I need a rant about millennials

[HanG77]

Okay, I may offend millennials but hear me out (and please, millennials, offer me an explanation as to why your generation do this)...I've just had a discussion with a millennial on a thread for a social media post showing the Tartan Army having a blast in Boston, her comment was about how it was "healing the millennials". I replied saying it's lovely for all generations to watch given how divisive the world is, and she said due to 9/11 millennials crave the world healing more. I get this a lot with millennials - like they think every cultural experience is about them or for them - even taking things that are from other generations and claiming it as their era - and they act like no other generation has had any big events to deal with. I argued the Lost Generation (world war) and Gen Z (being children/early adults when the whole world stopped) have had it worse out of all the living generations (in my opinion).

For context, I'm a British Gen X, also I have a lot of close millennial friends so it's not personal, it's about them as a collective. Also, this person was American - I think maybe the American nationalism adds to it (more so than with Brits of this generation).

Millennial aren't those born in 2000, but those coming of age around the turn of the millennium (with a fairly generous margin for 'around').

I had to vote YANBU just because what your friend said sounds so annoying!

I don’t have any experience of millennials in generals acting in this way personally but it would have irritated me.

There is a theme on social about “Millenials living through another disaster” but your friend sounds like a self absorbed pillock.

Gen X has the AIDS crisis

Huh? I'm a Boomer - still paying rent by the way - and remember the Aids crisis well. Still around as well.

All this trying to fit people into pigeon holes by giving it labels does us no good.

Surely most millennials were teenagers for 9/11 and won’t have been massively impacted, in the uk at least.

Maybe it sounded weird to you, but I suppose every generation has it's challenges and instead of this war of words between us maybe we should start listening to each other. As a generation Xer I remember the cold war and anxiety about the world ending in a nuclear explosion. The older generation who had already been through WW2 would probably have thought we were neurotic.

It's a good job this person did not live through the the decades when there was a genuine threat of a Nuclear War.

She wouldn't have lasted five minutes.

Do these people ever have any type of enjoyment or happiness?. As they say Misery loves Company. Lets get upset on somebody else's behalf.

Im gen x. What are you talking about? This just didnt make sense?

Nobody is claiming the AIDS crisis was exclusively experienced by Gen X. Unlike certain Millennials claiming to have been the only generation to live through the development of the Internet.

Thank you. My gen z DD is nearly 29 remembers dial up internet and is laden herself with student debt to gain a nursing degree which the final year in my opinion she should be given a refund for as she stepped up as a nightingale nurse.
But who would pay for that refund her great grandchildren if the future exists?

Can't say I've noticed this but then, I am not the sort of person who lumps people into labelled groups. This country suffers from too much (largely made up) division - please can I ask that you contain your hobby to the 'Let's bleat about how awful (insert preferred generation here) are' to reddit. Alternatively, you could try generally broadening your horizons.
People are not lumpen masses.

I hate all this generation stuff

its bullshit made up by companies for marketing

Millennial here - I've never heard anyone use 9/11 as a reason or excuse. Is this more of a thing in the U.S. or something?

No idea. I'm American and I've never heard this. FWIW, the largest generational group to die in 9/11 were Boomers.

American Millennial (and local to Boston) - I haven't heard anyone say this nor do I think it myself.