#tw: ageism

[chososdoll]

i've been on an unofficial hiatus but noticed this in my inbox and felt the need to respond. more so for my other "older" moots/followers - which feels super gross to type because if you actually think 30 is old you really need to look at yourself & your yucky perception on age.

what actually is the problem here lmao? what is an appropriate age to make “adult content”? i’m still in love with my interests no matter my age as should everyone. anon, i hope you love yourself enough not to deny anything that means a lot to you and not feel like you’re on any time limit to be part of a fandom - because i sure as hell don’t.

i've been on tumblr since i was 13/14 the first true era of tumblr, like this is my HOME! i grew up here! i've been honest about my age since i made this new blog, it would be a problem if i was lying about it - i could've easily just put "twenties." like every other cutesy blog but i chose not to because i do think it's best to be upfront and honest! i’ll never be ashamed of it so… nice try :3

if anyone feels they're too old to be on tumblr please swiftly tell those thoughts to go away. there are no restrictions or limits or a time where you will no longer be welcome here. everyone has something to give - your experiences, your memories, your relatability is very important - we're absolutely valid.

#𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔶 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔰? 🖋️ #ageism in this community is so gross when we are the reason this site still exists lmao #yucky yuck #tw: vent #tw: ageism

[dejwrld]

hate to say this, but i be a lil ageist to boomers who call millennials & gen z lazy. like bro we’re tired. we literally work so hard for the goal post to constantly be moved.

#calling gen z and millennials lazy while that’s the same generations who are going to wiping your ass in retirement homes insane #fuckin’ old farts! #tw: ageism

[paulmescal-s]

Fandom (Twitter-specific, at the moment) whinging behind the cut:

If I see another person commenting on how Pedro’s weight has made him look “healthier”, “happier”, or “younger”, I am going to blow my fucking gasket.

Amazing how many are so ready to embrace their fatphobic, ageist selves. I hope people will see them for who they really are — not fans, not really, but fetishizers.

#tw: fandom wank #tw: discourse #tw: fatphobia #tw: ageism #pedro pascal fandom

[doctorofmagic]

🤡

Midnight Suns #5 (2023)

#agatha harkness #wednesday tomes #marvel comics #everything that came from wandavision is a mistake #except for monica but she deserved her OWN origin without having her powers linked to wanda's #wandavision is actually my joker origin story and dsitmom is the consequence of my madness #god forbid women be old in media #tw: ageism

[theghostofloganroy]

Anyone under eighteen is either: adorable or a little shit but I will never hate them.

Because hating on a child is fucking weird.

#mental health #children #Tw: ageism #ageism

[never-took-a-lesson]

Joking aside, picking on Forte for his age or for looking “old” is actually a particularly hurtful thing for him.

Aside from ageism being bad of course, Forte was traumatized into obsessing over his youth. He was threatened, in his first household, that if he began to lose his youthful looks, he would be worthless and cast aside. Obviously, looking 18 forever was impossible. Now, Forte is stuck in an aged body that he hates, seeing every imperfection as a mark against his worthiness to live.

#ooc #hc #tw: trauma #tw: ageism

[pikaglove]

Old people used to get beaten by their alcoholic husbands but have the audacity to claim your boyfriend isn't treating you right because he asked if you could pay for gas 😒

#old people #tw: domestic violence #tw: alcholism #old people suck #imma just say it #i fucking hate old people #didn't want to become an ageist but too many old people act up and I can't help but go: “you people have rights.... and are in power” #tw: ageism #abusive family #old people are like todlers only worse #because a todler will throw tantrums and act like theyre right #but at the end of the day they're gonna come to me and ask I wipe their ass #they dont know any better they just have big emotions #old people do the same shit but have enough cognitive function to know better #like I'm sorry but I can not pretend that we should let half of these old folks out in public anymore without a guardian #I'll tell you that I am mostly angry at the system that made them this way #the trauma they dealt with plus the fact that most old folks hate the idea of mental health advocacy has made them who they are #if these guys got actual help then maybe they wouldn't be so fucked up half the time.

[monsterdramahub]

Mods are asleep. Post hot takes.

Hate when people take characters and sand off all their rough features to make them more conveniently attractive. I just. Highkey hate conventional attractiveness anyway.

I cannot stand the idea of my characters being “sexyfied”. No no. The entire point is not being conventionally attractive. They’re scrungy bois.

Having a softer art style is fine of course. I’m more talking… erasing fatness, or age, or “unattractive” features and stuff.

#tw: fatphobia #tw: ageism

[100yearoldcomics]

August 11, 1922 The Five Fifteen by E.C. Segar

[ID: Uncle Amos and John Sappo stand around in a park, happily smoking - Amos his pipe, Sappo a cigar. Children mill about behind them. /end] Amos: Ain't it nice to be out here in this park among the children? These big cities have fine parks, all right.

[ID: Amos walks off. Sappo stands and watches curiously. /end] Amos: There's a cute little girl over there. I'll give her a penny. [INFLATION GUIDE: In 2022 dollars, that'd be like giving a kid 18 cents. /end]

[ID: Sappo rushes after Amos. /end] Sappo: Hey Uncle, come back here.

[ID: Amos approaches a young-looking woman with a large sun hat, white blouse, short black skirt and black high heels. /end] Amos: Hello, little girl, would you like to have a penny?

[ID: The girl turns around and reveals herself to be significantly older than Amos expected. /end] Girl: SIR!! Amos: ?!?

[ID: Amos faints into Sappo's arms. Sappo fans him off with his straw hat while he calls for passersby to get help. /end] Sappo: Will somebody please call an ambulance! Passersby: ! ! ?

#newspaper comics #vintage #history #1922 #the 5:15 #sappo #transcript available #1920s #questionable etiquette #tw: ageism #oh no! old women! #penny for your thots

[maureendsouza]

Character Intro – Maureen D'Souza

Basics

Full name: Maureen Aspen D'Souza Age: 25 Gender & pronouns: cis female & she/her Hometown: Lunar Cove Species: Human Occupation: Actress at The Pendulum Playhouse

Background

tw: little bit of ageism

Her parents are wicked old, probably currently in their 70's. The rest of her siblings are solidly older than her and this made it super clear to Maureen that she was an 'accident'. She's got a wicked complex about it and death as a concept. She doesn't want to ever be elderly while the rest of her family is so young, literally scares her SO much. Due to this, she really wants to become immortal. She really leaned into acting as a means to fully escape from her fears; what's death mean to someone who can microdose being anyone? Maureen likes that she can, at least in some small way, live hundreds of lives by just stepping onstage.

Wanted Connections

She's lived in Lunar Cove for her entire life and certainly has picked up a good handful of friends either from part-time jobs, school, or childhood! HMU Someone she's done theatre with, either at the Playhouse or in high school. Neighbors! People who live in the same Downtown apartment complex as her would be super cool. A vampire who she can thirst after maybe form a friendship or something more for her to like either pursue that sweet sweet immortality or dissuade her from the very concept. Ex-girlfriends! My beloved has probably dated a handful of girls that were either semi-serious things or on the cusp of being serious. It could've ended amicably or horribly! Just hmu and we can cobble something together.

#tw: ageism #it's a light mention but still worth it imo #tw: existentialism #character development

[dhampiravidi]

I don’t talk about it much in threads, but my OCs (especially those who are WOC) do face discrimination on occasion.

(tw: ageism, sexism, racism, etc.)

Jayn: even YEARS after releasing the official results of a DNA test to the media, some still claim she can’t possibly be her father’s daughter, simply because she doesn’t have light skin. A few of those she works with dislike & undermine her purely due to her age, race, sex &/or sexuality.

Naela: some Westerosi do not take her seriously because her mother is from Dorne, a kingdom known for its much more liberal customs. One of these customs includes accepting various sexualities & religions—ones like bisexuality & the Faith of R’hllor, which Naela identifies with.

Achilles: half of his fights start with someone making fun of the traditionally “feminine” things he wears to express his gender fluidity (or saying something cruel to one of his lovers). He’s also openly pansexual.

Jasmine: like Jayn, she’s biracial in pretty much every one of her verses, so there’s that. In TSC & The Covenant, she’s feared/somewhat hated for her magical abilities. The Clave in TSC is intially very conservative in pretty much every way, which doesn’t help.

Skadi: her height makes her a target for some. In Marvel & DnD, her parents are from rival races, so she can’t be among one w/o hearing some shit. As a kid (in the Marvel verse), she shaved off her hair to be like her father’s people (who are hairless), but later on, she grew it out partly because some Asgardian women kept calling her ugly.

Oraia: though she can shapeshift, she typically retains her brown skin, which has made her a target of racial discrimination on Earth for centuries. In Supernatural, Heaven is cruel to her people, the pagan deities, for kind of no logical reason (on top of that, they make her work for them by threatening her brother).

Hestia: In her Marvel verse, her dad is Cantonese while her mom is (White) Québécois. But her childhood bullies hurt her because she was a ballet/soccer prodigy & this only became worse after her mutant gene kicked in. I often write her as part of a poly trio w/Gambit & Rogue, so I’m sure someone would have a problem w/that IRL. & obviously all mutants in Marvel do not usually have a good time. In the Hunger Games verse, Hestia is treated w/suspicion by her District because she came from the Capitol (they aren’t actually wrong though, since she acts as a spy until the Rebellion).

Rose: In her historical era, her homosexuality isn’t usually accepted.

Aurelia: though she’s very confident in who she is, some try to make snide comments about her body, height, race & sexuality…assuming they’re brave enough to say it to her face.

Rela: some Twi’lek who were not raised as Jedi speak her first & last name separately. In Twi’lek culture, doing so dishonors the name. Rela faces this because she was not raised by her own people (though her parents actually had her until she was 3). Also, it’s widely known that Twi’leks are (in-canon) sold as slaves on some planets, where they’re valued only for their beauty. This helps Rela when she goes undercover, though. Zehara: during the Hundred-Year War, her race sometimes keeps people from trading w/her, since the Fire Nation is seen as the enemy of the other 3 nations. Also, many underestimate her in fights due to her age & sex.

Eugenia: if she dates Damon, she has to come to terms w/the fact that he fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War (even though he’s not racist & he’s dated other Black women).

Shayera: a good chunk of the DC Universe hates aliens & treats them as unwanted immigrants. Physically, many humans think she resembles someone of Latina heritage, so if they’re racist towards POC, they’re probably going to be rude to her.

Mu Lan: she had to pretend to be a man while in the military because women/females weren’t allowed to serve. In England, she’s often looked down upon due to her social status, race, accented speech & sex.

Monet: some asshole is always mad about her being a pretty, wealthy, brown-skinned liberal Muslim woman. Oh & she’s a mutant in Marvel.

Renée Michele: her parents are a poly trio, she’s a mutant (who had to wear sunglasses as a kid to cover up her unusual-colored eyes), she’s genderfluid (she/they), she’s bisexual & she’s visibly part-Chinese, she speaks w/a Southern accent using Cajun slang…(it’s a lot)

Rhea Livia: she skipped a grade (though not everyone in town knows that), she’s biracial (Black & White) & she was raised by her 2 moms, who are casual friends w/her dad.

#my ocs #admin #racism tw #tw: racism #sexism tw #tw: sexism #ageism tw #tw: ageism #body shaming tw #tw: body shaming #discrimination #discrimination tw #tw: discrimination

[compassionatereminders]

I am reading this book where at a point the author goes "being 30 means waking up in pain every day" and while I know ageism has rotted minds worldwide I genuinely don't think that is the inevitable curse of getting old arriving at 30 sharp. Girl you ought to consider the concept of disability in a personal context

#kat gets personal #ageism tw

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

something something ageism is a real problem and not just something boomers use to complain abt gen z and if you really care about mistreatment of kids and elderly abuse you need to pay attention to it instead of treating it like some kind of diet oppression. something something

#mistreatment of kids is an ageism problem #elderly abuse is an ageism problem #if you want to stop them you HAVE to acknowledge ageism #abuse tw #ageism

[doctorofmagic]

Charlize is only a couple years older than Rachel McAdams. She is not old. just SAY you hate a character that's had 10 seconds of screentime bc ur upset that an ESTABLISHED unhealthy relationship is most likely NOT going to be canon. I'm SORRY but I HATE the age argument!! Nobody's complaining about anyone else!! Mr. Krasinski isn't that much younger and NOBODY is complaining about him!! If being 46 is too old for an actor be in the MCU then I guess we need to get rid of Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L Jackson, Don Cheadle, Vin Diesel, Benedict Wong, Angelina Jolie (who is OLDER THAN HER), and while he's already gone, RDJ*. Her age has NOTHING to do with it.

*my personal opinion of these actors are not reflectant from this list. (I do not "stan" actors on principal.) I am pointing out that the age argument is just so ??????

This argument is basically ageism and misogyny. Look at the bs I’ve seen in the past weeks, not to mention the things I already posted.

THEY'RE JUST ONE YEAR APART WTF. Also Rachel McAdams is 43, just two years younger than Benedict.

This only confirms that this "argument" is actually a thing™ and is more common than it seems.

There's literally nothing preventing Charlize from being wonderful in this role except people using bias and prejudice to diminish a woman.

You don't see people complaining about the age of the male actors, and this explains so much about how rotten some fans are to the core.

And yes, yes, it's not like we "stan" actors but we must point out that there's a problem with Clea and this problem is people using a ship to attack and diminish another woman through ageism, which is absurdly bonkers.

Willem Dafoe is 66 and made all his stunts in NWH. You don't see a single person complaining about his age and performance. So why a woman in her 46 should be a problem if not for the sake of misogyny and ageism? They can't even hide they're incapable of sorority.

And honestly, if people who are reading this vouch for this behavior, please do me a favor and block me. You're not a Stephen stan, you're just a terrible person and I don't want to see you in the fandom. Be better. We don't need you.

PS: please do not harass these people, they want attention and you’d only be feeding the trolls. Just block them and move on. Thanks.

#how can the sorcerer supreme be of assistance? #ask #discourse #tw: ageism #tw: misogyny #charlize theron #benedict cumberbatch #rachel mcadams #honestly i could say i expected better but we're in mcu territory

[never-took-a-lesson]

“It must be so hard to live an immortal life stuck at a young age where society considers you conventionally attractive. Oh, my heart bleeds. Try being fifty for eternity and being subject to endless ageism. This is infinitely worse when I’m presenting as a woman.”

#ic #immortal middle aged nb problems #tw: ageism #tw: sexism

[sillymcrandom]

guys if you’re gonna address kids for being uneducated about a certain topic maybe dont be overly hostile to them and being like “oh you dumb fucking minors stupid kids” and overall just being super ageist/childist/whatever word you wanna use instead of kindly educating them thanksss

#like for example earlier i saw a stitch on tiktok of someone responding to a video someone made shitting on murrsuiting and the person #that stitched them was just saying some super ageist shit to them like maybe dont do that do your taxes bro instead of shitting on an #already oppressed group bc someone is uneducated about something #jesus #youth liberation #youth lib #ageism #sex ment tw #childism