It started when EP Mike Gibbons, who noted that 40 is the new 80, mentioned that CBS focus-grouped the pilot, and the millennial in the group said he did not like it because of the jokes about millennials being coddled, too sensitive and thin-skinned. The woman running the focus group, Gibbons said, clarified: “So, you were offended by millennials being portrayed as too sensitive.”
A Millennial Media Member interrupted Gibbons. “I’m a millennial myself. How are we so coddled, and what about our overly politically correct workplace bothers you?” she asked, like she meant it to sting.
Reminds me of the Callahan cartoon:
“This is a feminist bookstore, there is no humour section!”
She just proved it by responding the way she did.
“So, you [a millennial] were offended by millennials being portrayed as too sensitive.”
Reminds me of the Foghorn Leghorn episode “I keep pitchin em and you keep missin em”.
Not sure if people will be able to make the correlation but I can’t wait until s hot blonde is slapped or punched in the face in public by a Muslim thug and no one does or says anything . Maybe then the eloi will start to get it but I doubt it . They will blame themselves and Christians .
I’m a “Millennial” – and for the record, who wouldn’t get annoyed at a program that is specifically set up to mock you? I don’t see a lot of “Daily Show” fans in these comment sections, guess that makes us conservatives too sensitive?
At the end of the day, each generation has it’s challenges. The challenges for the Millennial are numerous: an economic downtown that negatively impacts the job market, enormous student debts accrued in order to simply gain entry level positions in the job market (as a physician, the costs of my training were >$100,000.00, costs for tuition for older generations were phenomenally cheaper), an older generation that hadn’t planned appropriately for retirement and haven’t moved on from the workplace, or alternatively those who retired early and have created a large tax burden in order to pay for the social safety net relied upon by said boomers. Housing costs are exorbitantly high (See: Vancouver, Toronto, everywhere else) which leaves many trapped renting and building equity for someone else. Couple that with a lack of political clout as Boomers control the reins of governance, and you wonder why Millennials feel a little bit peeved?
It’s a little rich from the “Talkin’ bout my generation!!!” crowd, that’s all I’m saying.
(For the record, I’m a Millenial, a Family/ER Physician, a homeowner and you better believe I have student debt that I’ll be paying off for a long time. I don’t have most of the problems mentioned above, but can you really blame those who do?)
My own Millennial children mercilessly MOCK their own kind. But, then again, they all have jobs … that actually produce services that people need and want. THAT might make a difference.
During my final years of teaching, I had some of the early millennials in my courses. The concept of actually *earning* their grades was not only foreign to them, but abhorrent.
I also noticed how thin-skinned they were, being quite sensitive to sarcasm or mockery of any kind, even though what I said about them was the truth. Nothing short of high praise was considered acceptable.
And people wondered why I quit that business….
Hi Dante,
Before I make fun of millennials let me let you in on a little secret my father told me.
One night at dinner I was trying to convince my parents why I needed a car to get to high school. My father (who relentlessly made fun of boomers as the most spoiled generation ever) countered that when he was in school he had to walk 2 miles each way to school himself and nobody ever offered him a ride. A few days later my mother offered that my grandfather had heard the same argument from my father and he had countered that my father could get a job and buy his own car (which my father subsequently did). She also reminded me that we were living in my grandfather’s house and that my father had attended the same high school I did, so in theory I was walking the same distance my father had (unless the roads had gotten longer which my father later claimed when we switched to the metric system). I bought a 1967 Chev Bel Air.
But to your point about the lack of political clout. There are 9.51 million boomers in Canada (born ’46 to ’65) and 9.53 million millennials (1981 to 2000). There are more millennials than boomers. And yet you have no clout. THAT, is why we make fun of you. That and the fact that our parents made fun of us.
Dante, you post that garbage and then wonder why you get mocked. You should try being a high functioning dyslexic with ADD, and see the shit storms you would have had to endure. But a real man/woman takes such things in stride and learns from them, and comes out stronger in the end. As to your 100K debt, you made a choice, period, end of discussion. As to housing costs being so high, well tell that to the immigrants that come into Canada, without education, English language skills, or hardly any other skills, and yet they buy houses. I have NO sympathy for you or your kind, bitch all you want, and I’ll mock you till the cows come home:-)))
Getting your own car doesn’t help any more. When I was a kid we learned how to drive at 15 (illegally), got our learners permit on our sixteenth birthday and could get our fully license the next day if we wanted to. Now, with graduated licensing you can’t “solo” anywhere any time until 19. So, by the time you can get a car to drive to school, you’ve graduated, and if you need to get to a job that is not on a subway line in down town Toronto, you are pretty much SOL.
I’m a Middle Boomer, 1950’s version. It cost $135 a month for a 2 bdr sh#t house apt in Montreal in 1975 (space heater version), bread was $0.50 a loaf & hamburger was $0.30 a lb. Gas for a car (which most of us post high school could not afford) was $0.30 a GALLON. My 1st year tuition was around $800. I worked two years after college (CEGEP in Quebec) to save enough for tuition & rent et al for Uni, because my family did not have the means to send any of their 3 kids to Uni. Oh, washing dishes at the 24 hour A&W paid $2.60 an hour. Pumping gas (imagine that… people filled your tank, checked the oil, tires, wiped your windshield) all for 30 cent gallon gas. I made tips that equaled my hourly day wage doing the above. Now you pay about a dollar a liter for gas & you wipe your own windshield. Hamburger is about $4.98 a lb.
By the way: I have a degree in Geology that earned me a whopping $1150 a month job, living in a northern Saskatchewan town, 8 months after I graduated. There was no doctor available, or dental facilities in that town. I worked out in the bush pretty much 12 months of the year & lived in a tent. A Johnson Bar was our toilet, rain or snow. There were no jobs in any major city in Canada for geologists then & even if I did land one I would not have earned enough to even think about asking for a mortgage.
I will say this… I had no debts, at least for my degree, but if I had gone your medical route then for sure I’d be paying a whack of interest on a pile debt at interest rates of 12.75% in 1977 and not long after at 20.5%. What rate are you paying right now?
It’s all relative, sport. It’s what you make of things that counts. Nobody handed us a silver platter when we reached the voting age, or anytime afterwards.
I didn’t see anyone mocking me – just you!
As for your comment about, ” But a real man/woman takes such things in stride and learns from them, and comes out stronger in the end”, I just chortled softly. I’m a physician, man – that’s over a decade of relentless effort, chronic sleep deprivation, etc.
You think I did that without hard work?
You’re also a bit confused if you think I was asking for your sympathy – I need none! I’ve got a great job with a great income, I own my own home, I have the most wonderful spouse and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. There are those in my age cohort who aren’t doing so well, and my comment was an attempt to show you why that is. You don’t seem to be all that happy, however, so as an olive branch, I extend to you my sympathy – good luck, and I hope it gets better for you.
Thank you for you efforts. We need doctors and I for one am happy you were prepared to put the effort in to be one. If you are smart and hard working enough to become a doctor, you can pretty much do anything you want. The rest of us are better off for your choice.
Excuse me for the disconnect… Hopefully you graduated from a med school that actually teaches medicine, but I digress. Help me out here – you’ve got a whacking great student debt, but you make a great income and you own your own home. So, given today’s real estate market and the probability you’re not practicing in East whackatree, Saskabush, how is it that you still have a whacking great student debt? Still living high off the boomers…? The same group who is providing you the medical business for you to earn the income, and has paid for your education…. This is why the “millennials” attract so much derision. It’s the inborn sense of entitlement that tends to go along with them…
Ah, Dante. I’ve worked with a great number of doctors in research and have dealt with a fair number of millenials. What I’ve found interesting is the incredible amount of entitlement displayed in both groups.