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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Age-ism and the gay community
- In-Reply-To: 00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu's message of 18 Dec 92 07:10:33 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:01:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.021033.13179@bsu-ucs> 00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
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- Everyone talks about racism.... and sexism.... and, here recently, heightism.
- But i want alk about something of significant importance to me and thousands
- of other of teh gay youth:
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- AGEISM!!!
-
- As with all things like this, I have to ask: "If your age is that
- important to the person, is it a person you care to associate with?"
-
- People who have a real problem with age are usually insecure about
- themselves in some way.
-
- I had to deal with this a lot, for a long time. Only now am I working
- somewhere where I'm not the youngest person. And only in the last few
- years have people stopped treating me "differently" based on age.
-
- In the meantime, I found lots of people who weren't ageist, and they
- were the ones who were most interesting to be around.
- --
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- - Ronald Hayden
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