When did the world become pussified?

[apeman]

They do play outside, though.

The kids still playing the traditional games. This is just a modern version of "kick the can."

[apeman]

After all, if you feels bad, there's a pill for that these days.

Of course now we're giving them other outlets, like burning stuff and punching people on campus. It might help keep them from shooting things up?

This fact is criminally under developed. Then when you have parents looking for any excuse to diagnose their special snowflake and better living through chemistry up their life you are stuck with a generation of drugged zombies

Just as we have outlawed everything negative from stock market corrections to mean words, we have outlawed bad emotions and feelings.

When I responded honestly to my GP that sometimes I lose sleep over stress (I am the primary litigator in a freakin law firm) he offered me xanax.

are you fucking kidding me? This is not a brain imbalance, my job is in fact stressful. Should I not feel it?

Same note, feeling bad is a condition, and must be treated with big pharma. No one -- even those who make bad choices which place them in bad positions -- should ever feel blue, ever, again.

[Ex-California]

After all, if you feels bad, there's a pill for that these days.

Of course now we're giving them other outlets, like burning stuff and punching people on campus. It might help keep them from shooting things up?

This fact is criminally under developed. Then when you have parents looking for any excuse to diagnose their special snowflake and better living through chemistry up their life you are stuck with a generation of drugged zombies

Just as we have outlawed everything negative from stock market corrections to mean words, we have outlawed bad emotions and feelings.

When I responded honestly to my GP that sometimes I lose sleep over stress (I am the primary litigator in a freakin law firm) he offered me xanax.

are you fucking kidding me? This is not a brain imbalance, my job is in fact stressful. Should I not feel it?

Same note, feeling bad is a condition, and must be treated with big pharma. No one -- even those who make bad choices which place them in bad positions -- should ever feel blue, ever, again.

But if you treat your "issues" with alcohol or anything else you're an alcholic/drug user.

I agree 100% with you, part of the condition of living is feeling the whole range of emotions

[Speaker to Animals]

Most millinneals were born to boomer parents. You can quibble over the boundary years, but not that. Don't be silly.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's like I am talking to penguins and they are just yapping back at me.

Gen Xers were the first children to have access to computers in their homes and schools.[41] Generally, Gen Xers are the children of the Silent Generation and older Baby Boomers.[20][41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X (mostly in western countries). There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials, who are generally the children of baby boomers and older Gen Xers, are sometimes referred to as "Echo Boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s. The 20th-century trend toward smaller families in developed countries continued, however, so the relative impact of the "baby boom echo" was generally less pronounced than the original post–World War II boom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

Generation Z are predominantly the children of Generation X,[39][40][41] but they also have parents who are Millennials.[42] According to the marketing firm Frank N. Magid they are "the least likely to believe that there is such a thing as the American Dream" because "Generation X, the most influential parents of Plurals (Generation Z), demonstrates the least credence in the concept of the American Dream among adult generations."[38] According to Public Relations Society of America, the Great Recession has taught Generation Z to be independent, and has led to an entrepreneurial desire, after seeing their parents and older siblings struggle in the workforce.[43]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z


There exist two generational bloodlines.

Boomer --> Millennial

and

Silent Generation --> Gen X --> Gen Z

[TheReal_ND]

Why are you quoting yourself?

[Speaker to Animals]

Why are you quoting yourself?

Repeating the same facts that one poster doesn't seem to understand and has failed to read the thread before posting.

[TheOneX]

Most millinneals were born to boomer parents. You can quibble over the boundary years, but not that. Don't be silly.

Yes the majority of older Millennials were born to Baby Boomers, but as you get closer to 1990 and 2000 the majority switches to Gen x. I'm not being silly, I just have a better and more complete understanding than you. Sure, if you use a less common earlier start dates you will get more Baby Boomer than Gen-Xers, but if you use the more common 1983ish year that number will favor Gen-Xers more. Remember by 1985 the majority of Baby Boomers were 30+ years old, and outside their prime birthing years. The further away you get from 1983 fewer Baby Boomers are having babies and more Gen-Xers are having babies. By the early 90's you'd have almost exclusively Gen-Xers having babies. To exclusively say Millenials are the offspring of Baby Boomers is ignorance is history and biology.

For a more anecdotal evidence. I am an older Millenial, and the majority of the people I know in my age range have Gen-X parents.

As for the topic of snowflakes. This concept of safe spaces and snowflakes didn't come around, or at least it wasn't popular, until the younger Millenials started to enter college. For these Millenials to be born to a Baby Boomer parent, their parents would have had to be in their late-30's and 40's. I don't know about you, but I doubt a significant amount of Baby Boomers were having babies in their 40's. These Millenials are definitely not the children of Baby Boomers. They are the children of Gen-X.

Why are you quoting yourself?

Repeating the same facts that one poster doesn't seem to understand and has failed to read the thread before posting.

I read it, and understood what you were saying. I am just saying you are wrong. It is ok to be wrong. We are all wrong from time to time. This time it is just your turn.

[TheReal_ND]

I tried telling him my parents are gen x but I don't think he believes me. I think he's obsessed with his "blood line" theory

[TheOneX]

I tried telling him my parents are gen x but I don't think he believes me. I think he's obsessed with his "blood line" theory

Doesn't surprise me.