I was so offended by the cartoon in your Sunday Viewpoints section that I didn’t even read the commentary, as good as it might have been. You portrayed, what I consider to be a very enlightened generation, as old, decrepit and with one foot in the grave. Actually the cartoon did show that, in your opinion, those of us that are in our 60s would be in our graves by 70.
Your cartoon showed an average 62.5 year old with a cane, a 62.8 year old with a walker, and a 68.8 year old in a wheel chair … I am a soon to be 66. I am not in a wheelchair, nor do I use a cane or walker and neither do any of my friends and coworkers.
Your portrayal of the “older” generation is not only offensive but misleading and insulting. We are probably the most open-minded and well-educated generation there is. When I compare what I learned in school and what I continue to learn by reading and yes watching Fox news, and what the younger generation (those under 40) has learned, I am convinced that the younger generation has much to learn. The most important piece of education is to learn to think for yourself and to analyze the facts … and this is sorely missing in the education of the young.
I am not as technology literate as the young, but I do know how to think for myself, make up my own mind and use “their,” “they’re” and “there,” as well as “to,” “too” and “two” correctly. Unfortunately, your portrayal of my generation is encouraging the young to disrespect us and think of us as feeble both mentally and physically, both of which are false. You are quickly eliminating the one loyal base of your readers, those of us over 50, with offensive cartoons and opinions such as the one in Sunday’s paper.
Yvonne Lether
Everett
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