Birthday cards calling someone “over the hill” or making fun of them for getting older are so common that many people don’t think twice about them. But Sara Breindel is hoping you will.

They’ve been a popular gag gift for as long as anyone can remember: crassly humorous birthday cards that brand their graying recipients as “over the hill” and welcome them to the “old ...

Laurie Brock’s 70th birthday was a real milestone, and not because of her age. It was the first time she could remember not getting some “over-the-hill” cards that make a joke of health ...