Why yes, you are correct im-the-asshole-that. I really really hate boomers constantly shitting on my generation.
At my job, I once had to take a training course called “Dealing with Difficult People.” And during that course, for no apparent reason, the instructor started off on a rant about millenials which quickly devolved into the entire room of boomers bitching about my generation. At one point, one lady called us “animals.”
When I raised my hand to point out that this was disrespectful, I was told “it’s okay, you’re not like them.” At which point I snapped and asked HOW. My experiences are their experiences. You know what we saw when we grew up? We saw a housing market collapse. We saw the beginning of a war on terror so vaguely defined as to have no visible end. We saw an entire generation stick their fingers in their ears and shout “GLOBAL WARMING ISN’T REAL AND IF IT IS IT’S A PROBLEM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.”
We’ve been told that “you better go to college if you want a good job” only to graduate to find that there are no jobs available because the work force ISN’T RETIRING. We’ve seen the cost of higher education increase OVER 1,000% in the last four decades. A college credit that cost an day’s minimum wage in the 70’s costs us 60 days of work. Those of us who graduate with student loans are told that if we couldn’t afford it we shouldn’t have gone. Those who don’t go are told that we can’t expect a job without a college degree.
We’ve grown up in a world where the acceptance rate at Harvard is higher than the acceptance rate at a new Walmart. We’ve been told that you were grateful for you job flipping burgers, but you were paid the equivalent of $14-$15 an hour to do so. We’ve had employers cut our work week to 39 hours to get out of paying for our healthcare.
I’ve worked in fast food and you want to know a secret? I have never had a problem with teenagers. If they get rowdy or messy they mean no harm. In fact, most of them will stop if you tell them. All they want is a fucking milkshake and a corner to themselves The customers that cause the most problems? They’re middle aged. I had a customer berate me, cuss at me, and call me stupid and ask if I failed math when I told him he hadn’t given me enough money to pay his check. When he finally accepted he was in the wrong, he told me I shouldn’t have made such a big deal out of it because it was “bad customer service” even though any shortage comes out of my paycheck. That sense of entitlement is something I rarely see in millenials.
We’re told in legitimate publications, in TIME MAGAZINE, just how little you think of our generation, how little you RESPECT us and yet you ask for our unquestioning devotion. Well guess what, IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT. You’ve ruined our economy, our housing market, our job market, our environment, and our climate. You continually mock us, demonize us, and leave us to clean up your messes.
RESPECT IS EARNED, and you have done nothing to earn it. And it’s ironic that I have to have this discussion here because at this moment you are the difficult people I am having to deal with.
I was then told I was overly confrontational and would apparently benefit from being sweeter when being called an animal (I may have continued loudly talking over the “instructor” when she tried to cut me off). But the other sole millenial and I shared a loving glance across the room and absolutely lambasted this instructor in the evals and she’s never been invited back to teach that course, so it’s all okay.
I am currently 20 years old. I have explicitly stated on my OkCupid profile that anyone ABOVE the age of 24 should not message me because significant age differences make me incredibly uncomfortable.
but nearly every week (if not every FEW DAYS) I will get men— usually in their thirties and lower forties— messaging me, telling me how attractive they think I am and wondering if I’d like to chat.
last time this happened, I literally copied and pasted from my public profile the statement that I do not want older men messaging me. and the guy said, “you didn’t ignore me :)”, and I think this says a lot about the older population of men. they are hungry for young women’s bodies no matter what they say. and even if they don’t contact me, I will see that some older men will CONTINUOUSLY visit my profile, which is beyond disconcerting. even scarier still is when they are rejected, their red-hot anger can be felt through the screen, as they call me an “ugly cunt” and claim “I wouldn’t hit on you in a million years, dream on bitch”… even though they were the ones who initiated an unwanted conversation with me, they were the ones who tried to charm their way into my pants even though I specifically asked them not to do that
the fact that this has happened so many times, the fact that men twice my age, some men OLD ENOUGH TO BE MY FATHER (who I might add is in his SIXTIES) are thirsting after me and other girls my age is absolutely disgusting and it makes me feel so frightened because if that’s what men on the internet are thinking— that their desire for young women is of more importance than her level of safety and comfort— then God knows what men you pass on the street or through the store or ANYWHERE could be thinking
my fear of men is completely justified, so thank you to all the creeps who have messaged me, you validate my point every single time you come in contact with me
And this is why I don’t create profiles on sites like these.
Little concept I drew in school and color blocking of Jack’s dragon for my Hijack Viking!AU. QuQ I’m still a little indecisive on what to name her, but I have a couple ones in mind.
In this current version, she’s an ice/lightning-breathing wyvern dragoness from a species that generally thrives in really cold regions. She walks as a bat would on her front wings which are equipped with razor-like claws for digging into mountainsides. Her horns, back claws, and spines are blunt and mostly for show, and are generally longer and sharper in the male counterpart of the species. She doesn’t have a very strong build, but she is swift, complete with a large tail fin for maneuvering through windstorms and blizzards that are quite common in the region she and Jack are originally from.
As for Jack, he rides in the little “u-shaped” dip of her neck and uses her horns as a sort of handle. xD
