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I kind of got the impression that Hopkins was stirring the ladle. She goes on about his 'nice guy act' and then went into the diary room after that conversation saying he was a surly nasty man.

And you're right ageism isn't taken as seriously as it needs to be. I also think that because Cheggers has a different set of values which are most likely from his generation people are misconstruing his behavior as disingenuous.