Henry Jenkins' statements about the tendency to reductively categorize everyone who lives in the south as racist or reactionary were much needed, and I'm glad to read such positive response as has occurred. But the name of the thread to which he was responding, "Re: elderly women," also has some problems. I was on an interagency group's Task Force on Elderly Affairs back in the mid-seventies. We had a hard time getting much participation from our target group, and soon learned that there was resistance to the name. "Elderly" has connotations of frailty which still-vigorous old people resent. Using such terminology we tended to view old people as comparatively helpless and in need of our services, but did not give them much room to help themselves. After a lot of resistance from some of the agencies involved, we changed the name to Task Force for Old People, and were able to commence our work. "Elderly" has grated on my nerves ever since then. Stephen Brophy