git offa mah dang lawn, you pesky kids!

Dooced

Radar is currently running an angry screed against the Millenials, the generation that used to be named "Generation Y" until they whined about it sounding like an afterthought to Generation X. Kind of like how Generation X rejected their first moniker, the "Baby Buster" Generation, for sounding like an anticlimax to "Baby Boomers"--but Generation X wasn't something we chose for ourselves, it was an insulting perjorative that we embraced with a hearty "Well, fuck you very much!".

The Millenial Generation is painted here as self-involved, shallow, coddled consumerist whiners who think "think updating a spreadsheet while simultaneously posting to a Twitter account about the latest gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill".

Part of me remembers the accusations of "slacker" and "cynical" that were flung at us by the Baby Boomers and can't help but think that this feels like another spoke in the endlessly turning wheel of "This generation that came immediately after us is nowhere near as awesome as we are, and will bring down the fall of civilization!"

On the other hand, fuck the Millenials. We gave the world anticommercialism, Google, and Johnny Depp. What the hell is going to be The Millenials' legacy, motherfucking MySpace? The claim that anal isn't "real" sex?