IF MILLENNIALS SUCK, WHO ELSE SUCKS

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A recent poll questions whether millennials suck as bad as everyone else.

Too many times you hear about the new ‘biggest ever’ generation in negative terms. You’d think millennials suck worse than any other generation.

Baby boomers enjoy dragging the youngsters around by their arm and reminding them they suck.

Millennials seem to enjoy the attention. From wearemel.com:

“There’s a guy in my book, Tyler, who lost it one day at Harvard Law School. He realized his mother’s voice was the only voice in his head; he started screaming, “I need to hear my own voice!” Afterward, he went into intensive therapy and emerged thinking, The only way I’m going to live a meaningful, fulfilling life is if I tune into my sense of self and stop letting my parents control me.”

That ivy league law degree will pay off for this Tyler. You can tell he’s ready to face adversity. This modern version of Norman Bates  seeks intensive therapy, the rest of us breath easier.

Go ahead and knock him for mommy issues, but you try growing up in the prop wash of a helicopter parent. Talk about adversity.

What else drag millennials down?

Madeline Hill takes a shot in Huffington Post:

Admit it, other generations hate us. We’re the last generation to vaguely remember a world without the Internet. We form our friendships via social media and communicate with those friends over tweets, texts, and instant messages. We’d rather Instagram a vintage book than actually read it. Other generations would purchase the book and pick up the phone to meet a friend in person to discuss its ending.

She said millennials don’t read, then sucked up to lit fans by reporting that she read 736 pages of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Madeline the millennial should have read Finnegans Wake if she really wanted to impress them.

You want to know who else doesn’t read? People who listen to books on tape.

No reading habit means millennials suck?

They don’t shoe horses, herd cattle to Kansas City, or walk a wagon train either. But they could.

What millennials have learned to do is learn. All of the staples of civilization, the cooking, sewing, farming, are learnable skills and millennials are a learned generation.

A social theory popular on BoomerPdx holds that people unlearn things they don’t do on a regular basis.

All of the writing stuff used before computers, the paper, white-out, ink ribbons, key pressure, no one uses it but everyone could.

Millennials suck because they don’t cook? It’s a sobering thought during an obesity epidemic. Count on them to connect the dots.

Millennials suck because they don’t know how to sew? Unless you compare their finished work to a master quilter, everyone can learn to sew pretty fast. They won’t knock out as much product as a Chinese clothing factory, but neither does anyone else.

After reading enough ‘millennials suck’ posts, BoomerPdx conducted an informal poll with one question: would you cut exposed romex wire, hook up a junction box, and run romex out to a new power vent? Or call an electrician?

The sampling ages ranged from 45 to 85.

Eight out of ten call the electrician. Seven out of ten questioned the sanity of doing it yourself. One said he’d do it, though he’d never done it before.

One said that’s exactly what he just finished.

No one’s putting hipsters and Greatest Generation people down because they’re afraid of electricity, yet they, along with boomers, feel obligated to trash on millennials.

Why don’t we just pop in a TV dinner, slip into a nylon leisure suit, and relax.

Millennials suck because they haven’t owned a house where every service guy shows up a hundred dollars ahead before they get out of the truck.

Once that happens, things will pick up. Let the learning begin. They won’t suck any worse than the rest of us.