Ageism in Audiophilia

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  1. willc

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    I walked around the show. The busiest rooms were the Nitsch Audio room and ETA guys. Everybody was talking about the Magni Piety. The ETA room was cool because it had lots of young Asian millennials and no old pedo guys. Dan Clark's room was busy too. His table was set up nicely. Dan was super friendly. He waved everyone in and showed people his headphones. People said his headphones were overpriced. The Magnepan room had a creepy old person in front of it. I didn't go inside.
     
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    I hope this is a joke. Even so, it's a bad one.
     
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    Bruh. Are you an old pedo guy?
     
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    I've always had a soft spot for maggies but I'm surprised they had some queuing system up to hear their products.

    It's a true gen Z take, more of what we need around here with 40 year olds being the "young uns."
     
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    Did they disclose that they were registered sex offenders? If not, this doesn't belong in this thread.
     
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    I think you guys haven't been to some of the SF Bay Area meets where I've thrown out people for taking creeper pics and being generally creepo AF.
     
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    That's horrible. But just because some guys are +35 and male does not automatically make them pedos. Anyway, let's move on.
     
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    Some of you guys are overreacting. Get off the computer and wang down, hang out with your other half.
     
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    Ever wondered why women don't go to these things? Let's say my daughter, who worked at the front desk, was not always comfortable. It's different being a woman and I'm not going to doubt their perv radar while at the same time insist they wear ninja outfits so men don't slobber over them.

    With respect to ageism, I'd like to say that it's difficult to work with people who are over 50 in this industry (It was over 55 yesterday). The old school, the old media way.

    For what it's worth, I'm over 50 (physically). What I mean is spiritual age. It's the attitude and approach. Old school audiophiledom with the King-Makers at Stereophile and TAS. They are becoming inconsequential. It's guys like Josh Valour, Randy / Cheap Audio Man, and sites like HF, ASR, SBAF which are the future.

    The future of audio is with the young. Heck I will be dead decades before most of you. Old people who hold on and don't want to move with the times, don't want to hand over the reigns to the next generation, they are the worst.

    Sorry old guys, and that includes myself: we are going to be dead decades before the main age demographic of this site. We can't take it with us when we are dead, so the best thing to do is entrust it to the next generation.
     
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    Take "old pedo" figuratively, not literally, nor associatively between the two words.

    Are you a pedo? If not, take no offense.
    Do you act like Mr. Burns (Simpsons). If not, take no offense.

    I'm not exactly a spring chicken anymore.
     
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    You guys are killing the vibe. It was a joke, move on.
     
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    For an online social experiment, that was interesting.

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    Colloquial off-the-cuff Gen-Z speak doesn't come off well, that is understood, on older new-media forums such as this.
     
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    A bad an offensive joke and needed to be called out, that is all.

    Not just slightly offensive, borderline disrespectful and blatantly rude.

    How is the old guard supposed to bring in the young guard when they automatically get called pedophiles?

    If a person has issues and sees a room of +35 dudes and assumes "pedophiles", then that is their problem. It seems like there is other stuff going on. "Grandpa", "over the hill", "past their prime" ..whatever. Make fun of me because I am old. I have grey hair, who gives AF? But "pedo" just seems to cross a line, that is all. And just because it is Gen-Z speak should not make it acceptable.
     
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    It absolutely shouldn't be acceptable. I find this sort of pseudo-macho internet bullshit repulsive, and seeing it defended by another member of staff (also, who the f**k is willc? have I just forgotten cause its been so long? why are they staff?) is downright depressing.

    Im all for taking down the "man" and and encouraging the younger members of the community to stand up and take the reins, to take the power away from the old guard and magazines etc.

    Im also 100 percent on board with kicking creepers out of the meet if they exist, Marv, your daughter feeling uncomfortable sounds like the perfect barometer to not let people into the meet at all. and it sucks that SF meets seemingly had to put up with people behaving in such a manner.


    None of that changes the fact that the original comment, even if it was a joke, was disgusting and rude, and if I was ETA I wouldn't want my name anywhere near that incredibly childish behavior. At no point should "pedo" or the lack thereof be brandished as some sort of internet coolguy kudos points to one of the rooms at the meet, implying that "pedos" somehow made all the other rooms worse.
     
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    If I went i'd probably be lumped into the old pedo guy filing system from first glance. I kind of have a tan though so maybe not, probably be better if I was clean shaved and didn't wear a SLEEP shirt and not be really high on weed. I'm a perv but no pedo !
     
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    Ignoring all of the other back and forth in this thread... Wow... that bad?
     
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    You don't have kids do you? Kids making fun of you for being old, e.g. ewww, Facebook, that's for old people; Dad, your bald spot is getting bigger; Dad bod/belly, boomer, etc.

    I really don't even know what you are worried about unless you see actually yourself as an old pedo guy.

    Heck, I've been called "little Asian man" , directly called that by ex-members of this site. Just man up or age up and flick it off your shoulder. The benefit of age is the wisdom to do so.

    You know what I say back to the young ones: karma.
     
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