This is part of what makes it infuriating — and, yes, sad — when we find ourselves as older people dismissed, demeaned, treated like rubbish.
Or as we witness in the ongoing spectacle of the feeding frenzy of corporate media about Biden's (but not Trump's!) age, a frenzy driven — how can we not notice? — largely by younger commentators who will one day be old, if they live long, and will surely not enjoy being treated in this way when they are elderly….