Unlike those other areas, which I think can be combatted through cultural change and pressure, ageism is one that I think will remain a great deal more stubborn

Unlike those other areas, which I think can be combatted through cultural change and pressure, ageism is one that I think will remain a great deal more stubborn and resistant to change, and I don't feel that I have anything really useful to suggest other than "be aware of it and try not to be ageist." I could certainly be wrong, and I hope am. I just don't feel particularly hopeful about it. There's a comparable bias I don't think societies will have much luck with, either: "ugliness bias": http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203687504576655331418204842 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702036875045766553... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8765360/Does-being-ugly-make-you-poor.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8765360/Does-be... I just don't see good ways of fixing that. (There's also "height bias", but I actually think that one might be fixable culturally.) Edit: I know it seems defeatist, and maybe it is, but it's an area I just don't feel hopeful about.