Cancel culture? Young people aren’t intolerant, we’re progressive

There is another thread right now about a mum's arguments with her two late 30s/early 40s TRA daughters. They come across as total twats, and it's very tempting to advise treating them accordingly. I agree with UniversalAunt that it's important to resolve family grievances but it can be so very hard ...

She should be on mumsnet, she'd fit right in on many of hhd boards

This young woman just does not tolerate anyone who has a different vision of progress.

Wise words @morningtoncrescent62

Sad that you feel such loss for what you & your family missed.
A helpful prompt to us all to resolve our family grievances & misunderstandings as best we can, time moves so fast & seems to speed up as we get older.

Thank you! I realised it wasn't directed at my post, but it's nice of you to clarify.

‘We’re not censorious… we just want you people to shut up’

Sorry, this was not directed at morningtoncrescent but at the thread! Apologies.

Hahaha, that was funny, thanks for sharing!

Oh morningtoncrescent I'm sorry. (((hug)))

This article makes me sad.

I was a 15-year-old who lectured my parents about what was right and was convinced they knew nothing. I was slow to grow out of that kind of absolutist thinking and the conviction that I had all the answers, and for most of my 20s I alienated my parents. It was a dreadful, stupid mistake for all of us. It meant I hurt them, and I struggled more than I needed to as a young single parent when they would have helped me, and by the time I started to come round in my 30s it was too late to properly rebuild the relationships with them. They're dead now, and it's too late. The writer of that article, and the other adults who applaud teenagers' intolerance and dogmatic thinking, aren't doing them or those around them any favours at all.

Yes, agree.

TheBiologyStupid "I have peas in the freezer older than you" is even better 😆

When I was 15 I was astounded at how ignorant my parents were. By the time I was 25 I was amazed at how much they'd learned.

What goes around, comes around. It won't be too many years and she may well be the mother of a 15 year old who hectors her about the error of thy ways.

Total bait, wheeling out a real-life Titania McGrath to lecture the oldies on how to be as enlightened as her.

The Times knows what they're doing.

See it's all fun and games when the men around you play along as you say what they want you to say to keep them in control.

Like cats playing with mice as my granny used to say.

And, if she is in her late 20s, she's not that far off her expiry date.

Ageism.
Also, she will learn. The bitter truth of it won't be apparent to her yet. She's unaware she has a shelf life.

Transwomansplaining?!

That reminded me of "I've got peas in the freezer older than you"
Anna Howie 'Live from The Royal Oak, Tunbridge Wells`during lockdown. Starts about 5:45 minutes in: fb.watch/4goYvoFra4/

Yes. I did wonder if the brief was 'write something that will wind all our readers up to the nth degree, for the outrage clicks'.

@Angrymum22 certainly feels like that sometimes

That piece is so cringingly bad, I think it was borderline spiteful to go ahead and publish it. She’s going to have to live with that now.

“I find it incredibly sad that younger generations lack the ability to think critically.“

See, I think the young can think critically about some things, but not the things likely to get you yelled at by your peers for wrongthink (or that you fear will get you yelled at, but actually wouldn’t because everyone is silently thinking the same thing). Better not to look into it too much in case you end up on the side of the devil.

I reckon young TERFs are pretty quiet about it on the whole. I speak in code when I think I’ve found a fellow TERF-under-25 like I’m part of an underground conspiracy.

I sometimes wonder whether my generation, Gen X, were a one off generation. Our parents were intolerant of our views and now our children or more likely grandchildren show little tolerance of our views. We seemed to be sandwiched between two generations of explainers.
The World Wide Web and social media have rendered it unnecessary to leave your bedroom to explore the world and experience everything need to develop a healthy view of society. We are too quick to believe without actually forming our own opinion based on real life experience.
I find it incredibly sad that younger generations lack the ability to think critically.

For example, she would have the money to leave a violent relationship without worrying about how she was going to cover the rent on a new property.

Exactly. Why worry about the vulnerable women who would be most affected by the erosion of sex specific spaces, when you're never going to be one, right?

Throw those losers under the bus as fast as you can. While jumping up and down for the cool points from the woke bros.

Dont forget to congratulate yourself for your lack of bigotry 👏