#gen zer humour

[nines-09]

there are alot of different writing styles that often vary depending on what purpose the writing serves. some styles i think are better than others. but i think the worst writing style of all, is the extremely generalized, meant to appeal to everyone, millennial humour-esque journal writing style that you see in a lot of the "how to do [x, y, z] thing right!" articles.

admittedly, i am a bit of a fool. i lack a lot of general life knowledge about how to do basic life things. so i read a lot of these god awful articles. i find they waffle it with so much useless, unnecessary context and poorly timed puns. i swear, theres a formula to these articles. useless context, followed by a boring joke, then a reason this article might appeal to you, the reader, in the most generalizing manner possible, followed by another joke, then the actual content. of which is interspersed with more jokes.

perhaps this style appeals to more general audiences? or probably it is literally written by millennials, for millennials, hence why i find the style lacking being the qwuirky gen-zer that i am. maybe im just being a hater. idk. i understand the humour is meant to keep the reader engaged. but more often than not the useless prelude and lackluster jokes make me want to stop reading

alas. i need to read it to not be dumb. so i am trapped in the hell scape of reading lifestyle articles on how to do it right that bore me half to death before i even get to the actual point

[jakeperalta]

I totally understand how gen zers have become desensitized to everything given that we hear about bad things in the daily and making jokes helps us not totally lose our minds but my god the total lack of compassion or empathy for human beings is truly horrifying

yeah totally like humour as a coping mechanism is one thing but literally joking about or celebrating whole generations being at risk of dying...... what happened to compassion

#Anonymous #answered

[uss-edsall]

When an entire generation develops a common behavior, likely as a coping mechanism, and someone decides to blame them for it and not the environment or conditioning of their lives, it doesn't look um... intelligent.

If there’s any blame hat can be out on Millenials and Gen Zers it’s perpetuating suicide culture rather than trying to put an end to it. Millenials like to think we’ve got depressionposting down pat but if you’ve ever been in a secondary school classroom these days, there’s always this sort of weird atmosphere in a talkative class due to just how fucked up their conversations are, most of it morbid humour and blatant wishing for death. It’s not fun to watch, it’s disturbing, it’s not a good atmosphere, and it creates a bubble of accepted suicidal tendencies so to speak. Which makes it all that much harder to get help for the problem.Yes, environment and conditioning has a huge, huge role in why Millenials and Gen Zers are Like This, but I believe everyone has the capability of getting out of this culturally accepted depression shit. It has done nothing but harm to everyone involved.

[gaminghardware0]

Making it in Unreal: Spongebob Squarepants is back with Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated

Spongebob Squarepants is a television phenomenon whose place in history seems assured. The cartoon started in 1999 and defined childhoods of millenials and gen-Zers the world over. Hundreds of episodes following the yellow kitchen sponge and his friends have led to Spongebob Squarepants becoming one of the most recognisable and successful cartoons of all time. The memes alone will likely be with us for decades at least.

It wasn’t long before the series branched out into other media territories, and soon enough, in 2004, Battle for Bikini Bottom was released. The videogame, like the series, became a cult hit and a a staple in the childhood memories of many, even winning a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award in the same year.

And now, 16 years later, the game is making a comeback. 2020’s Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated will remake the game for a new generation of Spongebob fans. This has all gotten very profound, considering the silliness and humour of the Spongebob series, so we’re going to dry our eyes and tell you all about the conversation we’ve had with Philipp Kogelnig, a senior programmer at Purple Lamp Studios.

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from https://www.pcgamesn.com/spongebob-squarepants-battle-for-bikini-bottom-rehydrated/making-it-in-unreal

[bestofallhans]

Gender nonconformity

Until I was 13 or 14, in the 90s, I had short hair. I wasn’t allowed to grow it due to a belief my mum had that it would make my hair grow stronger, or thicker, or something.

TIP: if you have very thick, dark, Mediterranean hair, you probably don’t need to encourage it to grow more, especially during puberty.

It was the subject of many, many hours of crying, hiding, confusion and bullying for me. People assumed I was a boy. Several people in our community didn’t realise I was a girl until I grew it out, or started to develop into a teenager - hard to know which, as they happened simultaneously. I was bullied at primary and secondary school for it; kids would just laugh in my face, parents would question me as to the reason (which I think I found more painful).I didn't understand why I had to have it short when it upset me so much. Every time I asked, I was told it was good for me.

I understand how powerful gender conformity is, because unlike many who are forced to conform, I was forced to be non-conformist in the years when I was forming my gender identity. It was a deeply traumatising experience and a worrying choice made repeatedly on behalf of my mum.

I started saying I wanted to have long hair when I first went to school. I was a bold child, who didn’t understand why adults spoke down to me, and often wanted to talk about what things were made of or why things had been changed from how they were before. I was taught (by the same people who decided to keep my hair short) that I could ask anything and should try anything. This extended to climbing trees, learning to cook with the chefs in the kitchens of the restaurants my parent ran, and asking difficult questions about what I’d seen or heard on TV. But the hair thing was off limits - for whatever reason, it had to be kept short.

My sister was born when I was 6 and from very early on, she was allowed to grow her hair. It wasn’t even a decision - it was just long enough to put in a ponytail from the age of about 3. I played with it incessantly. In fact, she wanted it short, I think partly to stop me bothering her so much. By the time I was 10 I was having dreams that my hair was long, and if I could find a hairband to tie it up with before I woke up, it would be long when I did. I never could. I’d wake up crying.

We most often had a mobile hairdresser, from whom I would hide. I often locked myself in the bathroom when she was coming, and if I was forced to come out (I was a pretty well behaved kid) I would sit in the dining room chair and sob whilst she cut my hair, then immediately run back upstairs and re-lock myself in the bathroom. It was a horrible catch 22 as it was the only room in the house with a lockable door, but also the one with the most mirrors. Looking back, I don’t know why either she or my mum persisted, and what they thought they were achieving.

Reading in recent years about the growing community of people who have come out as gender non-conformist, non-binary or trans, I feel like our experiences must be somewhat aligned. It was painful for me to hear adults say things like “the little boy who…” referring to me, and learning that boys laughed if anyone asked if they fancied me - not because I wasn’t good looking, only because I ‘barely’ registered as a girl.

Understanding how you form your idea of who you are is so central to these years of your life. Being made to behave or look a way that feels wrong is damaging.

Children have a sense of self from much earlier than I think most people realise. I was asking questions that adults hadn’t ever considered before I went to school, and I wanted a proper answer. The idea that you can ‘mould’ a child is ridiculous to me - you can stimulate them, provide them with the chance to learn about strange, obscure and unusual things, but they will be choosing for themselves long before you realise. Dialogue with your children, or those you regularly interact with is crucial - learning is a collaborative process. That includes learning who they are.

Watching Shiloh Jolie-Pitt grow up into a free spirited and self-expressive young person, who is both supported by the family and endlessly speculated about in the media is a perfect example. The press have taken that awful middle ground between knowing they can’t come out with overt shock or judgement (this is a child, whose parents pay a large proportion of their wages), whilst reporting the same story over and over. I admire Shiloh’s family for having that media-infuriating shoulder shrug attitude - the “and what” of media management. My belief that our society is no way near as liberal as we’d like to think is backed up by the head-scratching over “how to report” Shiloh.

Reading about MTV making decisions based on the fact that Gen Z don’t get humour based on race or gender, and that showing gay characters on TV shows doesn’t register with Gen Zers as notable is both good and overdue. I hope that a child growing up now wouldn’t be exposed to some of the bullying from peers I experienced for “looking [mildly] different”, and that at least in some places, parents wouldn’t ask awkward and demeaning questions from their own naive point of view. I know bullying is not a smaller problem for children growing up now, but I hope the trends MTV are responding to means that looking ‘like a girl/boy’ is no longer such a narrow category.

#hair #gender #gender conformity #gender identity #gendered society #growing up