Trashing Millennials for their oversensitivity is nothing new and knows no political bounds. Columnists Todd Starnes and Jeff Edwards have opined on the generation which will “destroy” and is “wrecking” America.
Comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock will not perform on college campuses anymore.
Even President Barack Obama has criticized students who “have to be coddled.”
But there’s also at least one Millennial who has decided she’s had enough of her generation. Writing for her blog The Oxytocin Chronicles, Rachel Foote says it all with her title of “Generation Cry Baby: Why Millennials Are a F**king Joke.” Her very first line reads “we’re raising a generation of pussies. There. I said it.”
As Foote rants and raves, quite brilliantly and comically at that, her point is that she hopes she offends. One example she uses against Millennials is the fear teachers have had over giving grades. All emphasis is original:
TEACHERS ARE AFRAID TO DO THEIR FREAKING JOBS BECAUSE YOU’RE SO DAMN DELICATE?!
Many of the best parts of Foote’s piece are in clever one-liners. Including, with original emphasis:
- “Newsflash: Not every single criticism is an attack on your character.”
- “People used to be able to exist without offending someone.”
- “People will think how they think, and be how they’ll be, and most likely, it has nothing to freaking do with you.”
- “There’s your lollipop, so pucker up like the baby you are, and suck on that.”
Foote provides a rather fitting summary of her piece in one of her concluding paragraphs, with original emphasis:
Also noted in the article is how very well aware of the failures of her generation Foote is:
There’s a laugh to be had in the pictures of cry babies included in the post. Here’s an example of how Foote calls out her generation in pictures as well as words.
Foote is not alone. In their reporting of the blog post, Inquisitr pointed to this video post. Forget self-guilt and shaming over white privilege — if ever it were appropriate, it’s now.
It’s likely that many Millennials do realize the error and embarrassment, to be putting it politely, of our peers. And those trouble makers turn out to be a minority, at least with the 40 percent who think the government should ban free speech which offends minorities. But, just because they may be a majority doesn’t mean the rest are off the hook. As Jeff Edwards warned, the 40 percent could very well ruin it for the 60 percent, unless they’re called out for it enough until it sticks.
