"Too many millennials grew up subject to — not my words — failed parenting strategies," notes Sinek. Millennials were routinely told, for instance, that they were special. They were told they could have "anything they want in life, just 'cause they want it."
Once again, true. But there's more to it than that. This message to which Sinek refers was specifically directed to girls by their feminist-minded mothers. Sinek talks about the self-esteem movement and the harm it's done to millennials, and I agree. But we can't separate the self-esteem movement from the feminist movement. They're two sides of the same coin.
The self-esteem movement says, “There’s no one quite like you. You’re amazing. Go — seize the world.” And feminism says, “Your mothers’ lives were constrained. Don’t live the way they did — reach for the stars instead!”
As a result, girls and young women both then and now feel entitled to lives that defy description. They should be out-of-this-world exciting!
As a result, girls and young women both then and now feel entitled to lives that defy description. They should be out-of-this-world exciting!
It was a powerful message that set off a chain of events. Millennials are the first generation of women to reject marriage and motherhood and to instead pile up degree upon degree, resulting in debt that, while theoretically was supposed to help them get established for marriage, instead dealt them a cruel blow: now they can't afford to get married.
With this one simple (but destructive) message, everything changed. Today more than half of young people don't have a romantic partner at all, let alone a spouse. Marriage has taken a serious nosedive, and we are all worse off as a result.
At the end of the day, Americans have underestimated the power the feminist narrative had on an entire generation of women. Even millennials don't understand it — they never knew any other way to live. But that is changing.
Millennials were told they were special but learned that they aren't. They were told they don't need a man but learned that they do. They were told that children will hold them back but discovered that children are precisely what they want. In fact, family is all they really want.
Only now they're too old or too broke to have one.....snip~
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...on-millennials
Bad bad Feminists. First you ruined relationships between men and women. Then created more problems with men. Now you have screwed up whole generations of women. What did Albright say.....There is a special place in hell for women that don't help other women, Right?
So you know you will be staying in the last room on the left. No there will be no room service.