Cruel jokes about the old are everywhere. When will we face our ageism epidemic? | Francine Prose

We tolerate mockery of the elderly that we'd never allow if it targeted another group. But we'll all be old one day Watching Saturday Night Live over the past few seasons, I've noticed the increasing number and frequency of jokes about old people: the feebleness of the aging brain, the repulsiveness of the elderly body, particularly the elderly female body. Partly because no one, it seems, is ever "called out" for ageism - I can't think of one public figure who has been "cancelled" for mocking t...