I get so happy whenever i see this. Sarah Anderson easily has the most relatable comics. Absolutely gonna carry treats for all the 13/10 puppers
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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for one thing, this is not millenial humor, millenial humor is template meme formats with the early oughts internet humor era.
This is closer to gen z, early gen z, but still.
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14/10 with rice.
I don't quite understand why it's okay to pigeonhole people based on their age. It's the same obtuse logic that racism works on: You ascribe all your prejudices to a imaginary group that is defined by nothing more than a single characteristic - be it age, race, gender or whatever. Don't get me wrong, I'm a millennial myself and I think this post is funny. Other might not.
What I'm trying to say is that I can't quite understand that with all the political correctness that is rightly emphasized these days, age discrimination seems to be excluded.
I just don't think this form of discrimination is particularly helpful to anybody, as it also pits one group against another - just like rasicsm does. So please don't normalize that stuff just because it's the only ...ism left that is accepted in social media.
And just to get that out of the way: Ok, boomer or millenial comments in response to this comment are not particularly original.
Race, gender and whatever are "people that are not like me". Jokes about old people are jokes about myself, because I (hopefully) will get old myself one day.
Aww, that's wholesome.
I think we do this because of the school system, fast moving trends and technologies, and lastly marketing campaigns.
The school system does a good job keeping everyone separated by age. So different classes will often have different trends and might compete against each other. Then once out of school, people still have this framing.
There are also real differences in how I experienced childhood versus other people when they were kids, with internet and cellphones not being prevalent like today. Also certain events like 9/11 and Columbine caused a lot of national conversations. It felt unique to my experience and so I want to share and contrast that with others. We all have a shared human experience, and it's interesting to find commonalities and differences in that. Which is probably why OP posted - the shared human experience of getting old and what we might look like.
And last, I think a lot of the simplistic, controversial stuff just comes from advertisers trying to make people feel insecure so they can sell them something.
Yes, sure people always like to think in a in- and out-group kind of way: people in your class, people in your city, people in your country, people of your race, of your age group, gender and so on. It's a social thing that helps us to categorize things and deal with the complexity of the world.
But what I don't get is how one can be against any kind of stereotype thinking when it comes to one thing but think in the most stereotypical kind of way when it comes to the next thing. It's weird.
Well, that's an interesting thought for sure and it's something linguistics and philosophy focuses on - the arbitrary nature of boundaries/categories and what's salient and why.
There's a good book called Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasia that talks about salience to different people. It makes a soft argument that perhaps everyone has synesthesia, but we all repress it to some degree (unless diagnosed with the actual synesthia condition). And different people have different types of synesthesia. So we are all experiencing and categorizing differently.
Then we have life experiences and trauma on top of that. Many times people focus on particular groups because of systems, perceived or real, within those groups that affected them. Sometimes it's not even a real experience, but instead trauma from parenting that is triggered by the metaphor of these systems. They are mainly worried about safety and security, which is often why the group they hate is simultaneously weak and powerless while also being horrible and the worst and extremely deadly.
When you combine those two, you can see the drive for their stereotyping (desire for safety) and what they find salient to criticize. Ignoring the nonspecific value statements (eg bad, stupid), and focusing on more specific criticisms can help you suss out what's actually being disliked and if it's related to a sensory thing, trauma, and/or rational criticism.
"They are awful. I hate soldiers. They burned my village. It smelled like smoke. Whenever I see someone in camo, I smell smoke that tastes like death and cooking bodies."
The above person has gustatory-olfactory synethesia and that's how their brain triangulates their memories, along with sight and emotion. They may even KNOW not all soldiers will hurt them or burn down their new house. But they have these mental and emotional patterns that automatically get triggered. They've likely based a lot of their mental scaffolding on that. To suddenly change their mind isn't physically possible because it takes neurochemicals to change mental pathways and it takes time. Just like I can't deadlift 300lbs immediately because it takes time to grow those muscle cells enough to do that.
Some people don't have any energy, neurochemicals, or time to change their mind. Some people are living desperately and can only focus on so much. Being humble enough to self analyze and improve yourself, being brave enough to deal with the fear and pain of trauma, is a lot. We also all have blindspots and aren't all perfect.
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Ok, Boomer. Tl;dr. Skibidi ohio.
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Boomers: racism, wife bad
Millennials: aggressive misunderstandings, the collapse is imminent, domng cute
Gen alpha: remember when there was fish, skibidi
The collapse is imminent, and y'all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it. Living as if you haven't nothing to worry about tomorrow, how do you get through the day?
y’all doubting it are gonna be sorry you werent as anxious as I was the whole time waiting for it
Is that helping?
That's their point. It's millennial sarcasm: indistinguishable from actual sentiment, that way they can deny they mean it.
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Gen Z is the new Gen X, lol. People just skip over them.
I always assumed the tail of gen x and the head of gen z was included in “millennials.” TIL that’s not the case
We’re called Xennials. We had an analog childhood with a digital young adulthood.
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Can confirm, Gen-X here. We're all either Boomers or Millennials depending on whatever is coming out of our mouths.
To all that noise, I say: Meh, whatever.
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I've heard of 5/7 but what is 13/10 from?
I think it's from an insta/Twitter account named WeRateDogs, but I could be wrong.
You are correct.
For anyone else unaware, the schtick of the account was they'd always rate dogs with ratings of x/10 with x always being greater than 10. It was pretty funny how often people would get upset over this.
Dumb me thought the dogger was the one saying "huh?"
I think the artist must have been avoiding drawing a 3rd person, lol