This starts off numbered, but...
I feel like I've been trying to articulate this since last month and still not any closer to what I want to say, so I'm just going to present what I've now: I feel like the youngers of the generation before me aren't adjusting well to their parents not caring about their shenanigans anymore.
* 1) This may all by caused by spits of pseudocelebrities and real life people aren't at all like this.
* 2) Maybe it's not so much a generational thing as it is a when-you-reach-a-certain-age thing? Like note 1 implied, I don't know anybody.
* 3) I get it. You're ~Gen X~. I'd a whole post on how I could relate/understand but...
* 4) You're a late twenty-something/early thirty-something with a college degree and you're associating medical disorders with Kristen Stewart in the wake of that ~cheating ordeal on the internet. Wow, you really showed that 12 year old who has no control whatsoever over anything else in her life.
* I am the last person to defend K. Stew but that she gets trashed for that Snow White sequel yet the married-with-kids director doesn't is ridiculous to me. Some people say it is an example of the misogyny in our society. I can't grasp why so many people-- especially people who don't even like her or Twilight-- even care.
I'm trying to create analogies in my head, like, "Oh, what if this actor I liked..." But, it's like, I don't even care! It may not seem that way from this post, but honestly my reaction to this was a Mitt Romney chuckle. And then, I do not think about it. Do people just bathe in things they dislike? I can't even image that. Like, this doesn't effect me in any form. Here's where things can split into several directions.
* The person I'm cowardly "vaguebooking" or whatever one'd call this post kind of works in "the biz," so maybe she does have to hear about this a crap load more than me, a caveman (but I still have to hear about Honey Boo Boo so fuck this point).
* I make it seem like the stragglers of "Gen X" are snooty because they don't like Twilight, but really it's more about positions. The people that I'm talking about are newly independent and hate popular things and seemingly the people that like these things. I don't want to make it seem that everyone who likes Twilight is a kid, but would it be fair to say a majority? Or at least, to whom it's marketed?
Louis C.K. has this bit where he talks about how great it is to be a white male. There's nothing you can say to him-- "You can't even hurt my feelings." Not a perfect simile, but... to a 12 year old, a 30 year old IS A GIANT. You can drive, you could own a car, you can be in adult school or fuck school altogether! You can fuck! You can have babies and pets! You can have credit cards with your name, you can change your name! Sure, they can say, "Old people smell!" but guess who's doesn't have a bedtime and doesn't have to learn about triangles or some shit the next day? You do. Who kind of looks like a dick with he/she goes after someone who does?...
* On the other hand, 18 years also seemed like a giant. You can do all those things when you're in the ballpark of 18. When I was in the ballpark and afterwards, I didn't feel the age, as if some adult-puberty fairy shows up one day, taps you on the head, and ta-da! You're interested in fiduciary responsibility! Obviously, that didn't happen, maybe it doesn't happen. Maybe these guys still think they're the powerless kids taking down the popular/powerful kids in the cafeteria.
But the world was always awful. Do people who compare how great things when they were a kid even keep up with what's happening now? Or do they just become one of the forces they were rebelling against?
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Terrific!" - Mitt Romney laugh
(I know Rob Delaney put it as whenever he sees Jar Jar Binks on screen, but now it's how I imagine it all the time).
* 1) This may all by caused by spits of pseudocelebrities and real life people aren't at all like this.
* 2) Maybe it's not so much a generational thing as it is a when-you-reach-a-certain-age thing? Like note 1 implied, I don't know anybody.
* 3) I get it. You're ~Gen X~. I'd a whole post on how I could relate/understand but...
* 4) You're a late twenty-something/early thirty-something with a college degree and you're associating medical disorders with Kristen Stewart in the wake of that ~cheating ordeal on the internet. Wow, you really showed that 12 year old who has no control whatsoever over anything else in her life.
* I am the last person to defend K. Stew but that she gets trashed for that Snow White sequel yet the married-with-kids director doesn't is ridiculous to me. Some people say it is an example of the misogyny in our society. I can't grasp why so many people-- especially people who don't even like her or Twilight-- even care.
I'm trying to create analogies in my head, like, "Oh, what if this actor I liked..." But, it's like, I don't even care! It may not seem that way from this post, but honestly my reaction to this was a Mitt Romney chuckle. And then, I do not think about it. Do people just bathe in things they dislike? I can't even image that. Like, this doesn't effect me in any form. Here's where things can split into several directions.
* The person I'm cowardly "vaguebooking" or whatever one'd call this post kind of works in "the biz," so maybe she does have to hear about this a crap load more than me, a caveman (but I still have to hear about Honey Boo Boo so fuck this point).
* I make it seem like the stragglers of "Gen X" are snooty because they don't like Twilight, but really it's more about positions. The people that I'm talking about are newly independent and hate popular things and seemingly the people that like these things. I don't want to make it seem that everyone who likes Twilight is a kid, but would it be fair to say a majority? Or at least, to whom it's marketed?
Louis C.K. has this bit where he talks about how great it is to be a white male. There's nothing you can say to him-- "You can't even hurt my feelings." Not a perfect simile, but... to a 12 year old, a 30 year old IS A GIANT. You can drive, you could own a car, you can be in adult school or fuck school altogether! You can fuck! You can have babies and pets! You can have credit cards with your name, you can change your name! Sure, they can say, "Old people smell!" but guess who's doesn't have a bedtime and doesn't have to learn about triangles or some shit the next day? You do. Who kind of looks like a dick with he/she goes after someone who does?...
* On the other hand, 18 years also seemed like a giant. You can do all those things when you're in the ballpark of 18. When I was in the ballpark and afterwards, I didn't feel the age, as if some adult-puberty fairy shows up one day, taps you on the head, and ta-da! You're interested in fiduciary responsibility! Obviously, that didn't happen, maybe it doesn't happen. Maybe these guys still think they're the powerless kids taking down the popular/powerful kids in the cafeteria.
But the world was always awful. Do people who compare how great things when they were a kid even keep up with what's happening now? Or do they just become one of the forces they were rebelling against?
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Terrific!" - Mitt Romney laugh
(I know Rob Delaney put it as whenever he sees Jar Jar Binks on screen, but now it's how I imagine it all the time).