Jane Caro ageism row sparked by baker's comment to husband Ralph Dunning trends now
View
comments
TV personality Jane Caro has copped an intense backlash after complaining that her husband was 'humiliated' by a bakery assistant making a 'throwaway joke' ironically referring to the 68-year-old as a 'young man'.
In a Sunday Sydney Morning Herald column, the social commentator asserted her partner, Ralph Dunning, returned 'not just flustered but upset' after 'the bloke behind the counter' at a bakery said: 'And what can we do for you, young man?'
'Being 65 myself, I knew exactly why he felt so outraged and humiliated,' Caro wrote.
'It is always a shock when we find ourselves being treated differently simply because of the length of time we have spent on the planet.'
But many young people online slammed Caro for over-reacting to the light-hearted jab, calling the couple's 'triggering' ordeal 'first world problems'.
Jane Caro (pictured right) shared her husband's 'humiliation and outrage' at a youthful bakery worker making a joke about him being 'young man'
'Imagine you're a teenager working minimum wage at a bakery, next second Jane Caro accuses you of a hate crime,' one wrote.
'My god that was a million times more innocuous than I was expecting,' another said.
'Omg... The most ridiculous 1st world problem I've heard in ages,' a third wrote.
Caro argued the baker's comment was 'particularly offensive because of the many ignorant assumptions it contained'
