There is a difference between sensitivity and moral preening. The "Boomers" grew up in a time where courtesy and regard for others was an obligation of good manners and the consequence of being raised well. The current generation, by contrast, parades its moral sensitivity as a badge of honor - yet ironically seems to honor it only in the breech.
It does not take much to note the difference. In the "Dick Van Dyke" era a gentleman stood up when a lady entered a room. Lewd jokes and coarse language was frowned upon. To play a prank was fine, but there were certain lines that were not crossed and when they were, apologies were proffered and were profuse. When bad manners were observed, if you saw it in your child, your child was admonished, perhaps with a swat. If you saw it in a stranger, you politely looked askance.
In this day and age, the millenials - if such they can be so classified - the sensitivity is more ostentatious. Designed to show how sensitive the person is rather than the standards they hold.
Manners are more coarse. Such that presidents and presidential candidates now use language that would have gotten them disqualified for high office once upon a time. The informal rule being that I am free to speak my mind and you are so sensitive that you will at once applaud my authenticity and be scandalized by the "trigger words." Then to careen off to a "safe space" to hug a plush toy - formerly referred to as a stuffed toy.
There were no "safe spaces," by the way, in the pre-Millennial era. That is an innovation of this sturdy era. The difference being that the Baby Boomers, for all their faults, tried to observe the rules of decency but did not careen about expecting to be protected from life's rough edges.
Even then, in the Millennial era, the pranks do not stop. Indeed, take a look at YouTube some time. Pranks there are, the difference being that they verge on the unspeakably cruel. S/O's who go to elaborate lengths to "prank" those they supposedly love that they are breaking up or cheating. Yes, great fun making those we love cry.
The sensitivity eludes me, but they will berate you should you use the wrong pronoun. The distinction then being what sensitivity will bring the most accolades. Yup, you called that boy a girl, and good for you. Bringing your loved one to tears, eh, just another day at the office.
Bottom line. In every day and in every age there will be standards of etiquette and lines that are drawn that are not absolutely solid or consistently applied. Such is life in an imperfect world of imperfect being.
Yet a difference of degree becomes a difference in kind. The difference with this age is that rare it is that such standards of sensitivity are paraded for such transparently obvious motives of self-aggrandizement and self-satisfaction.
In the "Dick Van Dyke" era it was all about the other person. In the current age, it is all about Meeeeeeeeeee...
Millennials are damaged they've been subtly conditioned for very malevolent reasons. Psychologically they've been turned into something like living weapons. All the "safe spaces" and coddling etc are there for a reason. It's to make them hyper sensitive and fill them with outrage. It's not like communist school officials don't know what will happen when snow flakes come in contact with the real world. They'll explode violently. Anything the communist can do to destroy our society and remake it as a Marxist society they will.
Dick Van Dyke show was a pretty amazing show for it's time. I really think it stands up to the test of time. Honesty, honor, and being open communication was the crux of the show.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/XzKWKz946TwHow a wife deals with a woman who has an interest in her husband.
I'm gen z. I would've loved being a millennial seeing as I would've been done with college by now. I think all the safe spaces and LGBT rights are good, just because the other generations had to suffer through or without something doesn't mean the next has to too.
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the accusation of being sensitive is a weird one. Because even if true, so what? No one needs to be "tough" any more. We're not battling giant lizards on a daily basis. We have robots doing 99% of our work. It's stupid to think there's some emotional or physical (or socioeconomic, but we'll come to that..) robustness that is necessary for survival. I mean, as long as someone doesn't fall apart at the mere mention that they could be wrong about something, they can still function just as well as anyone.
But mostly, I don't think the point of all this is to improve anyone. No one actually wants "snowflakes" to "get tough." What they want to do is assert that they are not "weak," and thus when they complain it is not out of weakness but for valid reasons. Of course, that's only a small portion of them. The vast majority of those who complain about snowflakes only say it as a vow not to complain at all. If they were to observe their boss getting ten times their pay for doing no work at all, to complain about it would be snowflake of them, and they aren't going to stoop to that level. It's something the bosses encourage strongly, of course, by buying advertisements on fox news and such so that the notion is constantly reinforced among those who are ridden the hardest - don't complain and your reward for not complaining is to feel "tougher" than those who do complain. Because such a reward is way better than getting paid fairly..
Yeah but in that day and age you didn't have college students crying and needing safe spaces because the person they wanted to be elected president lost. You also didn't have violent mobs beating those they disagreed with back then either. So yeah, they absolutely are more sensitive then boomers. Boomers where saying to be respectful to people, millennials are saying that they are children that should never be challenged because they can't handle it.
I am a millenial purely for being born in the '90s and it happens so that I belong in that certain group but I have absolutely nothing to do with those imbeciles crying around about safe spaces, eating grass, 64 genders, transvestites and other motherfuckery. They should all be put in mental institutions as far as I'm concerned.
Coming from a Zoomer, I have my reservations with Boomers, but they are definitely not more sensitive than millenials. Millenials are the most sensitive generation alive, and that includes both the Silent Gen and Gen X.
That said, Millenials are a much larger generation than the younger ones, so maybe it's less prevalent in people closer to your age because you're sort of at the tail of it.
I'd say most are. Especially those in the younger milennial years.
I've long been someone who values resilience, and I've been an outcast from the milennials for a very long time.
I get along better with 60+ year old men.
Sensitive? No, that's just a show. Look at the way they berate anyone who doesn't agree with them. Anyone sensitive to offense wouldn't do that. It's more like narcissism's trait of "I can do it, but you can't". Its a control mechanism. You see the same thing in toddlers. A three year old thinks nothing of snatching a toy from the kid next to them, but it's thre end of the world if anyone takes theirs.
I don't know about being more sensitive, but millennials are definitely more intolerant of people who don't think the same as them.
26 minutes compared to decades of Disney channel shows/movies. Lol I'm a millennial, but that's a silly argument. You have to know where a culture was at that point in time.
they're making me a fortune in the adult coloring book industry so I won't complain too much. But I get tired of the insults flying around from every group of people. Respect is a forgotten way of life.
Shows were more wholesome back then. There was a hiding of things indecent or wrong that no longer exists.
Id say Gen Z's are worse than millenials however what the media calls millienals are in reality... Hipsters from what I've noticed
These millenial protesters have grown up in the culture created by 1968 hippie revolution. Of course they are going to be absolute fruitcakes.
The steriotypical ones sure, but people like me are extremely hardened and very difficult to offend.
It's a scope and enforcement difference. Probably social media at fault rather than the generation. Though to be fair they did also have the stranger danger fear drilled into them from birth which probably doesn't help.
Hey, let's cherry-pick a single example and judge EVERYONE based upon that. No, people are individuals not members of a collective.
You're going to base your opinion on a single Dick Van Dyke episode? lol
Millennial are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more sensitive than Boomers.
Boomers are the most sensitive. They spend years discriminating on age towards millennials, but the moment someone says "OK BOOMER" they meltdown like a child. Hypocrites.
You fell for the okie dokie. Dude people are all different. Stop grouping people.
Millennials are very sensitive and get offended by anything.
I got confused and hit the wrong button. can we start the pool over again?
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