JustPearlyThings - October 11, 2023


Traditional Woman DESTROYS Gen Z


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

165.25616

Word Count

729

Sentence Count

55

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

The problem with Gen Z is that they are so easily offended that they need a trigger warning on everything. What are we actually doing to make them more emotionally fit? And what are we doing to prepare them for the real world?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The next topic on today's agenda is the problem with Gen Z.
00:00:06.720 The problem with Gen Z. I'm Gen Z. I'm so offended.
00:00:11.140 No, I'm not offended. There are many, many problems with my generation today
00:00:15.120 and we need to talk about them. We need to not be offended by them.
00:00:18.840 We need to recognize what they are so that we can be better
00:00:22.380 and hopefully not end up on a complete path to destruction.
00:00:27.800 So, let's see what this video has in store for us.
00:00:32.640 80s weren't perfect, but I'll tell you what they didn't have.
00:00:35.680 There were no safe spaces.
00:00:39.960 There were no trigger warnings.
00:00:43.200 And there were no fucking peanut allergies.
00:00:47.260 Why? Because for thousands of years, the only people who could have children
00:00:52.340 were ones who could hunt for food, build shelter, and fight saber-toothed tigers.
00:00:58.980 Now, there are people having kids who can't eat wheat.
00:01:05.060 But Christina, it's an allergy. You don't know.
00:01:10.260 Well, I do know. I ain't fucking a guy that's scared of toast.
00:01:13.580 I was in stitches when I first saw this video.
00:01:19.940 I think it's absolutely great.
00:01:21.180 Look, I wasn't around in the 80s, so I have no idea what it was actually like
00:01:25.000 from personal experience.
00:01:26.360 But from what I've heard from people who were around in the 80s,
00:01:29.500 look, it just seemed like a much easier time.
00:01:32.500 The general consensus, which is to just be a bit soft
00:01:36.620 and that it's great to be soft,
00:01:39.680 we've embraced the weakness of people in today's society.
00:01:44.860 Not only have we embraced it, but we reinforce it.
00:01:48.040 You know, when someone puts a trigger warning on a video,
00:01:52.280 for some reason that's seemingly normal now.
00:01:56.400 I don't think it's the world's responsibility
00:01:59.880 to have to adhere to your triggers.
00:02:03.980 I think your triggers are your responsibility.
00:02:06.620 And it's up to you to be able to filter out
00:02:10.020 what you can and can't take.
00:02:12.140 Also, how are we going to move forward
00:02:14.340 if we have to put trigger warnings on everything?
00:02:16.540 If we've got these people that are so easily upset
00:02:20.480 and hurt and offended that they need a trigger warning on things,
00:02:25.700 what is that actually doing?
00:02:27.860 That's wrapping them in cotton wool.
00:02:29.580 That's not exposing them to the real world.
00:02:31.860 That's putting them in a position
00:02:33.860 where they're never going to be able to handle anything
00:02:35.980 because they're so protected from everything.
00:02:38.760 Whereas if you got rid of all the trigger warnings on things
00:02:41.560 and you just let people experience the world as it is,
00:02:45.100 chances are a lot of them would grow a pair.
00:02:48.340 A lot of them would get over it,
00:02:50.580 just as people have done for hundreds of thousands of years before.
00:02:53.880 What scares me is the fact that one day my generation,
00:02:58.460 the people now who are, what, 18 to 25,
00:03:01.300 are not going to be 18 to 25.
00:03:03.440 They're going to be in their 30s, 40s, 50s.
00:03:06.780 And they're going to be the people who are leading the world.
00:03:10.000 You know, one day someone who's in my generation
00:03:11.980 could be the next prime minister,
00:03:13.680 could be the next president.
00:03:15.260 These people are going to be on the board of directors.
00:03:17.580 These people are going to be in the UN
00:03:20.160 and all of the other foundations
00:03:23.840 that are concerning at the moment anyway.
00:03:28.260 But imagine when people of my generation
00:03:30.020 are in those positions of power.
00:03:31.560 I think we ought to be very, very afraid
00:03:36.660 of what that's going to look like
00:03:37.900 because I can't even imagine
00:03:39.600 what kind of mess that's going to be.
00:03:42.640 We need to get a grip.
00:03:44.880 We need to be stronger.
00:03:47.080 We need to be better.
00:03:48.640 We need to stop covering ourselves in cotton wool
00:03:51.060 and thinking it's okay to be weak.
00:03:53.000 It's not okay to be weak.
00:03:54.920 The real world is harsh.
00:03:56.780 The real world is going to throw things at you.
00:03:58.800 You've got to learn to roll with the punches.
00:04:00.320 Otherwise, you won't survive.
00:04:02.980 I'm afraid it may not seem like it
00:04:04.900 in today's day and age
00:04:05.940 with everything that's so easy,
00:04:07.740 but it really is survival of the fittest
00:04:09.700 and you've got to be the fittest.
00:04:12.040 And today, unfortunately,
00:04:14.800 that is being emotionally fit.
00:04:16.860 You've got to be able to take things
00:04:19.440 and, you know, you've got to strive for better.
00:04:23.260 You've got to strive for gold.