LIFE LESSONS
Thank You, Generation Z, From This Generation Xer
Seeing Gen Z use their collective power on social media to right wrongs that happened TO and DURING Generation X gives hope we did good.
Generation Z resembles Generation X in many ways.
They do not waste time, they are direct talkers, they do not have time for people who refuse to get with the program. Many in Gen Z have absurdly developed senses of justice — right and wrong.
Thank God for Gen Z they came of age without having to raise themselves, endure sexual harrassment nonstop with no recourse from 4th grade until at least middle age, endure the horrific weight and sex issues foisted upon their parents— while also, I hope, never hearing “what would people say” unless it’s from their grandma. Sporadically.
Instead, Gen Z watch their Xer parents roll their eyes and say “Who gives a shit?” While being sure they mean it.
Generation Z has stumbled across the Menendez Brothers case and are outraged that these brothers have spent three decades mostly seperate behind bars for murdering their parents and have no chance of parole.
