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Millenials Get Their Feelings Hurt
The Biscuits baseball team, the Tampa Bay Rays’ Double-A affiliate, sponsored a clever satire of millennials last week. The team offered a Millennials Night with avocado burgers, napping and selfie stations, and participation ribbons for everyone who came. Naturally, the agenda caused a backlash, with coverage on Twitter and several news outlets.
Mind you, most of the team is manned with millenials, and they thought the theme was funny. The reaction by millennials in the area was mixed, to say the least, which only demonstrates the perception that they have no sense of humor. Melissa Warnke, vice president of the Public Relations Council of Alabama had this to say:
From a PR professional’s perspective, they’re kind of accomplishing what all of us want to accomplish, and that is people talking about your organization, not only here locally, but it’s got a lot of reach outside of our own community, outside of our state as well.
The millennials who reacted defensively are probably the same ones who don’t see the opportunities that the world offers to them and instead see themselves as victims. Even America’s favorite pastime doesn’t offer a safe space. In fact, it’s possible that the satire hit too close to home.
So I’m curious: if you’re a millennial, are you offended? If you’re not a millennial, what is your reaction? Maybe, just maybe, a few millennials will realize there is some truth to the stereotype presented. Then again, maybe not.
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I can think of at least one Boomer who allowed classified information to leak due to inadequate computer security. A whole bunch of people wanted to reward her by making her President.
Watching that … thing have a physical, mental, and emotional breakdown in public pretty much makes up for the fact that she will never take up residence in the aforementioned hotel. No; where she is concerned, I’m not a generous person.
A huge difference between my younger sisters, born 1991 to 1999, and the older kids, born 1978 to 1984, is that we remember a time before ubiquitous cell phones and the internet and they don’t and can’t fathom it. That’s a pretty major divide. Grouping us together ignores some of major things that differentiated our childhoods and teenage years.
I always wondered what “BC” stood for.
When my wife and I talk about our life together, we refer to BC as “Before Children”. Funny, we have very little memory of what married life was like BC . . .
Man, ain’t it the truth?
I reflexively refer to married couples who don’t have kids as “single.” And then I smile and remember what that was like….