🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Age Biased Language?

Does age biased language pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation the matter of arms for the
pub Test and today we're talking about banning words like
boomer and millennial. Does this pass the pub Test?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Age biased language? It's called And this week the West
Australian Government has launched a Challenge Your Bias campaign saying
that words like boomer and millennial have connotations that are
no longer appropriate. Ageism is the last ism that we
seem to be living with, and as I get older,
I'm very aware of it. It's very easy to be
dismissed because you're older, but millennials must feel it too,
dismissed because they're young and inexperienced and all the connotations

(00:35):
of flakiness that goes with that, which isn't true. But
it's an easy joke to make same about boomers.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
And now it's good banter as well. Had a Ryan
and you enjoyed working those hard hours nine till eleven
is hard work? Like do you need to take a day?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
But that's why we're doing this, Brandon.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
That you're not taking a day.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You're not listening tonight, that it's not about This is
how we knock those stereotypes on the head by stuff
with language. This is how we've conquered the other ones.
Start with being aware of your language and the bias
in your language. I'm aware that that it's very easy
to be dismissed as someone who as boomer. The word
says you can't learn new tricks. You too are More

(01:13):
and more people are just staying in the workforce, and
I find it very irritating to have those words used.
How do you feel banning words like boomer or millennial?
Does it past the pub test?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah? I do take exception to it because I've been
victim of ages and trying to get jobs for young managers.
What else fucks like me? So yeah, let's get rid
of the words as it would start maybe changing. It's
all up to interpretation, and I think we are all
getting very control and what shared and what not shared.

(01:44):
I never thought of it like that. I thought it
was just an age.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Now with it, I sure does, mate. I love the
word boomer because it sums up the generations that are
basically stucking the life out of all the younger generation. Financially,
they destroyed our environment and now they want more, and
the younger generations are standing up and naming it for
what it is.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, father, I say they should do away with bloomers
and all that type of thing. I was born in
nineteen fifty nine and I do not class myself as
a baby boomer. They don't see me.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
As an old dude. I just is still alive.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
We're going to do away with it.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Look, I think we're in the OS generation.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Ever since it is can't call someone men or woman,
can't call someone husband and wife.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
People need to get over it.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Jeez, it passed the pup test.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
What next.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
You can't call a banana a banana, an apple or apple?
It doesn't. Yeah, get rid of agism. You're never too
old and.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
We can contribute to society. We have a lot to ours.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Never too old to rocking roll.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Never too old to rock and roll.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Just call everything fruit, thank you for my shoulders or something.
Don't be friends.