Who the hell even writes articles like this? 🤣
Do people really think that people born between certain years invented…staring?
Seriously, you could change the dates on an article like this, make it about Gen X or Gen Y, and it would be the same thing. Or about boomers. Or fast forward a bit and it will be articles like this about Gen Alpha.
“The older people just don’t understand the ways of the younger people. It’s like this is a completely novel thing between these two generations.”
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Y’all missed out on the “Millenials killed the (insert here) industry, and are broke due to avocado toast” articles of yesteryear.
LOL, Gen X here. We saw a lot of that kind hand-wringing about how we were a “slacker generation” that was not taking up ad campaigns in expected ways and/or playing video games too much and not being career-minded enough, etc. and how we thought there was “no future” because of things like the Cold War and nuclear annihilation, kids of broken homes and latchkey kids, homes needing to have two incomes to get by, and the dystopian movies we grew up on.
Then they mostly skipped over us because Gen X is not as large of a group as Gen Y.
That’s why when I see articles like this about Gen Y/Z/A, I just lauuuuuugh. It’s all so very unimaginative, but the people writing these galaxy-brained things seemingly have no fucking idea how recycled it all is.
ikr TFA says “…Gen X might have been taught to be overly friendly and polite in customer service settings…” and I was like: wat? Maybe they TRIED, but our stereotypical response was always “…meh.”
Oh no, I was taught to be polite, or there would likely be violence. The threat of Dad’s punishment was always on the table.
LOL, right? Have any of these people even met Gen X or watched some of the media aimed at Gen X?
It’s not like we invented disaffected youth, but it’s like plenty of music and movies captured that and made it an aesthetic for us. I recommend anyone thinking otherwise watch something like Repo Man.
I’m sure plenty of boomers in their youth had some of the same fuck you attitudes. They were the people that said “don’t trust anyone over 30” and “hope I die before I get old”?
Does anyone really think they were super bubbly in their teens and twenties while carrying out McJobs for The Man?
The Breakfast Club comes to mind.
Per one “expert” quoted in the article: “Gen Z employees come from a generation that is starkly genuine”. That should tell you all you need to now about the quality of this article.
The 26-year-old was at a Phoenix grocery store, heavily pregnant, when an older woman in the checkout line remarked how “huge and fat” her feet were, telling her she was going to have a “fat baby.”
The reaction is the genz stare. So just. Normal stuff with a genz label and a “ok boomer” insult?
Do I not understand because I’m neither a boomer nor a genz?
Nah nobody understands cause its just an attempt to create some infighting between generations.
Assholes exist and always have, in all generations.
What the fuck is this bullshit Gen Z Stare that is being heavily promoted as a thing all of a sudden? All of the gen ‘blah’ garbage is just that… it gets created to sell papers and to divide people. The blank WTF stare has always existed. It has nothing to do with a particular generation.
Without reading, let me guess that it involves tiptoeing around their sense of entitlement, whilst simultaneously acknowledging their victim status- but not too overtly, or they will get very upset and require hours of safe-room ass kisses.
Am I close?
Gotta be content ragebait with how awfuly that article is written.
They contradict themselves so much with their own examples, what’s ‘polite’ about calling someone fat? And how is a technique thats existed for centuries suddenly more rude than entertaining some asshole in a store?
You think that stare is specific to gen Z?
Apologies, but for some reason I understand it, even if from the first glance the article seems uncommon…
I am around 40 myself, but it feels like some younger people don’t want to think much at all… They just don’t care and their “stare” shows that you mean nothing, or do not consider your an individual at all but just an objectified obstacle.
It feels indeed like some people nowadays have “glass”, “voided”, or just “empty” eyes…
That isn’t something new to Gen Z. You’re just noticing it now because you’ve matured, but I promise you that your age cohort behaved the same 15 years ago.
Upvoting because the article itself is infuriating.
ikr in comments OP states that the article is the target of the infuriation, but it’s ambiguous, and I think most dowvoters are assuming the “stare” of the article is considered infuriating.
