30/05 Posts: 3027	Hi All yes duck's back.One person said too me."I am not going to be parked" as in put in a space in the parking lot. My career was intergrating diasabled and fragile pupils/students into mainstream. Starting in 1979. I did the whole thing....heard the lot.From professionals who wanted segregation.At the same time I was studying and door were opened by feminists writers.Along side that in the UK mines were closed so I have been around predjudice both in class and about class....I surely could tell the youngsters and "comics" a few things.BUT my power is staying quiet (for now) in the knowledge that we are a generation of great strength.capable and marvelous women. Mountain Ash
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