Topic: Are gamers ageist?

I believe in labels as a neutral concept. Labels are descriptive terms meant to help identify what/who something/someone is. True, people use them negatively and falsely sometimes but honestly, you being bothered by the term is a sign you just need thicker skin (no offense). That being said though, ageist is a strange term to throw around. While age and maturity are not the same thing, they are intertwined to some extent, so I can understand why some people discourage others for not being old enough to really grasp a concept.

I don't like labels because I already have a label I gave myself. It's my name. It's the only thing strangers need to know about me. You want to know more? Then actually be willing to get to know who I really am, instead of trying to lump me in with a bunch of other people based on a loose set of characteristics your selective memory chose to identify me with.

Its like saying are white people ageist ? or are men ageist ? or are women ? (Some are / some are not).

I don't think labels are bad (well most of them anyway), but how they are used is bad

I agree with most of that. But I think you're missing something too. The problem with labels is that people generalise and create positive or negative attitudes towards certain labels for whatever reason. What then happens is that you get a huge problem when people who use that same label don't fit into your general attitude. You get bad people exploiting the benefits of operating under a positive label.
So when people get annoyed that people like me criticise religions and they come with the almost cliched response of "you're generalising", they always seem to forget the fact that religions are generalised in nearly every law in the western world (for their benefit). If you want to get tax free status, does it matter exactly what your church teaches? Nope, as long as it's christian it's fine. That's the double standard that labels create.

Depends what the issue is.
I'd sure at 13, I'd have loved to have soda for lunch every day. And I'm sure the Coca-Cola Company would love it too.
Once you get much older you realize what a bad idea that is. Having teeth is good.

Though I read about kids these days who don't like having fruit and such for lunch in cafeterias. I'd rather have that since that sounds like food.
The pizza and hamburgers we had back in my day sucked anyways.