Gen X Vs Gen Z - Tumblr Posts
Ugh. This is what my dad sounds like. And mom.
If someone says that they don’t support BLM or Pride, because “everyone should be treated equally” and “it’s not equal if they get special privileges”, are they racist/homophobic? I just got into a big fight with my parents about this. My dad voted for Trump, is white & straight, and works in business. But he gets mad when I call him racist/transphobic/misogynistic, etc because he “doesn’t care what other people do” so long as it doesn’t affect him. My mom is an independent, hated Trump, and is more liberal than my dad, but she has a lot of the same views as my dad. She doesn’t support feminists because she believes they’re all “men-haters” that would make fun of her for choosing to be a stay at home mom, she says “all lives matter”, and when I told her my friend was bi, she said she had to discuss if I was allowed to sleep over at her house anymore! Even though she came out like 5 years ago to me and nothing weird has happened. Wtf, Mom. She also told me that she’d be fine if I was a lesbian but she’d “prefer” if I wasn’t because it would be “easier” for her. And one time she mentioned that her aunt was never married or even dated, so I said, “maybe she’s ace or aro” and she said, “what’s that mean” and as I told her, she interrupted me and said, “I don’t have room in my brain to learn any of theses new words.” Huh, Mom. I don’t remember you saying that when I told you about a cool new animal or invention I told you about.
Is this a Gen X thing? Like, they just want to ignore anything that doesn’t affect them and they cannot deal with change? Because I’m pretty sure this is the mindset of a lot of adults I know.
If someone says that they don’t support BLM or Pride, because “everyone should be treated equally” and “it’s not equal if they get special privileges”, are they racist/homophobic? I just got into a big fight with my parents about this. My dad voted for Trump, is white & straight, and works in business. But he gets mad when I call him racist/transphobic/misogynistic, etc because he “doesn’t care what other people do” so long as it doesn’t affect him. My mom is an independent, hated Trump, and is more liberal than my dad, but she has a lot of the same views as my dad. She doesn’t support feminists because she believes they’re all “men-haters” that would make fun of her for choosing to be a stay at home mom, she says “all lives matter”, and when I told her my friend was bi, she said she had to discuss if I was allowed to sleep over at her house anymore! Even though she came out like 5 years ago to me and nothing weird has happened. Wtf, Mom. She also told me that she’d be fine if I was a lesbian but she’d “prefer” if I wasn’t because it would be “easier” for her. And one time she mentioned that her aunt was never married or even dated, so I said, “maybe she’s ace or aro” and she said, “what’s that mean” and as I told her, she interrupted me and said, “I don’t have room in my brain to learn any of theses new words.” Huh, Mom. I don’t remember you saying that when I told you about a cool new animal or invention I told you about.
Is this a Gen X thing? Like, they just want to ignore anything that doesn’t affect them and they cannot deal with change? Because I’m pretty sure this is the mindset of a lot of adults I know.
Me: The school system is terrible, and not an effective way of teaching students, and to back up my statement here are personal accounts from me and other people I know/have seen on social media, as well as statistics proving my point.
My mom: you know why your generation hates school so much? It's because yall spend too much of your time on phones l, and not learning how to cope with things.
-An average highschool student today has the same stress levels as patients in a mental hospital in the 1950s.
-I have a friend who's biggest fear is a school shooting, one time we had to stay in lockdown for the entire day because someone threatened to shoot up our school. She couldn't sleep or complete any schoolwork for the next few days.
-I almost skipped dinner one night so I could work on a project
These are just a few things, but the list could go on forever. These issues are not caused by our "obsession" with technology. Maybe our lack of coping abilities comes from the fact that anytime we talk about a legitimate issue to an adult, it's always made out to be our fault, to the point where we learn not to trust anyone but ourselves, lest they judge us for being human. Maybe the fact that we have such high anxiety and depression stems from the fact that nothing we did was ever good enough, we were always lazy, or entitled, technology obsessed. I am sick and tired of being treated as a second class citizen because older generations dont want to admit that they are making mistakes, I mean it effects us so why shouldn't it be our fault too. Why dont we just disregard the facts that the people in charge of educational laws havent been in a classroom in probably 30 years. I am sick and tired of being told that I am never enough, that it's my fault the world is messed, and that the world will be worse in our hands. And hey maybe we won't make the world a better place, but it won't be because we didnt want to, it will be because you didnt let us believe that we ever could.