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millenial generation got a little too beaten down and miserable but im delighted to see that gen z seems to be frothing at the mouth and out for blood
We’re still not much older than them, I believe we can use this as encouragement to rally ourselves, too. If the kids can be this proactive and passionate, we can rise up from the prone position they’ve beaten us to and show them they haven’t won. We’re still here and we care about our future, too.
A combined force of Millennials and Gen Z will be a much MUCH larger force than the Boomers would expect, and they’d never stand a chance.
Here’s the thing, guys, there’s the damn thing. I’m seeing a lot of comments like “sorry we failed you” and “go do what we could not” and so on and so forth. It’s really disheartening talk, and I get it, beLIEVE me, I get it. But I want y’all to think for just a second about how much the beating we’ve taken as a generation is playing right into the hands of the assholes who want to silence the Z kids.
We grew up on the same stories Z’ers did. HP, Hunger Games, all that. We read the same stuff. We jumped out into the world ready to do anything. And the Boomers in charge immediately blind sided us. We knew the recession/depression we’d grown up in was bad—now that we were adults, they shoved the burden of it off on us, they blamed it on us, and had the audacity to demand that WE fix it. The economy and world we were promised by our parents growing up wasn’t there anymore. Daring to have dreams if you weren’t from an already supremely privileged background was suddenly tantamount to signing your own death warrant. Now, we all just struggle to survive, burdened by lifetime debts, mental and physical illnesses we can’t often afford to treat, and a crushing sense of defeat.
Not to sound like a total conspiracy nut, but that is exactly what they want.
To the Boomers in charge, we are supposed to be a lesson to all future generations of what happens when you challenge the system in anyway. We started claiming our differences (to mixed success), and they punished us for trying to openly live and love our truths. We tried to make our dreams and life goals happen, and they punished us with crippling debt for an education they no longer value. We asked for help with out struggles, and they punished us for having neurochemical imbalances, physical disabilities, for being abused and neglected and not just sucking it up but daring to want things to be different, to change for the better.
Our current state of downtrodden obeisance is what they want, and what they expected the Z’ers to follow. Look at the Millennials, we have ground them down to barely scraping by, and if you don’t toe the line, you will join them.
And rather than accept that, these kids are screaming up a storm and throwing down a challenge that the Boomers are scrambling to react to.
They didn’t expect these kids to look at what happened to us and say “FUCK NO. You may have killed their spirit but you haven’t killed ours!” And they clearly do not know what to do about it.
So where does that leave us? Well, clearly we’re all in support of these kids. But all those comments of “we’re too tired and depressed to help but goodonya”? If that’s all you can muster because of your life circumstances, that is awesome and fine, but for the rest of us who are able to do a little more, we need to do more. After all, these kids are also all dealing with many of the same things we’re dealing with, like depression and anxiety and discrimination. Where do you think they started learning about that stuff from? Where do you think they got the example that they deserve better in spite of all that?
Millennials, we’re now all generally in our early/mid-20s up into 30s. That doesn’t mean our protest days are over! What in the world would make you think that? Do we have the same amount of comparative free time that these Gen Z kids have? No, generally not. But they are also risking a lot here in order to have their voices heard. It’s wrong to ask them to risk so much when we ourselves won’t risk as much. But also, how boss would it be if Millennials suddenly rose up alongside them and helped to make the changes we want to see?
Years after they think they’ve beaten us into submission, we take a solid, tangible stand alongside the Gen Z kids. We multiply the number of people speaking out and exercising our right to be heard and enact change when they think they’ve beaten the fight out of us. We do more than offer our best wishes, we offer our time and our sweat and our tears to help the Z’ers accomplish these goals. Our youths are not necessarily behind us, and just because we’re adults now does not mean we have to stop fighting.
We can push back alongside them and make it clear that they didn’t break us, they just made us stronger and angrier. The only lesson they taught the world by crushing us down was that the way we’ve been treated is wrong, and that everyone deserves better.
What I’m saying is, please don’t buy into the idea that we Millennials are, as a generation, defeated. We are far from it. The way some of you are talking, it sounds like you’re all 80+ year old soldiers who have already fought this war. And while maybe life has smacked you around enough that it feels that way, the truth is we were benched from the war before we even had a chance to fight more than a few battles. They’ve been keeping us so locked down in the trenches of despair that we don’t even remember what the battle field looks like.
These Gen Z kids are Wonder Woman charging out of the trench and barreling across No Man’s Land when no one thought it was possible. We need to be Steve Trevor and every man in those trenches who charges out behind her to back her up. She can take care of herself, but she can always use some help. We need to be that help
Don’t give in to the despair, don’t give in to the Boomers’ hopes that we’re too downtrodden to help. Gen Z is paving the way. We can still stand right next to them and change the course of history.
JK Rowling only said Dumbledore was gay because there weren’t any risks, the books were finished. Now she’s decided they aren’t, there are risks again and she’s chosen the same spineless path she’s used to. She is no LGBTQ ally.
The feeling of not having to work tomorrow is better than the feeling of not having to work today
new concept: tumblr jail
if a post gains more than 20 notes it goes on trial to determine whether it’s problematic or not. then the op is given the death penalty
I like how this seems to imply that op gets the death penalty regardless of whether their post is deemed problematic.
that’s exactly what happens
Time’s up, punk
well sh
Mothers and Fuckers of the jury–
Guilty
things i wish were in the HP movies but weren’t:
- mcgonagall getting stunned 5 times to the chest and surviving
- lupin and harry fighting at grimmauld place in DH
- sirius singing “god bless ye merry hippogriffs”
- peeves
- firenze teaching divination in a classroom that looked like the forest
- the entire scene at st. mungos
- S.P.E.W.
- ludo bagman and fred and george’s bet with him
- lupin asking harry to be teddy’s godfather
- percy coming back to his family
- molly fighting the boggart and seeing her family and harry dead
- lupin comforting her
- lupin’s entire storyline after poa basically
- rita skeeter being kept in a bottle
- sybill trelawney’s alcoholism
- all the time harry spent with sirius in ootp
- house elves fighting in the battle of hogwarts
- snape calling lily a mudblood
- dumbledore’s backstory with his family and grindelwald
- sirius giving harry the mirror
- ginny dating dean
- fred and george pranking dudley
- harry’s conversation with dumbledore after sirius dies
- potterwatch
- tonks and remus’ relationship
- tom riddle’s full backstory
- tonks, moody, and lupin seeing harry off at the train station
- lupin having harry up to his office for tea
- professor binns, ghost teacher
- snape repeatedly harrassing his students
- pigwidgeon
- ron dressing up the family ghoul to serve as decoy while he was gone
- de-gnoming
- charlie weasley saving norberta and taking her to romania
- harry talking to sirius and lupin about his parents
- all instances where wizards are completely clueless about muggles
don’t date someone who looks at a kid crying and rolls their eyes. more than likely they’ll do the same when you’re crying.
don’t spend time with anyone who thinks children shouldn’t be in public. kids live in the same world we do, they have a right to go see (age appropriate) movies the same as any adult.
don’t be that asshole who insists children are terrible when you’re terrible to them, too. kids have a right to not like people who treat them poorly. they don’t have to be polite to you because you’re an adult.
don’t be the dick who thinks of children as a hive mind or as having the same personality. kids are people… they’re just as varied in their personalities and opinions as any adult.
if you don’t want to be a parent, that’s fine. parenting is the heaviest responsibility in our society yet it’s treated as a societal expectation. but just because you’re certain you don’t want to raise kids, doesn’t mean you get to treat every child, who are people deserving of respect, like they’re less than human in any shape or form.
children are people and they deserve respect. my god, i can’t believe that i have to say it, but some of y'all apparently don’t know.
I really want to know the story behind this
Hello new followers of my blog because of this picture. Here’s the story:
I work at a Veterinary Hospital that does both dog and cat boarding. This is our cat boarding room, and the cat you see there is Professor Jiggly. His full name is actually Professor Jiggly Hammish, but there wasn’t enough room on the post it note to write that. Professor Jiggly is a Bengal kitten (currently 10 months old). My job title is Animal Caretaker, so I get to feed and clean up after and play with all of the boarding pets. Professor Jiggly is not my cat, but he does have an owner. He is not for adoption and is extremely well-cared-for. He has already gone home and is no longer boarding at the clinic but he will be back again.
Professor Jiggly is loud. Anytime you walk into the cat room he is meowing for all he is worth, sticking his paws through the bars of his condo for attention. So I let him out to explore the room. You can see I tried to give him a couple of toys and I even sprinkled some catnip for him but he just wanted to check out the room. I put a post it note on the door so that no one would open the door and accidentally let him out into the rest of the clinic.
This was as I was walking away to go tend to someone else, and he was was meowing because he wanted me to go back in there and pet him.
Rereblogging for the story behind Professor Jiggly.
Don’t read the comments on this article. The kid did it because he was learning about how teenage girls suffer from depression more than any other age group, and didn’t want any girls going home feeling sad on Valentine’s Day.
Ofc half the comments are like “what an EPIC playa, bet he got some action after that hahaha” or “why do these special snowflakes need a handout like this” or “what kind of Richie Rich kid” (chocolate company donated the boxes after learning why he wanted so much)
Like… why is humanity like this
THIS BURNS MY BACON, LET ME SHARE WHY.
At the school where I work, we had a similar lovely Valentine’s moment:
One of our seniors bought hundreds of roses on Valentine’s Day. Every girl in every grade got one; there were enough left over for staff and extras for others who might want one. This is our library bouquet.
One year ago, our school lost a student to suicide. As Valentine’s Day was approaching, this sad anniversary was all our student body was talking about and remembering. This senior student decided to try to lift us up from that narrative, and literally fill the halls with flowers. The surprise was carried out flawlessly – even his own sister didn’t know what he was about to do.
I have rarely seen a happier school holiday.
I’ve seen EXACTLY those comments on social media about what happened with us, and about similar gestures from high school students. Lots of “spoiled kids with money”, lots of “this is just to get laid”.
I don’t think this diminishes my senior student or his gesture at all, but it diminishes us when good things happen and we turn around and reduce these moments to their most cynical interpretation. And that’s not even touching on what it says when people feel the need to belittle younger people for trying to do good; the kids can’t catch a break from some people.
Can’t we take sweet things at face value the way we do all the darkness out there lately?
This is the money Patrick. Reblog so money will come your way
“I’m getting back in line.”
OKAY but i just reblogged this last night and guess what i got today from my workplace’s self-audit!
THANK YOU PATRICK FOR FREE MONEY
BLESS ME PATRICK
PATRICK I HAVE NEVER STRAYED YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVED YOU
*rolls sleeves* aight dude lets get me some money
Can i just *Gets in line*…there
Y'all I reblogged this and got $240 in tips in one day at work so 🤔🤔🤔