Deluded long time ago, and then disillusioned many years later.

I think that off the charts is Americans' seemingly indoctrinated disrespect to old men, a.k.a. "old geezers", in the especially globetrotting American pop culture.

Many of those "old geezers" are wizards who are of old age. Old wizards, not old geezers, so to speak.

Better late than never, deluded combative and "sturdy pioneer women".