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> Mind you, we are talking about people older than 45. I wish we could drop the casual ageism, age has nothing to do with it. You might as well tell me they're
by m0nty 11y ago
> Mind you, we are talking about people older than 45.
I wish we could drop the casual ageism, age has nothing to do with it. You might as well tell me they're left-handed and that's why they can't "do" passwords. Difficult enough already (in social terms) without the blanket presumption we're all non-compos mentis as well.
- FooBarWidget 11y agoAnd I wish that we could stop focussing on the ageism, as if that's the most important point or whether it's even a negative point. I used ageism to reinforce the notion that we should try harder to push for convenient security. It wasn't meant in a pejorative way. Maybe your point was that ageism isn't acceptable in any form. We'll have to disagree there. I agree that pejorative ageism isn't acceptable, but doing away with ageism entirely is pretending that something real doesn't exist. Sure, not all young people are computer geniuses, and not all old people are computer illiterate -- I never said that, but that doesn't matter because focusing on that just detracts from the core point I was trying to make.