A private school having a " Dress-up as an old lady day"

hollydolly said:
lol... I think they should make the boys dress up as old ladies and the girls old men... just a bit of fun for the kids.

I remember when I was little lots of little kids would be outside walking around in their mums high heels or their dads shoes... just because they wanted to play at being a grown up...


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Times have changed. And you are just perpetuating "the old lady image " and then you wonder why younger people don't respect older/elderly people.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Depending on how old the children are, it could be used as a learning opportunity…. Lots of people found their vocation or launched a new passion as an older age…. We could hold these people up as models.

Or how about showing them (again, based on age) how an older man or woman they see was (saying during WWII or Vietnam) a vital young person that contributed to the freedoms they enjoy now or did deeds of valor. Kids s lot of times have trouble imagining an older person as anything other than “old”
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Oh, I totally agree with you!!
 
Beezer said:
Kids dressing up as grown-ups is timeless. I think you picked the wrong hill to die on.
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I can't see myself getting all offended over something like this. If I'm dottery and a kid points it out.... well heck, I already knew it, so no offense. There are *so* many offense-worthy things going on in the world! Around Christmas, my dad's cousin (age 93 or 94 now) was sitting in a park and a little girl came up to her and said "you're old, you're REALLY old!" She just said "why yes, yes I certainly am!" They both giggled. What some consider an offense could actually be used as a bonding moment.
 
CallMeKate said:
Good eye! It almost looks like an AI generated picture that didn't quite get the top of the cane lined up right, doesn't it? It's like an extra part of the cane that doesn't belong there. :unsure: @Flarbalard
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That was my first thought, a photo shopped pic. Second thought was, "I didn't get MY retirement bratwurst". My third thought was that they were portraying Lorena and John Bobbitt as OAP's. Not sure what is more disturbing that as a scenario or that I thought of that in the first place.
 
LoveTulips said:
I'm in a FB community group and one of the mothers is asking for suggestions on how to dress her child up as an old lady. The child is in a private school and they are having a " Dress up as an Old Lady Day". Well this was my response to her query, " Really, an old lady day? This is discrimination supporting Ageism. I'm in my 70's and I dress just like any other younger woman, fashionable but appropriate for my age. What kind of school is this that supports this view?" Some of the responses to this lady's post were like mine but many were suggesting an old grey wig, curlers, canes, etc.
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How do you feel about the videos of seniors as cheerleaders or dancing in young outfits pretending to be J-lo?
Do we all need to stay in our lane all the time?
 
hollydolly said:
It's a bad photo shop...
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Nope, I made that in Microsoft Bing Image Creator. It's free. It's an Prompt driven image creator. My prompt was "kids at school dressed as old people with wigs". It created 4 pictures, I chose which one looked the best and copied it and pasted it here. AI has a bunch of "creators right now. THAT is why we need to get involved with it now, because if it falls into the wrong hands, of which is surely will, it will wreak havoc with misinformation. With pictures and video ( it is coming fast ).
 
Paco Dennis said:
Nope, I made that in Microsoft Bing Image Creator. It's free. It's an Prompt driven image creator. My prompt was "kids at school dressed as old people with wigs". It created 4 pictures, I chose which one looked the best and copied it and pasted it here. AI has a bunch of "creators right now. THAT is why we need to get involved with it now, because if it falls into the wrong hands, of which is surely will, it will wreak havoc with misinformation. With pictures and video ( it is coming fast ).
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yes my comment was because two of the kids have 2 walking stick handles...
 
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