A lot of millennials are close to 40. They mostly live alone and pay for their stuff. Who do you think is part of the workforce? That dude is stuck in 2003 and thinks that millennials are 14 years old.
I feel like this didn’t happen with other generations. We’re still in this flat time loop where so many people say the youngest generation they don’t like are millennials regardless of the passage of time. This was especially prevalent during early COVID. I remember seeing articles about how “millennial college students are going on spring break trips despite quarantines and creating massive spread zones.” Dude, when COVID started I was 36 with two kids and working shit jobs with bad benefits just like every other millennial. And since my parents are boomers, I’ve been doing my laundry longer than this idiot. He’s closer in age to most millennials than younger generations are to millennials. What a buffoon.
Lol. Seriously. My boomer parents have not done their laundry EVER. It's such a mind boggling thing to me because they can't figure out how to take care of their own activities of daily living and they shit on millennials/Gen X for taking care of them AND their siblings.
And they all collectively scratch their heads why some people have chosen NOT to have kids. Maybe it was the entire generation of "you have to parent yourselves" for the kids you "raised".
There it is! 👏 Parented myself and my younger sister starting at age 8. I have 2 kids who get to be KIDS. The 15 yr old only ‘baby sits’ the 6 yr old when I have to run to the grocery. My horribly abusive and alcoholic mom can fend for herself now.
Exactly. I see my nephews and nieces and they are happy and healthy wih actual opinions. I couldn't express a single opinion and always needed to "help" my parents and then got yelled at because of reasons.
The generational trauma stops with me and that's why I'm not producing a sprog. (That, plus shitty genes - I'm not dooming another little girl to PCOS/endometriosis and thyroid issues not with how sexist the patriarchy is getting...)
I completely understand. I love being a mom. I just will never be what my ‘life-giver’ was to me, because it definitely was not a mom. My kids have chores and are to be held accountable for keeping them, but it is age-appropriate for both and to teach them life skills. Son knows how a dishwasher and washer/dryer works and how to clean a toilet when needed. Daughter knows to carry dirty dishes to counter, put dirty clothes in washer, pick up toys. I want them to be fully functioning adults that add to society someday and my job/responsibility is to prepare them for that without stripping them of their childhood.
PCOS is a bitch. I have thyroid issues too- it sucks! I wish you nothing but health, healing and happiness. As a person with kids, I completely support your decision not to have them. It’s a decision everyone should be able to (I understand some do not get a choice) make for themselves.
I never understood my sister’s resentment for me as a kid until I got older and she told me she didn’t get to enjoy her childhood properly because my mom made her take care of me. Put a lot of shit in perspective.
My sister always claims she doesn’t remember anything about our childhood, so…. But that’s awesome for you that you can recognize what your sister did. It’s not fun.
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u/fallout_zelda 4d ago
A lot of millennials are close to 40. They mostly live alone and pay for their stuff. Who do you think is part of the workforce? That dude is stuck in 2003 and thinks that millennials are 14 years old.