barbeauxbot:

illbeshooting4myownhand:

iamateenagefeminist:

Another really great article that sums up my feelings about people who hate our generation. I personally love us. I think that we’ve been pressured and molded into such a bind that’s a miracle how some of us rise above it. Read it, you won’t regret it. 

I really liked the last paragraph:

So maybe I’m okay with being called enti­tled. An enti­tled gen­er­a­tion may end up being the most civi­cally and polit­i­cally engaged gen­er­a­tion in decades. It may get off the tread­mills we’ve been placed on by the gen­er­a­tions before us (get yours, get ahead, for­get every­one else), look around, and decide the sys­tem is bro­ken. It may stop treat­ing unfair­ness, exploita­tion, and hope­less­ness as nor­mal. It may decide that hope, sta­bil­ity, and choice should not just be for the wealthy and the priv­i­leged, that it isn’t greedy to demand those things for every­one else, too.

 I’m tired of peo­ple act­ing like mil­lenials have had their futures served to them on a sil­ver plat­ter, and we just bat­ted them away like petu­lant chil­dren.

Emphasis hers. I think this attitude is a knee-jerk reaction on the part of older people who cannot and will not admit how horribly fucked up the system is now. They managed to create a system in which the standard of living for their children is objectively worse than the one they enjoy. When was the last time that happened in America? I don’t think it’s within living memory.

I’m never quite sure if I qualify as a millennial, because the cut-off dates seem to vary based on the article, but even if I am not, my experience overlaps largely with what’s laid out in this one. I was fortunate enough to be able to temp my way into a job that would eventually (though it took five years) get me into a job I actually wanted, but to go any farther in my field, I would have to go back to graduate school, and I refuse to do so until I can pay for the expenses out of pocket, rather than taking on more student debt, and this insistence is looked at as rather “quirky” by many. But after paying $150+ every month (and more, before I paid off an additional separate loan) for the last, oh, 8 years, and the student loan debt hardly dented, I don’t really want to play into that system anymore.