I just. I don’t like this view of “millennials vs Gen Z”. This is NOT supposed to be a competition of who got fucked over the most and who’s “actually fighting back”.
Millennials are fighting back just by surviving in a job market where the minimum wage doesn’t cover the living cost. Millennials are awesome at “killing” the diamond, golfing and napkins industries. Millennials are using the internet to make sure things that corporations want to keep in the dark are exposed. They’re open LGBTQIA-friendly business, they’re supporting each other with online donations so everyone can survive this shitty economy.
And the Gen Z kids? The Gen Z kids are rad. I remember a post about something like the millennials making a collective promise to never become a disenchanted generation that only criticizes the next one and I want to point out that this “millennials vs gen z” trend is trying to do exactly that: split us apart. Prevent millennials from being the older siblings that teach the younger siblings to throw a good punch and turn them into the annoyed adult complaining about “those kids” on their lawn. We are the two groups that grew in a connected world of information. We are two very unique generations.
I think that it’s our duty for us millennials, as a disrespected, underpaid, very angry generation to stand up by our younger siblings, and fight together the oppressive systems that brought us all to this point.
They’re trying very hard to pit Millennials and Gen Z against each other because I honestly think they’re terrified of what the two will accomplish together.
u know who came up with this “millennials vs gen z” thing. Baby boomers. splitting things apart and categorizing them in 2 things and this duality thing is a baby boomer thing like i sWeAr tO gOd im sure. idk if it was the cold war that fucked up their mind for good or what. but u know. let’s all be one and fuck tHeM uP
I really hope Jane Austen knows that it’s 2018 and Elizabeth Bennett is still That Bitch™️ to all of us young ladies like shout-out to my homegirl thanks for writing her
anyway, my older sister was adopted when she was almost 16 (kinda on accident too), and because of that she got away from an abusive household, went from barely passing classes to being an honour student, and launching into a career where she’s happy and healthy and paying her own way. just two years of parenting where she had 3 meals a day, a bedtime, and parents to help and protect her changed her life radically. Plus, i got an older sister
adopt teenagers.
Sometimes I refuse to be my best self and instead choose to be my pettiest self. This is humanity, folks.
Go to the psychiatrist (no I don’t want to) go to the psychiatrist (ugh I don’t want to) but I did it!
Btw my lyft driver mentioned that he used to live in my neighborhood and gave me histprical facts about a bowling alley that burned down just before pointing out an apartment HE ALMOST GOT MOLESTED IN that is right down the street from mine. Thanks, I didn’t need more trauma in my day.
We all are stardust 