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Dude, stand down. I'm not saying the young'uns are engaging in cannibalism.
(I'm not even admitting I'm not one of the young'uns any more, at my ripe old age of 34.)
(Can't make me.)
I'm just saying that this particular bride seems to have been smoking some of the booger sugar to have made an embarrassing implicit expectation explicit.
Did I implicitly want a unicorn on my special day? YES.
Would I have looked like a fool if I explicitly pouted when it didn't show up ... well, also yes.
If we're in the middle of a social change-over, as occurs with the passage of time, so be it. But it looks really silly when people lash out at members of their own cohort. If you want to tell off Aunt Mildred, who thinks that sort of gift basket is cool according to 1977 dollars ... oh, wait, no one does, because then it becomes apparent it's inappropriate. If Aunt Mildred's daughter Hilda operates according to the same mindset, but happens to belong to your generation? Dude, invite her if you love her, don't if she's a drag, but you can't make it conditional according to some set of standards that won't fully permeate society until your great-grand-babies day!
(I'm not even admitting I'm not one of the young'uns any more, at my ripe old age of 34.)
(Can't make me.)
I'm just saying that this particular bride seems to have been smoking some of the booger sugar to have made an embarrassing implicit expectation explicit.
Did I implicitly want a unicorn on my special day? YES.
Would I have looked like a fool if I explicitly pouted when it didn't show up ... well, also yes.
If we're in the middle of a social change-over, as occurs with the passage of time, so be it. But it looks really silly when people lash out at members of their own cohort. If you want to tell off Aunt Mildred, who thinks that sort of gift basket is cool according to 1977 dollars ... oh, wait, no one does, because then it becomes apparent it's inappropriate. If Aunt Mildred's daughter Hilda operates according to the same mindset, but happens to belong to your generation? Dude, invite her if you love her, don't if she's a drag, but you can't make it conditional according to some set of standards that won't fully permeate society until your great-grand-babies day!