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i mean.. i am a part of gen z yeah, but why is the rest of them so....
like.. 8 year old me would wear sequin shirts and patterned leggings with hoodies, but 8 year olds these days are just...
they be walking outside with the most diabolical outfit god could imagine. aka,croptops,short skirts,fashion galsses.
but im glad im not in gen alpha [oh hell nah] dont even get me started....
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gideon ☆
i don't think i'll ever understand the obsession with seperating generations and looking down on current/past/future generations. everyone was "weird" in their own little way, everyone has once looked down on a future generation and went "i would NEVER do that."
i think it's okay to just exist. i think if a child is dressing inappropriately that says nothing about the generation and more about the parents who are raising them. sometimes kids also like to express themselves in creative ways, because that's just what kids do. they grow and learn about themselves and sometimes there will be cringey stages in life.
when i was 8 i wore a lot of stupid clothes that the generation before me would laugh at, but i was having fun. that's what anyone wants really. to have fun with life and be happy. this constant judgment that keeps being passed around gets old in my opinion.
Arik Ozotf
well one, every generation was considered weird as kids. also social media has a bigger effect on society these days, and it doesn't help that parents don't parent as often and just give their kids a phone/tablet.
if you're 8, and your parents gave you unrestricted internet access and left you alone, you'd likely be the same. then, you follow people you look up to or find them cool because they get lots of attention. and those people dress like that. with your unrestricted internet access, you'll probably also stream a few tv shows where everyone dresses like that. insert a few friends or acquaintances who may or may not also have a phone. they'll do the same things, and either implicitly or explicitly pressure you to fit in.
i do agree that their style is ridiculous, and i wore the exact same thing you did at 8. but also, i have parents who'd yell at me if i ever considered leaving the house in that. i also didn't follow influencers when i was 8. maybe one person wore a crop top, but most didn't have phones or atleast unrestricted internet access, so they never got the idea to do so.
David-Angelo Mineo
I am going to account this to parents who ate paint chips while pregnant or teaching their kids that its ok to be just like Billy Madison: “Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
I am not being serious here but I am serious that parents do not parent their kids to such a level that its ok to accept nonsensical thinking as normal. If I did that back in the 80s and 90s, I would have been punished severely and there in-lies part of the problem. We have to make the punishment for nonsense so severe that kids growing up in the environment where nonsense is accepted as normal will understand not only is it wrong to think that way but also dreading the punishment.
Its ok to get anxiety about being punished. Its how real conceptual learning is done. How does a baby know not to touch a hot stove or put a metal fork into an electrical socket? Either direct experience of pain or the fear of pain. But now we have taken that concept, redefined it and call it anxiety and we now teach kids that if you get anxiety we need to cater to that.
No, we need to use it as a tool to teach... One is supposed to freakout from the fear of being electrocuted or burned and it be of their own creation. They should feel FK'n awkward about that.