Behold! Here are the people giving millennials a bad name

An ad from Ollie’s Facebook page, advertising “all-inclusive living.” As you surely have noticed, the media have turned telling us why millennials are Bad into a cottage industry. Millennials are not having sex, they’re not eating cereal, they’re living in adult tree forts constructed out of all the participation trophies they were handed while not buying crap like cars because we don’t actually want them/can’t afford them anyway. Millennials are not actually Bad, nor are they a homogeneous group of people who all act or tweet alike; when people talk about “millennials,” they usually mean a certain subset of city-dwelling white people from upper-middle class families who spend a lot of time on the internet. Millennials as a group are definitely not worse than Baby Boomers, many of whom were, it turns out, Bad the whole time. But occasionally we get a reminder why this trope exists about millennials, like this story from DNAinfo yesterday about all the… Read More

Behold! Here are the people giving millennials a bad name : Brokelyn