Tracey Gendron is a gerontologist and the author of the book Ageism Unmasked. She says that like many other giant identity categories, 'age in and of itself does not tell you what somebody's experiences are, what somebody's values are, what somebody's health status is, what somebody's cognitive status is.'
As it becomes increasingly inevitable that our next presidential election will be a contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, everyone from comedians to competitors to journalists to doctors to the candidates themselves has had something to say about how old these two men are, and (in some cases,) why that proves that they're unfit for office. Recently, those conversations have gotten to a fever pitch.
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