#so your parents are boomers

[ryan-sometimes]

Is it just me or is Gen Z losing some respect for Millennials because of the way they’re raising Gen Alpha? Like we are constantly seeing stuff about how Gen Alpha is being raised as “iPad kids” and how detrimental it’s becoming to their education, and it’s coming with some resentment towards Millennials

[rowanisawriter]

most of all i hate the govt for letting everyone in our parents generation drink lead contaminated water so that i (uncontaminated) have to deal with my parents and in laws completely insane unhinged detached from reality decision making and thought processes

[morgana-ren]

You ever see a piece of media that is very blatantly meant for adult consumption but for some reason, the fan base around it is ultimately comprised of packs of rabid 12 year olds who shouldn't be indulging in the media in the first place and utterly lack critical thinking or comprehension and couldn't understand nuance or perspective if you gave them baby's first homework assignment on it?

[maybeicanbesaved]

got into yet another fight with my mom, again about voting/the election, she said that she’s only voted once in her life and never cares to again because she ‘doesn’t care about politics’, saying that shit almost proudly?? and it set me off for obvious reasons, then she got mad at me for saying it’s because she’s privileged and ‘most’ shit doesn’t affect her directly so she can afford ‘not to care’

[nebulaad]

nothing is more indicative of the senselessness of generational labels than people talking (often from the outsider perspective of also being a customer) about "those mean boomers and the apologetic milennials". hate to be the one to have to tell you this and it's definitely informed by working in tech retail but I might get some surly boomers but nobody has screamed at me like 1) large groups of honestly if not milennials than gen z's who are pissed off that they showed up late with too many people to actually do anything despite having not made a booking, and 2) milennial moms who don't listen to me when I gently advise them that their minimum-aged kids probably can't read or follow instructions well enough to get a lot out of the activity, whose kids then quit part way through.

[hunkygreenbean]

Hello my Millennials and Gen Z followers we need to have a talk.

PLEAASE stop downplaying gen alphas internet addiction. Seriously. I'm tired of seeing people going "oh, well they said tv would rot our brains and we turned out fine!!" Like no. The shit Gen Alpha is being exposed to is in no way comparable to you watching Saturday morning cartoons when you were 5.

Firstly, whatever children's shit you've watched on TV has to be held to rigorous standards. Even if the show wasn't purely educational, there is still multiple levels of writing, filtering, and editing in order for it to qualify for a G or PG rating. Yeah, the writers would sneak in little adult jokes for the parents to snicker at, but other than that the shit you saw was squeaky clean.

Gen Alpha kids are literally getting gore and fetish videos pushed to them on both regular social media and kids versions of SM. We have toddlers that know how to use a phone before they know how to talk. We have kids acting out what they see in these inappropriate videos, which is leading to increases in levels of elementary school violence. These kids are having their attention spans fucked over by short form content. These kids cannot socialize or properly regulate their emotions. These kids are having higher rates of depression and pediatric mental illness because of their unfiltered, unmonitored screen time.

Also because SM has no filter or real hard rules for what kids are shown, this has opened the door to all kinds of gross content farms that exploit their young viewers.

I often hear from my fellow Gen Z "but like we also had brainrot like MLG and Trollface!!" The difference is is that Gen Alpha is watching pregnant Elsa and Spiderman videos from the moment they gain consciousness. From my experience, I did not get internet access until I was 7-8. My early formative years were spent with other forms of enrichment. The content that Gen Alpha is watching from their toddlers years onward is literally setting them back intellectually, socially, and emotionally for the rest of their lives.

Yes, I am aware that there is an issue of parents using ipads as babysitters. Yes, I know it falls on the parents to monitor what their kid watches and how much time they spend on a screen.

But if y'all really care abt gen alpha and finding a solution for them, you gotta stop minimizing the impact of the content they are consuming.

[philsmeatylegss]

Glass child on the internet: “I have experienced profound emotional neglect throughout my childhood due to the pressure and unmet emotional and sometimes physical needs forced upon me since my parents were very busy taking care of my disabled sibling. Thus leaving me with severe emotional scars that I deal with to this day and it’s very invalidating and triggering when people don’t listen to my perspective or understand the gravity of my situation.”

People who put “neurodivergent” in their bio and self diagnosed with seven different disorders: “IT’S NOT THE SIBLINGS FAULT!!!!!!”

Glass child: “I never said it was—”

People who think they have autism because they are very interested in something and sometimes get overwhelmed: “Oh, so you’re ableist? You should probably just kill yourself. No, you definitely should kill yourself. Like, actually do that. Stop crying because mommy and daddy didn’t pay attention to you. Yeah, you’re a lost cause. Kill yourself pls”

[i-am-going-to-skream]

Did y’all know that I’ve been suffering from sleep problems since day one?

Like I literally popped out of the womb and never slept right. Like im not joking. Never in my life have i had a single restful night.

I got insomnia, occasional narcolepsy, and zero internal clock. Im pulling all nighters at least once every other week. And thats if im lucky!

What im saying is, if anyone ever tries to gatekeep your exhaustion, tell them to go fuck themselves bc I’ve gotten far less sleep than they did and i say you’re allowed to be tired!

[flightlessinsect]

D*m is such a questionable, shady person that sometimes I genuinely fear that Tom, someone who respects and admires him a lot, is actually just like him.

[10holmes]

Had a really cool day.

Until I just received a mail from my boss aka head teacher forwarding me an angry-parent email in which a Karen complained about her daughter being confused about me wanting to be addressed as "teacher" instead of Mr/Ms and how I dared, as a teacher, to bring my gender identity into the classroom...

As if like every other fucking teacher that goes by Mr or Ms doesn't bring their gender identity to the classroom??!!!!

But yeah, of course, because I'm enby and boomers can't wrap their pea-sized heads around the concept of just using a gender neutral address I'm at fault...

To make matters worse I dared show the students the short animation "my shadow is pink" to question gender norms and teach them that it's okay - especially for boys - to be who they are and wear what they want and not be fcking ridiculed and shamed for it...

But yeah apparently that was too woke and too much diversity and tolerance I brought to the classroom and now I have to write a formal statement to my head teacher about the "incident" justifying myself...

Precious time and emotional energy of may day wasted that could have been avoided if people in this world were just fcking kind and accepting and didn't make problems out of stuff that does not negatively effect their daily life... (but what they make into a problem and struggle for other people in their daily life...)

I'm so sick and tired of this.

[keepinventory]

generational politics continues to be the dumbest invention ever. you're having an existential crisis over people continuing to have kids after you were born? did you think you were the last child ever. be honest

[girlwiththegreenhat]

high school graduations suck but the valedictorian doing a speech about how corporations are killing the planet and we should be more conscious about our waste and consumerism for the betterment the future of our planet and children, pissing off every idiot conservative on the crowd including my dad, carried the entire thing for me

[boomstab-papa]

there are children in the reviews of CD player listings, upset because there is no speaker in the CD player, and they are being forced to wear earphones to listen to the CD

and im

[steal-this-idea]

I wonder if these changes are permanent? Like how do these laws/policies get unmade without it becoming an opportunity by opponents to claim one is "soft on crime" or some other bullshit?

I think of an old jokey apocryphal how a temporary ban on bottomless dancers would, in truth, be a permanent ban because no politician could ever craft a way to be in favor of repealing such a needless ban without incurring the opportunistic wrath of moral crusaders

So how do we let kids be free again? Because I used to walk home from school starting in the 3rd grade. I was eight. I would even sometimes go home for lunch (and no one was home either...I was just doing it because other kids got to do it so why not me? I only stopped when my teacher noticed that when I left, no one picked me up and I didn't want her to tell my Mom)

It never a big deal

One Summer, my brother and me with our downstairs neighbor (none of us older than 12) went exploring a culvert that ran under a parking lot (bunch of eels down there). It was one of the coolest things I remember doing as a kid. No one knew where we were. No supervision and most importantly, no cops were called on us (because I can't imagine we were super quiet during all this). Now you can't even cut across the parking lot without some asshole in security questioning what you're doing. (what do you think I'm doing? I'm cutting a quarter mile or more off my journey like every other pedestrian resident in this town since this place was built in the 1940s)

I think it bothers me even more because these laws were clearly created by the very same people who have fond, cherished memories of hanging around with friends/family in their childhoods, playing stickball in the streets, riding bikes several town over, playing in playgrounds without any adults around, going into corner stores to buy candy/soda, etc. Like, no one gave a fuck we were doing these things and then, suddenly, they did.

Can it be attributed to anything because it surely can't be crime. The things I just mentioned all took place during peak crime in America (the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s). Is this something else we blame on landlords or perhaps capitalism more broadly? Public spaces and good-natured fun being effectively outlawed because the "powers that be" deemed we weren't making them enough money when we "wasted" our time by simply spending it together?

Was it mostly liberal or conservative politics that brought us these lack of public spaces? Or was this one of those rare bipartisan fuckings over?

Cuz I'm tired of it

It's hard to be a civil society when our basic social nature is legislated against

[cats-in-the-clouds]

my sister got engaged and we’re all really happy for her but my bitter rain cloud of a dad (who naturally she told last) is giving her a bit of passive aggressive grief about it despite her boyfriend being like the best man of our generation (presumably either because he’s not catholic or because my dad sees them as young dumb unemployed people who aren’t ready for marriage or because he’s mad he barely has any real love with his own wife or something). so like pray for us? i wish i knew what to do

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