I would agree but the '85 year old' reeks of agism.

Good idea! I am for it and maybe we should have the opposite too as I am sure some men must be plagued by women talking about mens issues. We are all just humans in my book and deserve exactly the same respect and if they go past that point what consequences could there be? I have walked away and stopped talking ot an old man who was treating me like a little girl when I am 70 plus but if hte boot was on the other foot I would make sure I wasnt being intrusive.

Change! Absolutely! And it is going to require women, especially white women, to stop putting other priorities ahead of defense of basic human rights. Things like racism, religious-fueled paranoia, and hatred of labels like "Democrat" or "socialism," labels that apparently countless have such a knee-jerk negative visceral reaction to that it overrides any opinions that might actually have about a host of policy issues that matter to them. I am thinking, most painfully, of the example of what happened in the 2016 election cycle, when the majority of white women who bothered to vote voted for Trump rather than Hillary Clinton, a woman who, regardless of her many targets for criticism, was a tireless champion for women's rights, lgbt rights, children's protection. Not only did a plurality of voters (progressives for whom Hill wasn't pure enough likely stayed home rather than vote) apparently put Trump in the White House; they also handed Congress to Republicans. So, predictably, we are now seeing the Supreme Court jerked even further to the right. Politics is filthy, but if we don't pay attention and participate, the most vile, fundamentalist anti-women zealots certainly will do it for us.