{"id":5008,"date":"2018-08-22T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2018-08-22T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:58:25","slug":"the-new-yorkers-ageist-take-on-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/08\/the-new-yorkers-ageist-take-on-ageism\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker\u2019s<\/em> Ageist Take on Ageism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a lifelong New Yorker<\/em> addict, so when I heard they were running a piece on ageism, I got excited. That was a mistake. Tad Friend\u2019s article in the November 20th issue, \u201cWhy Ageism Never Gets Old,\u201d is glib and disappointing on many fronts. Here\u2019s my Letter to the Editor of the magazine:<\/p>\n

Should we learn to live with racism? Quit pursuing equal rights for women? That\u2019s the position Tad Friend takes regarding discrimination on the basis of age, which he describes as \u201chardwired,\u201d \u201cprobably inevitable\u201d<\/a> and remediable only via immortality.<\/p>\n

Older people are indeed closer to death, but even if that\u2019s partly to blame for the stigma [attached to aging], why should we give it a pass? The reason hundreds of thousands of buff boomers can\u2019t land a job interview isn\u2019t because they have one foot in the grave; it\u2019s because they face entrenched discrimination\u2014and not just in tech [companies].<\/p>\n

Ageism is no more embodied or \u201cnatural\u201d than other forms of prejudice. They\u2019re all socially constructed: they\u2019re not about biology, they\u2019re about power. Much about aging is difficult, of course, but much of that difficulty is constructed or compounded by ageism.<\/p>\n

Just as social movements emerged to challenge other forms of oppression, an age pride movement is underway. Our world is growing old fast, and it\u2019s high time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a lifelong New Yorker addict, so when I heard they were running a piece on ageism, I got excited. That was a mistake. Tad Friend\u2019s article in the November 20th issue, \u201cWhy Ageism Never Gets Old,\u201d is glib and…<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more The New Yorker\u2019s<\/em> Ageist Take on Ageism<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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