Comments on: “Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!” * http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/ Celebrating Women of Style and Substance Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Geri http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-2768 Geri Mon, 17 May 2010 17:26:05 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=2261#comment-2768 Hi Rose, Great question. Why not say "Over" 60 since you say "under 10"? And drop the word seniors. Geri Hi Rose,

Great question. Why not say “Over” 60 since you say “under 10″? And drop the word seniors.

Geri

]]> By: Rose Hall http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 Rose Hall Mon, 17 May 2010 17:17:05 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=2261#comment-2767 Okay, here's a question for you. I curate a small privately owned non-profit museum. Most of our visitors are children under 15 or adults over 50. We offer discounted admission for children under 10 and "seniors". I don't maintain a cutoff age for the senior discount; I figure, if you feel like you fit the bill and you want to save a buck, great, if not, that's three dollars please (still a steal, no?)! So....if the secretly ageist terms listed above are off the table, whats a good alternative? I mean, I agree with you whole-heartedly, but a lot of my visitors of a certain age would demand a discount, so I've got to call it something! Ideas? By the way, I encountered this post while image searching for Iris. God, she's beyond amazing. Okay, here’s a question for you. I curate a small privately owned non-profit museum. Most of our visitors are children under 15 or adults over 50. We offer discounted admission for children under 10 and “seniors”. I don’t maintain a cutoff age for the senior discount; I figure, if you feel like you fit the bill and you want to save a buck, great, if not, that’s three dollars please (still a steal, no?)! So….if the secretly ageist terms listed above are off the table, whats a good alternative? I mean, I agree with you whole-heartedly, but a lot of my visitors of a certain age would demand a discount, so I’ve got to call it something! Ideas?

By the way, I encountered this post while image searching for Iris. God, she’s beyond amazing.

]]> By: Geri http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Geri Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:04:16 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=2261#comment-480 Hi Toby, See my blog yesterday about my teacher, Miss Leo. You gave me the idea to mention her. Geri Hi Toby,

See my blog yesterday about my teacher, Miss Leo. You gave me the idea to mention her.

Geri

]]> By: Geri http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Geri Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:04:57 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=2261#comment-418 Hi Toby, What a great point. Thank you. Geri Hi Toby,

What a great point. Thank you.

Geri

]]> By: Toby Wollin http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-417 Toby Wollin Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:27:33 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=2261#comment-417 The problem is that for our culture, you are either, as Golde Hawn's character in First Wive's Club says, "Babe, District Attorney, or Driving Miss Daisy". We are probably the first generation of women where there is an extended period between 'kids leave the house' and 'funeral home'. I remember my sixth grade teacher, in 1963, who we all swore had to have been at least 70 years old: she dressed old; she looked old, she walked old. I saw her when I graduated from college and she told me she'd just retired. She'd been in her mid-50s when I had her. Women in their 50s at that time WERE old. Not anymore. The problem is that for our culture, you are either, as Golde Hawn’s character in First Wive’s Club says, “Babe, District Attorney, or Driving Miss Daisy”. We are probably the first generation of women where there is an extended period between ‘kids leave the house’ and ‘funeral home’. I remember my sixth grade teacher, in 1963, who we all swore had to have been at least 70 years old: she dressed old; she looked old, she walked old. I saw her when I graduated from college and she told me she’d just retired. She’d been in her mid-50s when I had her. Women in their 50s at that time WERE old. Not anymore.

]]> By: Kirin http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/01/03/words-words-words-im-so-sick-of-words/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Kirin Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:43:30 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=2261#comment-416 Yup, you and Eliza have it right. They give me the creeps too. Yup, you and Eliza have it right. They give me the creeps too.

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