Pissed old men, vinegars, dinosaurs, senile, useless, prostatic, screwed up, rats, idiots. Words, criteria or metaphors of old age bordering on grievance, disqualification and rejection.
Old-age prejudice has taken unprecedented forms where the disqualification of others, for the simple fact of being older, becomes a tool of war between generations. What is unusual with this discourse is the violence with which this discourse was installed. For some they may be just words for others, including myself, but they are the way to build a reality in which old can leave.