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Originally Posted by Danny Himself
I laughed so hard when I first discovered that article.
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So the article is by the Maddox idiot then.
I don't find anything funny about it at all.
What I don't like though is parents that overinflate their children's egos with bumper stickers and the like. They are obviously overcompensating because, knowing deep down that they are shit for parents, they make a show of revelling in the fact that their child made some decent grades.
crap like this...
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT Do today's Gen Yers believe in themselves a little too much?
A Conspiracy of Doting
It's not really the Millennials who are to blame; it's their parents. We're talking about a generation of boomers who posted "My Child Is an Honor Roll Student" bumper stickers on their minivans and wanted to designate playing volleyball as being a cruel and unusual punishment. Of course the Millennials think they're magic. They were spoiled.
Generation X survived AIDS, Reagan, the Cold War. But consider the stress Millennials face today: simultaneously maintaining Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr accountsNow the boomers are teaming up with the younger generation in a new campaign to further render us obsolete. Where a Gen Xer was likely to get a tongue-lashing for borrowing a stapler from his/her boomer boss, the Millennials are finding boomers to be loving mentors, eager to show them the ropes. After all, the kids who are now coming of age and entering the workplace are, well, their babies. Boomers were doting parents from the get-go, and now, as they're beginning to retire, they want to ensure that their children hold the keys to the throne. Even younger Gen Xers, who were in many cases also raised by boomers, are getting screwed. They have to sit back and watch their younger, Millennial siblings bask in a generational conspiracy of doting.
Let's face facts: The boomers always detested Generation X. They felt threatened by our youth, confused by our lack of earnestness, and deeply troubled by our lack of appreciation for
James Taylor. The boomers' entire identity was wrapped around being young and progressive. Gen X was an affront to their place in the world. What's more, they never understood us, instead insisting that our archetypal achievement—the blueprint for what made us tick—was a tawdry
Ben Stiller film that featured
Ethan Hawke as a pouty, manically depressed
James Dean.
Since the '90s, boomers have plotted to turn us into the redheaded stepchild of generations. We were slackers. Cynical. We loved
Pauly Shore. (Okay, their animosity is legitimate here.)
(atari 2600 ed. I always had disdain for Mr. Shore, the spoiled kid of The Comedy Store founder, his was a simple case of blatant runaway nepotism.) Even our name, Generation X, was a slur, indicating namelessness and the feeling of being overshadowed by the boom. As defined in Wikipedia, "X referred to the namelessness of a generation that was coming into an awareness of its existence as a separate group but feeling overshadowed by the boomer generation." Overshadowed? How about kicked to the curb with nothing but the jewel case from
In Utero to keep us warm?
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/05/generation_x_millennials_facebook_kevin_colvin_bab y_boomers_1.php