Social Do we need to snowflake shame millennials?

[bobgeese]

Men have been shaming pussies throughout history.


It’s what we do.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Men have been shaming pussies throughout history.


It’s what we do.

True

but we've ceded power to women.

Thus giving rise to the snowflake generation.

Unless you're raised by Sarah Connor, you'll never "toughen up" under the auspices of women.

Just look at Sweden.

 

[PEB]

The snowflake population is a lot smaller then they want you to think it is but they want you to assume that half the youth population is full of snowflakes and are democrats. We are still trying to sell the notion in my time I had to walk in 3 feet of snow to work and had to work 3 jobs to pay the bills. Millennial's now face a reality that they cannot afford to go to college will have to work 3 jobs for the rest of their lives to pay their 1900 a month rent or live in an area that looks like a 3rd world country so they can get cheaper rent near an area where you don't have to drive an hour and half each way. They are more likely to want to beat the hell out of someone then sit and cry looking for a safe spot. But there is a group of people who want people to think they know somehow what's right and they grew up in the mean streets and back whatever billionaire or multimillionaire tells them when the reality that population is way smaller and likely grew up with a golden spoon in their mouth and are protecting their easy life.

 

[PEB]

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[jx820]

Millennials are in their late 20s early 30's they have kids and rent and very little time for this bullshit. Millennials are the generation that MADE Chappelle famous in the first place.

There are a hand full of weirdos that get off on being offended, and some people with genuine grievances. Both are a pretty small group. I can honestly say living in the liberal ass north east, you don't see this shit in the wild.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Didn't read much, but in general, yes...yes we do.

This lame 90's conservative-like cancel culture from the left, must be stamped out and rendered impotent. Just like the Christian Conservatives of the 90's were relegated to joke status over time.

I dunno man. After seeing what this alphabet community has morphed into, I'm inclined to side with the Bible thumpers. There certainly was a "slippery slope."

 

[Liquid Smoke]

Now, when you get into lefty shit, companies are actively trying to conform...

Excellent point. Record companies pushed back HARD against the PMRC and their ilk. These days those same companies are actively pandering to those pushing for censorship if not pushing for it themselves.

 

[woodguyatl]

As to the thread title, couldn't hurt.

I'm older but we were always told "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me".
It's how we were taught some people are assholes and you're not allowed to break out a can of whoop ass on every kid that deserves it, which was probably the case for most of these snowflakes. They needed it. In any event, you don't do that. Not sure when that saying stopped, but it definitely did.
We have fucking adults nowadays who think it's OK to start wailing on someone who calls you a name or word you perceive as a slur you don't like. Even if they're 66 and you're 26 you have the right to swing on them. Which is also outrageous.

When my grandfather was a kid, he was taught to punch somebody in the mouth if they got out of hand. It seems like your generation (and mine, I am 49j got weak and let people run their mouths. Like many things, it’s a cycle with a slow drift to less physical violence.

 

[woodguyatl]

Alright, well let me paint a cause and effect.

Helicopter mom's creating a different kind of person. That parenting changed, and the cause is helicopter mom's.

I have friends that have kids that are 14 years old, that they aren't allowed to leave at home alone because the mom doesn't think it is safe.

I ran the streets until 10PM when I was 7 years old, during the summer.

You act like this is new and that your generation was not already soft. Running the streets until 10:00? My grandfather was from the coal mining region of PA. He worked bootleg coal mines after he finished grammar school and then legit mines later with a brief break to fight WW2 and then Korea. A typical day when he was 15 was to work 12 hours blasting and hauling coal, stop by a bar for a beer with his brothers where fights were common and then head home. I suspect by the time you were hanging on the streets to 10:00 very few folks your age were “manning up” like his generation. I don’t mean this as a criticism, but simply want to point out that you are more near the end than the beginning of a multigenerational slide toward less risk, less violence, and a more secure lifestyle.

 

[ocfightfan]

Mostly we need to stop caving in and giving them what they want when they act like bratty children.

 

[Nate banged my mom]

I ran the streets until 10PM when I was 7 years old, during the summer.

This.

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[Renard]

I'm technically a millennial, had the whole overprotective parents thing. They prevented me from doing anything in order to assuage their own insecurities that "something" would go wrong. It's really fucked up when you think about, you destroy your children's liberty and independence to make yourself feel better. Like... get a prescription for that anxiety you fucking retard.
Despite this, I didn't turn out to have any of the typical "millennial" beliefs. Those beliefs are nonsense, not intellectually rigorous. Every time you try to generalize en entire generation, you're going to fail pretty hard.
Seems to me the under 24 or so people are really the issue. You can't have a debate on them on many issues. They've accepted a certain narrative as true and they're not willing to go back and examine why they have those assumptions and whether those assumptions are valid. Older generations tend to be at least open to have the debate, even if they're uncomfortable about it.

 

[LMP]

You know that you are old as fuck when you start bitching about younger people. Stop being so soft you old ass cunts.

 

[PHATV]

When my grandfather was a kid, he was taught to punch somebody in the mouth if they got out of hand. It seems like your generation (and mine, I am 49j got weak and let people run their mouths. Like many things, it’s a cycle with a slow drift to less physical violence.

Oh, make no mistake. I don't mean to suggest we were taught to be pacifists. Bullies were to be confronted and fought to the end, even if you lost. Things like that. It was just that you couldn't let every single thing somebody said mean anything to you. Because it doesn't and they aren't worth it kind of thing. But there was certainly a limit to everything and if someone got physical with you all bets were off and you were to ferociously defend yourself so they never thought you a target again. And it was all 100% effective. Funny how that worked.

 

[Andy Capp]

It seems to me that helicopter parenting started as a backlash (or pendulum swing) to the so-called latch-key kids of the 80's when nearly every household had both parents working to get through the recession. Do any of you remember "After School Specials"? They started to give kids something wholesome to watch until their parents got home until home video game systems became ubiquitous. I think its prevalence led directly to the ridiculous parental over-protectiveness we see today, despite a continual drop in crime rate over the past sever decades.

When I was a kid, it was normal to be told to get the hell out of the house and don't come back until supper time when I was hanging out inside the house in the Summer. Nowadays, many kids aren't allowed to have any unsupervised free play time. It's damaging. Helicopter parenting right into adulthood is even more harmful. What little scientific research that has been done bears this out, to wit,
The Effects of ‘Helicopter Parenting’
How you might be increasing your child's anxiety

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

You know that you are old as fuck when you start bitching about younger people. Stop being so soft you old ass cunts.

Actually, it's the younger people doing the bitching these days. Every day they are triggered by a 73 year old man.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

Its become a thing where my boss wont send brand new apprentices to my job sites. I've gone through so many who get told "do this.." and they either refuse because "it looks hard", "is that really safe?", or "but I'd rather do 'x'". Considering that I'm not that much older than them it infuriates me, I went through 3 years of "shut the fuck up, do what you're told, and work". Now 13 years later I'm in charge of 3 of our biggest jobsites in the city. These "kids" dont want the work they want to get a gold star just for showing up for a few weeks. They dont last long. I dont fire them but eventually they ask to get placed at a different site because "this fett guy is really mean"

 

[LMP]

Actually, it's the younger people doing the bitching these days. Every day they are triggered by a 73 year old man.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Orange Man Bad

 

[Liquid Smoke]

Gen Z is already shaping up to be a more grounded, no nonsense generation. Save the Tide pods

Everyone's got their vice man.

 

[Mani]

Its become a thing where my boss wont send brand new apprentices to my job sites. I've gone through so many who get told "do this.." and they either refuse because "it looks hard", "is that really safe?", or "but I'd rather do 'x'". Considering that I'm not that much older than them it infuriates me, I went through 3 years of "shut the fuck up, do what you're told, and work". Now 13 years later I'm in charge of 3 of our biggest jobsites in the city. These "kids" dont want the work they want to get a gold star just for showing up for a few weeks. They dont last long. I dont fire them but eventually they ask to get placed at a different site because "this fett guy is really mean"

What’s wrong with anyone questioning safety?

Some apprentices can be a pain in the arse but they’re not all cunts.

I find some of the older engineers I’m responsible for harder to manage as they want to do it the way they’ve always done it.

Times change.