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Gray Panther

noun

  1. a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.


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No one likes a curmudgeon. “If you want to be an aging gray panther, and speak your mind to your manager, that’s fine,” Susan Fiske, a Princeton professor and a co-author of the study with Michael North, who recently completed his Ph.D., told The New York Times.

From Time

“If you want to be an aging gray panther, and speak your mind to your manager, that’s fine,” said Susan Fiske, a Princeton professor and a co-author of the study with Michael North, who recently completed his Ph.D.

She is among a new type of gray panther, a woman who aspires to do well and get ahead on the job while happily maintaining a full head of gray.

At 35, Naomi Watts is not exactly a Gray Panther.

Just the sort of Gray Panther gumption that Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 80, chairman of the Select Committee on the Aging, likes to hear from his elders.

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