The Golden Bachelor Changes Nothing

The show traffics in a vague politics of anti-ageism. But where are all the crones?

Only Gerry could have been The Golden Bachelor.

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed, orange-tan Gerry / ABC’s The Golden Bachelor

For the uninitiated, The Golden Bachelor is the newest iteration of the perpetually out-of-touch, behind-the-times reality TV franchise that will not die and now officially has too many spinoffs, The Bachelor. The newest series in the fra…