The Elephant in the Room: Age and Gender in a Tradition Bound Male Dominated Industry

After The Tones Drop

This one’s gonna hit close to home, so if you’re easily offended, you might want to sit this one out. Thanks to a brave listener who reached out via email sharing her personal experience as a corrections officer, we’re taking a hard look at something that’s been festering in the world for too long—ageism and gender bias. Yeah, it’s not a comfortable topic, but that’s exactly why we’re diving into it.

Let’s face it: at times, our young recruits and female first responders are getting treated like second-class citizens. They’re belittled, dismissed, and told they need to "pay their dues" while we’re out here complaining about staffing shortages. Make it make sense, right? It almost feels like the classic case of wanting your cake and eating it too—except the cake’s stale, and nobody wants to admit it.

We’re pulling back the curtain on the age-old tradition of older generations griping about the younger ones—in some ways, we too are not exempt. It’s been around forever, but that doesn’t give us a free pass to keep it going. This episode is all about breaking down barriers and challenging the possibility of an outdated mindset that’s holding us back.

So tune in for a raw, unfiltered conversation about why it may be time consider opening our minds, and start treating each other with the respect we all deserve. Because when it comes down to it, we’re stronger together and we’re all humans doing the best we can with where we are in this moment.

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