Then. Mount. A. Case. For. That. Not age semantics trying to rewrite factual history of his year of birth and age.
How out of touch with the real world are you to not see men and senior citizens complaining about this but nothing is ever done? Even in the article you can find links to cases about work discrimination. He knows he can't fight the system so he found a workaround.
Where was he wronged? When the state told him his birth year, and he happened to be born that year?
The state didn't decide his birth year, his parents did. By his logic, if people can legally change their gender, he can cut off almost 1/4 of his years, even losing the rights with it, like his retirement money. Whether his logic is right or wrong, he feels like he's being wronged and there's no case prior to this, so he has all the power to do so.
Having freedom to express my opinion means I can say whatever I want about a given situation within the lines of reason. My opinion is that he's making a mockery of the courts, and being on the fringe of creepy, because one of his facets is to change his age for tinder dating.
creepy
/ˈkriːpi/
adjectiveinformal
adjective: creepy; comparative adjective: creepier; superlative adjective: creepiest
causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.
Please do tell me how can a 69 years old bring "fear and unease" by wanting to legally change his age to 49 and being so "creepy" about it that he talked to journalists in public about it. It's like me going to the thread where people post their photos and calling pedophiles those with a mustache because of some nosense in my brain that goes "mustaches = pedophilia".
Deceit is deceit. If he thinks he's so young looking, he should try primping that factor to his favor, then. Not say "I don't wanna lie buuuuuut I wanna lie!"
Except that, by legally changing his day of birth, he wouldn't need to be lying. If he didn't put "49" as age on Tinder it means that he's a honest man, because as I said earlier, people in the app lie all the time. From body shape, to age, to relationship status and so on. But he didn't do that, he's trying to do it legally. This behavior is far from any name you've called him in this thread.
Legality is legality. Laws exist for a reason, to protect the state, and the citizens. If seniors are at a higher risk, then that's a problem seniors face. It's not ageist, it's statistics. Insurance rates blow regardless, but it's not like it's all unfounded.
By this logic, we should let black people pay a premium for life insurance because they commit a huge percent of crimes compared to white people. Or make women pay more car insurance than men because, under the same mileage, they make more carwreck than men. Except that we don't, because discrimination is bad. And by the way, teenagers under 25 commit a lot more car accidents than elder people.
If he's looking for 40, 30, or even 20 year loans when he's 70, yeah. Again, it's like the insurance. Avenues exist, assuming he has a good credit line, income, and ability to provide a down payment. But facts are, taking out loans are dangerous to banks when the lended might not be alive to pay it off fully. He is being deceitful to the ones providing a loan by not giving them his true age.
Yeah, ok. Good luck finding any bank that will give you a 40 years payment at 49. I'm sure that will work out just fine.
Have you seen his resume? The man is active. He has a better lifestyle than many teenagers. He won't get a 40 years loan like any other guy at 49, but he'd be getting 20 or 30 without issues.
Life has its ups and downs. Our society has age based restrictions to protect. Kids can't drink because they're prone to making bad decisions at that age. Seniors are likely to become frail, unable to work, likely to become sick, incapable. It's a part of life, and aging. It sucks, but he's going out of his way to not accept facts.
If a 70 years old man can go and complain that not enough women are letting him bang them, I can safely say that, for him, age doesn't seem to matter. We have seniors competing at the olympics, running mile after mile every day, working hard and so on. Not everyone like this, but these people definitely don't deserve to live a life paying taxes and then being treated like a child just because their ID says that they're from a generation that's "too old" to do stuff. If society cares so much about this, maybe we should let men retire at the same age as women, considering that they have shorter life averages because of how stressful their jobs are. But we won't, because society doesn't care. Senior citizens are seen as a burden, because they get "free money" from the government, when people seem to forget that they paid their whole life for someone else's retirement. And those people did the same, and so on.
You're not outwardly calling people names, but you've certainly got the tone as if you are.
Nope.
