Quote: (06-09-2014 12:29 PM)Vaun Wrote:
Quote: (06-09-2014 12:26 PM)kaotic Wrote:
Social Media.
how do you explain a pre-social media world to someone who never experienced it?
Girls actually interacted with the world; weren't negative, snarky, and combative; could meet your eye instead of staring at the ground when they talked to you; had a realistic understanding of danger; were interested rather than disinterested in attention from men; and being considered 'hot' was the concern of teenagers, not 40 year old career women. Any girl who publicly-spoke of staying home all weekend to binge-watch television series would have been humiliated as a loser, not celebrated.
Now, there's always the sense that Millenial Girls don't quite understand genuine human emotions - their smiles are awkward and exaggerated, not natural. Everything is a performance. I'll observe girls in groups and note they're all running a series of parallel conversations as they attend to their mobile phones - they're all using groups for camouflage the fact they're all isolated, disconnected individuals faking personas of how they want to be perceived, because they're so desperately-insecure that their need to be liked to hold back a complete mental breakdown radiates from every fibre of their being.
They don't recognise men as real people. We are accessories, of no more import to her than the latest handbag, to be discarded when out of fashion, because they don't know how to truly-connect with one, and are terrified of being rejected even if they could.
Girls weren't always like this. 90% of the capability for fun and joy has been removed from them since my childhood and they're jaded by puberty. They're never existing in the moment, but thinking of how they're being observed by others, so even when they're happy, they're removed. The rest of the time, they're depressed worker drones, disconnected from whatever work they do, dreaming of something better, always dissatisfied, pissed off that the world has disappointed them and hasn't given them everything they obviously deserve, meaning their interactions with the world are shrouded in a cloud of misery, anger and bitterness.
I grew up with girls who would suggest breaking in to an abandoned building for the excitement, and you'd probably get a sly HJ out of the deal. Millenial Girls barely seem alive. Just my observation. If you haven't experienced them before, you won't realise how damaged they've become.