The average millennial makes less than the average baby boomer did in 1975

[HVC]

Young people suck

That is why you have spent so much of your life chasing after them.

It's right there in his post

[CountDeMoney]

Ed watches all his Girls Gone Wild videos backwards, so it looks like the girls learn a valuable lesson.






[spoiler]Thank you, Dave Atell.[/spoiler]

[Ed Anger]

Ed watches all his Girls Gone Wild videos backwards, so it looks like the girls learn a valuable lesson.






[spoiler]Thank you, Dave Atell.[/spoiler]

Yeah. 

[Grey Fox]

The Boomers can be blamed for a lot of things but they GenXers are responsible for universal participation trophies.

And you don't suffer from self esteem issues, right?  So you're welcome. 



When I was in college (in the early 90s) there was some study out that American children were considerably more likely than their Japanese counterparts to say that they were "Good at math" while, of course, the Japanese scored much higher on standardized tests.  So I think that American over-inflated sense of self-worth is much older than participation trophies.

Indeed, my parents are boomers. 

[Valmy]

The Japanese economy then collapsed and was then weighed down by government policies at odds with reality. I guess self esteem > standardized test scores.

[grumbler]

The Japanese economy then collapsed and was then weighed down by government policies at odds with reality. I guess self esteem > standardized test scores.

Comparing shame-based cultures with pride-base cultures is going to give these subjective results no matter what is objectively true.

[Savonarola]

The Japanese economy then collapsed and was then weighed down by government policies at odds with reality. I guess self esteem > standardized test scores.

Take that nerds!  Hubris FTW!

[Valmy]

False confidence can take you far Sav. Look at our President. But then Abe is sort buffoonish as well but I think we have taken it to a whole new level.

[Savonarola]

False confidence can take you far Sav. Look at our President. But then Abe is sort buffoonish as well but I think we have taken it to a whole new level.

Trump may have benefited from getting participation trophies and being told that "Everyone is a winner."  He seems to believe that everyone else is a loser and behaves accordingly.  Once again the Gen-Xers were right all along.



Thinking it over, though, in the light of the Trump presidency, the problem might be the opposite of participation trophies.  There have been cases of parents fighting at little league games and Geno Auriemma (head coach of UConn's women's basketball) just had a long complaint about selfish student athletes.  That could be just a few isolated examples, and a coach longing for the good old days; if not, though it would point to what's being taught is the opposite message of what youth athletics is supposed to teach.  Rather than the value of sportsmanship and teamwork, winning takes precedence over everything and the individual accomplishment is all that matters.

[CountDeMoney]

Go search for the 60 Minutes piece on how the latest jock parent craze has been holding their kids back from entering Kindergarten or 1st grade in order to give them an athletic advantage over classmates once they hit puberty a year earlier. 

Parents have been out of the "participation trophy" biz for a while.  But Dumbfuckistanis like to perpetuate it, all part of the "Welfare Queen" theme.

[Ed Anger]

Go search for the 60 Minutes piece on how the latest jock parent craze has been holding their kids back from entering Kindergarten or 1st grade in order to give them an athletic advantage over classmates once they hit puberty a year earlier. 

Parents have been out of the "participation trophy" biz for a while.  But Dumbfuckistanis like to perpetuate it, all part of the "Welfare Queen" theme.

Now that is hilarious. Also explains those freakish 6'5 freshman linemen in hi school football.

[CountDeMoney]

Now that is hilarious. Also explains those freakish 6'5 freshman linemen in hi school football.

It's a real thing, especially in the more affluent classes.  My brother-in-law's brother did it.  Total jockhead.  I hope they go all Marinovich on him.

Here it is:  "Redshirting"
https://youtu.be/HtEsw49o4RY

Bigger, stronger, faster: How redshirting is changing H.S. sports
http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/09/how_redshirting_is_changing_hs_sports.html


The soccercunt in the first minutes of the 60 Minutes piece just makes you want to pass out more abortions.

[Ed Anger]

I could only take 3 minutes of that. 

Christ.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, for all the bitching and moaning about "participation trophies" and all that other touchy-feely bullshit, that fucking generation has come and gone for a while now, just used as code for "whaaa darkies got free shit and I didn't" by derdogwhistlers. 
Now parenting is all knife fights and the pool cue scene from The Dark Knight. TRYOUTS

[Ed Anger]

Girls soccer games are blood sports. Not a joke. The blood starts in the stands.