I've seen so much ageism having worked for years in the SF Bay Area. When I worked at c|net, I was only 36 but even so, people held me at arm's length. Nobody else was married with a kid. I was never accepted as one of them.

My husband got the boot after 17 years at the same company during the 2008 recession. So did a lot of our friends. His company was an HMO and didn't need to lay people off but they took the opportunity to get rid of the older workers. Their benefits are too expense and their salaries had gotten too high. Was anybody going to sue? What and lose the extra months of insurance and severance pay? Not a chance.

In spite of dozens of in person interviews, it took him three years (yes, three) to land a job. We had to move to the East Coast for people to respect his worth. The damage that three years he was out of work did to our lives and our financial future, I don't even want to think about.

I'm also getting really pissed off at these anti-boomer listicles and rants. Oh, yeah. We had it so great. The unchecked sexual harassment, the pantyhose, the 60-hour work weeks without video games, beer-on-tap, and on-call massage therapists in the office.

I read a list about "gross boomer-invented food" that included cornflakes, TV dinners, savory Jello, and meatloaf. Hang that on the Greatest Generation and their parents. We boomers weren't inventing anything at the time but what ended up in our diapers. The ignorance of some people makes my head want to explode.

My hair is waist-length and my husband loves it. So there!