Vocal Voices

A young NZ MP, Chloe Swarbrick, used the term to allow an interruption from an older MP and by the reaction you would think she had shot him with a poisoned dart. She has even been accused of ageism by some boomers and their offspring, the Gen Xers.

At least she was being honest, unlike our MPs who allow interruptions from their 'right honourable friends' when they are neither honourable nor friends, but hey!

I guess that as a Gen Yer, or millennial, she should know better - know her place - unlike the Gen Zer, St Greta, who is too young to care and is simply infused with youthful enthusiasm for her cause.

Don't you just love all this stuff?

I'm a Baby Boomer too, just about, and don't see the problem with it really

It seems to me that there are too many people taking too much offence over just about everything these days ……

I wonder how Ms Swarbrick would have reacted if the old geezer had replied "Cheers, whippersnapper" ......

I entirely agree Ossie. People are taking offence on just about everything - usually on behalf of someone else. Whatever happened to 'plain speaking'.

TheOstrich wrote:It seems to me that there are too many people taking too much offence over just about everything these days ……

Quite so. But what makes this instance unique is that it is an older person taking offence.

And why not? The usual professional offence takers have had it their own way for too long. It's about time that they were told that they are extremely offensive, and hat are they going to do about it?

Then sit back and watch the confusion.

Many of us on here are baby boomers and the phrase would have whizzed by without a second thought, as it appeared to have done with the man himself. Then up pop the 'professionals' with their faux anger and accuse her, a 'millennial' of being 'ageist'.

They are using the opposite equivalents of what she said, but it's OK because they are ever so 'woke'.