How is this any different from any other time period? 

Being overly earnest was considered a faux pas when I was dating in my early 20s too. I hate these generational stories that frame young people’s experience of youth as somehow new or different from how things have always been. 

https://www.wired.com/story/biggest-dating-app-faux-pas-for-gen-z-being-cringe/

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Who is this bitch?

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This type of cultural journalism would so benefit from actually reacting out to some sociologists or historians for context and to give actual rigor to the claims they’re making about the nature of certain generations or groups.

I feel this way about the cuts west village girl article. I didn’t read the article, in full disclosure, but omg stop mocking the people (young women in this case) who create a vibe economy that is yummy to consume (they are a certain group, and that isn’t random in the overall landscape of structural inequality IMO) and easy to hate (what’s more hate-able than a conventionally attractive young woman enjoying herself and not centering a man?? And enabled by a certain kind of privilege - don’t you dare break it!); for women it’s a story we get hit with generationally. Take for some millennial women; they are adhering to 4B movement and the converse is narrative that men are lonely and why aren’t women dating them?? I’m sure that she was the spinster of the turn of the century.

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