IF Gen-Z does not need to repeat Gen-X's tendencies...it may be because they wouldn't get the same "rewards"...or, they might not want them.
"The No-Pain, No-Gain Ethos of Gen X"
"Diddy speaks for those of us in my oft-ignored generation who are not so much annoyed by what some might perceive as a Gen Z laziness or entitlement as we are befuddled by the tendency to name so many happenings in life 'traumas,' from expectations in the workplace to the idea of unlikable speech being categorized as violence and even the schism in the #MeToo movement, when, for many Gen Xers, what we experienced (and survived) as bad dates were suddenly being categorized as assault."
~ Xochitl Gonzalez
BAD DATES? SURVIVED?
I do not want to "survive" a "bad date." Perhaps I would want to say, after a "bad date," that was not for me, but no real lasting trauma was inflicted.
Anyway, Women's Studies is fun. Why did I not major in it when I was in college? Because it wasn't offered where I went...
"Parity With Men Is No Longer Enough"
"It was the late ’90s when I discovered that International Women’s Day was a thing. I was studying abroad in Florence, and while I fully loved my time in the city, I also understood that my experiences as a young woman there were largely defined by sexism. It was an era when to venture out of your flat was to assume you’d receive catcalls, and to go to a nightclub was to anticipate some kind of sexual predation. At the time, I deemed it a culture more 'backward' in this respect than what I knew at home in America.
I was shocked when, on International Women’s Day, thousands of Italian women took to the streets in celebration, rage, and support and love of one another. More puzzling to me was that despite how much the concept of feminism dominated American pop culture, particularly in the Clinton era, the global day to celebrate women seemed to pass by in the U.S. with barely a blip on the radar, even on a campus as notoriously liberal as Brown’s, where I went to school.
Nearly 30 years later, after women’s marches and #MeToo, this is somehow still true. The disconnect has gotten me thinking about my own relationship with feminism, and my frustrations with stagnant progress in improving the quality of women’s lives here at home. As the writer Kim Brooks asked in her op-ed for The New York Times about the impact of the pandemic on women’s lives, 'How meaningful was the progress we’ve made in the last three decades, if it can be undone so quickly and so ferociously?'”
~ Xochitl Gonzalez
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