#generation issues

[maramcgregor]

So last night, I had to go to a music thing to support some of mom’s neighbors. Nice people. Others were there doing the same thing. And all in all the evening was enjoyable. What I was not a fan of: the disdain that everyone had for the millennial generation. The discussion about how everyone gets a trophy and therefore is “special”. Kids who are 23 that are still living at home (never mind that they all have jobs and can’t afford to move out). They just went on and on about how the kids just prefer “mommy and daddy” to take care of everything for them. Just ... no? 

I admit, I ended up going the not me route. Shouldn’t have done that, but I’m not good with confrontation. I told them that I bought my house when I was 22 and moved out when I was 23. And all I got for my statement was, “Yeah, but whose house are you sleeping at tonight?” Like the fact that my mom asks me to stay over to help her is some massive failing on my part to live independently. Or that the fact that I actually DO own a house and make a very nice salary and have 4 cats and a dog ... all fly in the face of what they were saying about my generation and they need SOMETHING to ensure themselves that everyone is just “a special snowflake” in those condescending tones. And yes, I informed them quite nicely that I was sleeping at my own house. Afterall, I had only spent the previous night because we were concerned that they were going to have to put their dog down that day and could use some help getting him in the car and the use of a car whose seats that folded down all the way (mine). How dare I be so selfish.

[patsnack24]

People & Paranoia

Some of the most interesting experiences I’ve had involve riding on an elevator. I’m betting this is because riding the elevator forces people to be cramped in a moving metal box with complete strangers for a few seconds. Riding the elevator up and down, floor after floor, I came to a strange conclusion: Everyone is paranoid.

One day in an effort to make the daily elevator ride more bearable, I…

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[wordseyeneed2say]

we say one thing, but mean another.

I hear them say they want to be treated like queens, wined and dined, taken out in their man's limousines. Funny how these chicks want men, but refuse to act like a lady. Calling themselves b*ches and ready to fight another female who calls them just that, or when that same man refers to them as one. I'm waiting for the generation who becomes innovators rather than hypocrites..

“What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying.”  ― Henry Adams

[oldofhappyendings-blog]

Is this a generation thing?

RANT WARNING

I've noticed this before and I really didn't put much thought into it but as it becomes more prevalent I honestly find it really disconcerting. There are certain words that have somehow taken on a different connotation for people around my age group/generation, and personally I don't find it classy at all.

I'm sure you know what I'm talking about how girls and guys call each other words like bitch, sluts, whores, etc. as affectionate terms. I personally would find being called any of the aforementioned words offensive even if you meant it affectionately. I'd raise an eyebrow and be like ...excuse me? What did you call me? Don't do it again. I can't promise I won't blow up on you.

That being said that's just MY OPINION. I guess I can kind of understand why people do it? coughnotreallycough I mean I've taken enough classes with teachers who bark on how words have powers and yadda yadda yadda. My logic, since my brain needs to be placated as to why in the world ANYONE would want to be called anything that has an EXTREMELY negative connotation behind it, is that this their rather unsophisticated method of making people feel like hurt/offended by these terms. I mean honestly American cultures thrives on swear/curse words. People throw these words around like free candy without a thought. I wonder how people still manage to be offended when people always comment on how much a bitch/slut/whore they are when they've been called it some hundred times.

PERSONALLY I would never use those words affectionately. If I say it it's because I mean what the negative meaning is not because oh I love you, bitch. It just doesn't make any sense! I think my/our generation has a lot of issues but that's a WHOLE another issue I'm not digging into unless someone manages to piss me off.

Am I the only one who is absolutely horrified at often the words bitch, slut, whore, etc. come up? Or am I just some extremely old fashioned person?