Easy Sunday: Take the day off and laugh.

I feel entitled to laugh at the foolish incapacities of old folks.

I can take a joke.

I don't consider it ageist in a negative way, and I don't feel guilty about laughing at this Saturday Night Live bit. I see it as human, or humane even. I like it. It recognizes, in the exaggerated way that humor does, some characteristics of humans as we pass through phases of life.

I perceive it as essentially accepting and affirming the nature of the elderly. I don't think it is cruel or insulting any more than would be a comedy sketch or video that noted that toddlers stumble and fall. Yeah, we old people sometimes struggle with new technology, some of us don't hear well, some of us ramble in relating stories. That's life. That's real. It is OK to acknowledge it. 

I think that what is ageist -- and pointless -- is to deny some of the changes we go through.

Here it is on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/YvT_gqs5ETk?si=n8g5KlMM9spZjMCk

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