Oh, this is one for the ages, Al. I couldn't have expressed how I feel more articularly than you did in this story. Yes. I am continually marginalized because I am a "woman of a certain age" and being so, am nothing more than a dried-up husk of no use to anyone.
But there's an upside to being shit on: And that's this: I no longer give a FF what people think, especially, the empty-headed yokels on KinkedIn. (Brilliant, by the way.)
I don't give a shit what the testerical dudes think about me, or the women who believe that other women who flaunt their tits and ass on a so-called "professional" site are "empowering." They're the most pathetic group of all.
I would love to see what the response is to this story on KI, itself. Probably, none, which proves how truly ball-less most of the people there, are. I know that whenever I attempt to initiate discussions on age discrimination in the workplace, in return, I get "crickets."
Fuck 'em. And thank you for writing this.