A dramatic increase in age discrimination lawsuits and greatly increased visibility of the problem have done little to alleviate the effects of the perceived “silver ceiling.”

Dromio of Ephesus. Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn! Dromio of Syracuse. Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! - - - Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such a store

1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:

While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms.