Pussies Galore. Jan 19th 2024.
No, it's not a link to a porn site or James Bond, and, it goes without saying that there are people who will inevitably slate me for using the term 'pussies' in the first place.
Then, guess what? you're exactly the people I'm writing about. So, be offended by all means, as that's wholly your choice - with 'choice' being the pertinent word. Just be clear that no one is pointing a gun at your head and forcing you to feel offended. You are exercising free will, not forced will. So take ownership and don't dump YOUR choice on me. I am not your baggage handler.
You see, I really don't know what else to call you that absolutely slam dunks the description in quite the same way - no offense, of course! However, you're not so bad as to be a cunt, because that implies something different, a well, sort of deliberately nasty person. Neither do I use it in a sexualised way, either, despite all this cisgender and misogyny bollocks that millennials and their progeny have taken claim to somehow own as if they have an unassailable right to it, such as their misguided sense of entitlement would have them believe.
I think of the term as having more to do with being emotionally incontinent, and possibly what West Indians might refer to as a "Bumbo Pussy Rassclaat," in an endearing, and jocular, rather than insulting way. In Ireland, my relatives would have, and probably still do use the term "eejit." No matter which way it's put, the fact remains that here in England the population of pussies is growing exponentially. Did you know, for instance, is all it takes for the Advertising Standards Authority to find in the favour of one, yes, one complainant and an advertisement can be pulled from public viewing. Let that sink in for a minute. I'll say again - just ONE person; out of a population of OVER 40 MILLION adults, by the way.
Companies nowadays have to be so ridiculously careful as to what they can, and can not say, because there will always be that one person out there who takes exception to what is stated or shown in either picture or video format. I'm not even able to watch something on Netflix without seeing a warning that there may be scenes of 'smoking.'
Wow, stop the world because someone's smoking a fag! Awww, you have to watch someone smoking, what a shame. Pussy! I guess it's assumed you have the mental age of five years old, and truth be known, probably not far off. Otherwise, why else for example, would a sign on a pushchair read "Remove child before folding"? While researching this type of lunacy I came across an advertisement for pepper spray that was marked - "Warning. Contents may irritate eyes." Basically, the thinking is to cater to the most stupid in life, rather than those with common sense, and intelligence. In other words, the mentally deficient.
To be not entirely sure, I struggle to think how and why the tide turned so dramatically when the millennials were born that in the history of humankind so far, an ineptitude gene suddenly appeared from nowhere, and from this bred the incompetent, which is where we are now with Gen X. A generation that struggles with life, whereas, say, thirty years ago and more to cater with stupidity would have been pretty much unheard of. Nowadays schools have to employ classroom assistants, learning support assistants, learning mentors, guidance counselors, school resource officers, and safeguarding officers. Even the term ADHD became a creation brought about by the millennials and has grown exponentially since, to where it's borderline industrial scale that's reached epidemic levels.
So, again I ask the question, how did it happen that society has become so broken, so emotionally screwed that it has created such problems that never existed before the millennials came about, while I accept that society faced all manner of challenges pre-millennial, it was nothing compared to the scale of the issues society faces now?
How is it that people would rather believe comfortable lies than uncomfortable truths? There has recently been a report from government level regarding children not wanting to attend school since the COVID pandemic, and yet, when television presenter Alison Hammond made a comment during her mid-morning show that children who are not in school at the time of broadcast as "naughty." To my astonishment, the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom said it had received 86 viewer complaints about the episode, with a majority of them about Hammond’s comments.
You see, I think I may have finally answered my own questions as to why, and when you consider it too, you may not want to agree with me but you will because it's far simpler than you'd think and logical. The millennials have not taught their progeny to be risk-averse. Instead, they've been taught to be scared of just about everything. Scared of being offended and challenged. Scared about the climate, scared of going to school, scared about what they may see, or hear. Scared of strangers, truths, and facts.
What they don't appear to be scared of in a lot of cases is running feral lives, disrespecting property and the police, theft, violence, and other criminal behaviour. This is broken Britain, with broken homes and broken families, broken schools, and broken neighbourhoods - and all led by broken government, most would say, I'm sure.
However, as mentioned in a previous blog post, while the government panders to Gen X things will only get worse. It's not just the government though, because parents no longer choose to parent, preferring to be 'friends' instead. Gone are the days of discipline, rules, and respect, although thankfully not entirely as there are a great many solid parent couples out there, as well as single parents and those who through the most difficult personal circumstances still show up those more fortunate in life with their parenting skills. So, I'm by no means decrying all parents.
Just millennial pussies.
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