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[–] JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gen Z "men" voted for Trump because they're racist sexist homophobic pieces of shit like their fathers are.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their fathers were absent. Andrew Tate raised them.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Elder millennial parents pioneered unparenting. They are insufferable and have the shittiest kids. The iPad generation is how I know them.

Hopefully young men in this country wake up before the wars Republicans always start turn them into casualty statistics.

Edit: I'm a younger parent than the people I'm bitching about.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

You can't even go out to a brewery in my area without a bunch of unparented kiddos running around your feet.

Some of them even have their fucking birthdays at the brewery. Happy 8th, Stetson! Your first present this year is watching Mommy and Daddy get hammered and have public arguments.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Ah yes the alcoholic parent. We pioneered this one ourselves. Quite the accomplishment. Having never seen our parents slam down Natty Ice each day after work, we had no idea what we were getting into.

Never before in history, had anyone ever chosen to have a drinking problem, and kids simultaneously.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I get that you're being a sarcastic asshole, but birthdays for 5 and 8 year olds at what is basically a pub is definitely a newer thing. Maybe they always had them in ancient Sumeria or some shit, but here in the states it took a while for places like this to even allow children into them.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, comments like the one you are responding to, are ignorant of history. Millennials drink less than previous generations, as Z drinks less than Millennials. Also what we now call unparenting has been a thing for long time. I have read articles discussing not disciplining your child, and believing their natural curiosity will lead them to what they need to be successful, as a concerning trend, from the 19th century. For a much more modern example, the Simpsons did a bit about this decades ago. In a flashback to Ned's childhood, he is an absolute terror, and his beatnik/hipster parents are talking to a specialist about it, and say "we've tried nothing, and we are all out of ideas". When I was a teen, in the 90s, there was a massive trend of not disciplining, or properly educating, your child because "you will just be killing their creativity".

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, comments like the one you are responding to, are ignorant of history.

Ah yes, the long, storied history of microbreweries and having birthday parties for children at them.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Every single generation gets accused of creating the worst children ever, and they were just so much better back in the day. It's quite literally a tale as old as time.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  • Plato, ~400 BCE
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Ah yes the tale as old as time about people throwing their child's birthday parties at the local microbrewery and having them run around the establishment and play loud video games on iPads.

You're right, there has been millennia of truck dads and wine moms convening for hazy IPAs and taco trucks while not watching their five year old in public.