MichaelRoss
May 29, 2007, 05:25 AM
Ankesh,
Thanks for adding.
AGE-ISM is NOT about someone's choice - like Agassi keeping on playing. It's about the ATTITUDE of Others as far as AGE is concerned. That people - all people - are judged by their Age - AND - that it is Accepted Without Question.
And it has nothing to do with what is out of the ordinary. There is no ordinary. Older people have ALWAYS been active in all fields. But they are Questioned about it, all the time.
As much as you try to Justify it, and pass it off, it exists as if for its own discriminatory sake. People - everyone - participate in it, and are victims of it.
The only way to end it, is to expose it and call it out whenever it is used - without going overboard as some of the Minority Groups have a tendency to do.
Michael Ross
Thanks for adding.
AGE-ISM is NOT about someone's choice - like Agassi keeping on playing. It's about the ATTITUDE of Others as far as AGE is concerned. That people - all people - are judged by their Age - AND - that it is Accepted Without Question.
And it has nothing to do with what is out of the ordinary. There is no ordinary. Older people have ALWAYS been active in all fields. But they are Questioned about it, all the time.
As much as you try to Justify it, and pass it off, it exists as if for its own discriminatory sake. People - everyone - participate in it, and are victims of it.
The only way to end it, is to expose it and call it out whenever it is used - without going overboard as some of the Minority Groups have a tendency to do.
Michael Ross
