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    We have greatly underestimated feminism's harmful influence on millennials......

    "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.
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    I see it in my little world at work. The younger attorneys want to start at the top of the pay scale and are jumping from job to job to get a larger paycheck. But they are not developing the skills to be successful. And the type of law that I do is a niche area where the older manager level types all know each other. The younger people are no doing themselves any favors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I see it in my little world at work. The younger attorneys want to start at the top of the pay scale and are jumping from job to job to get a larger paycheck. But they are not developing the skills to be successful. And the type of law that I do is a niche area where the older manager level types all know each other. The younger people are no doing themselves any favors.

    Its the same in my industry. News Print. But they are noticing how middle management always gets $#@!-canned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I see it in my little world at work. The younger attorneys want to start at the top of the pay scale and are jumping from job to job to get a larger paycheck. But they are not developing the skills to be successful. And the type of law that I do is a niche area where the older manager level types all know each other. The younger people are no doing themselves any favors.
    They want the money, but not the investment in learning and achievement that goes with it. Once upon a time it was called making your bones.
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    I try not to make judgements about millenials although its hard not to be opinionated about them.
    My father viewed the woodstock crowd and the 60s protesters with great disdain, he was a combat vet WW2

    In the end its not the millenials fault, part of it was addressed here, their parents but both their parents and millenials are beingg destroyed by public education, rather those that control public education that are forcing teachers to indoctrinate instead of actually teach.

    It was the long term liberal plan to mold youth to their thinking through education and frankly they are winning, if they havent won already
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    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.....snip~



    Fell off into video games. Plus the Feminists couldn't push them to pay for their own date being broke.

    Of course that doesn't count all the ones that don't exercise and sit around stuffing their faces.
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    I have two young lawyers in my office. One can’t get there before 10:30. The other won’t stay past 4. They want large offices and high salaries for part time work. One, she copied a brief off of our system and passed it off as her own. When challenged, she was upset we checked. She claimed she is too busy and I suggested she stay past 4. Tears. The other one cried when he didn’t get a big fancy office - after 1 year out. Yep, they’ve been hardened for this business.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I have two young lawyers in my office. One can’t get there before 10:30. The other won’t stay past 4. They want large offices and high salaries for part time work. One, she copied a brief off of our system and passed it off as her own. When challenged, she was upset we checked. She claimed she is too busy and I suggested she stay past 4. Tears. The other one cried when he didn’t get a big fancy office - after 1 year out. Yep, they’ve been hardened for this business.
    I have also noticed with the younger lawyers: they feel the Constitution is not above the level of statutory law- sort of a living Constitution taken to the extreme. That does no bode well for the future of the US.
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    It's even worse in the manual labor trades.

    We just hired a guy who is 27 years old - 70k in debt for student loans. Doesn't have a decent grasp of power tools. While not a deal breaker, it just goes to show he lacked the man education which should have been taught by a father or by some other experience.

    Kinda sad to see. I'm ashamed to call these creatures my peers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I have also noticed with the younger lawyers: they feel the Constitution is not above the level of statutory law- sort of a living Constitution taken to the extreme. That does no bode well for the future of the US.
    There is a bright side.....a lot of leftists are flunking out of law school. Then there is a whole lot that can't afford to get into law school.


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