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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine involves literal rudeness.

A little self-entitled Gen Z girl pushed past my elderly father in a line to catch up with some friends. Didn't say excuse me or anything. Just literally pushed him aside. My father started to tell her off and she got combative. So I stepped in and told her to move along. She persists to argue so I repeated just move along. Finally, I told her to hush her mouth. She seemed shocked.  She looked at me and asked, "How old are you?"  (I'm 53). And then very seriously declared, "It's amazing that I'm only 25 and so much more mature than you."

Gen Z really is an obnoxious lot lacking in basic manners. But I've noticed a lot of ageism from them.  It's wild.

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I'm not sure it's age-ism but there is a lot of self-I don't know what the right term is bit it comes off as-protection.
I think a lot of it is the result of self-empowerment culture mixed in with the omnipresence of social media. One does not have to appease - which can manifest as being nice and pleasant. The emphasis is on how life should work and accommodate YOU (the id, the subject). It's a ramification of identity politics - you have to be you and don't suffer anybody else's microagressions. If you look a ads directed at that age group, no one is smiling. Instead, they all look like they are either judging you or daring you to judge them. It's a sort of passive confrontation. Apple's entire campaign for the past decade which targets that demographic is how you can't be you without their product that is presented as making you more YOU with their i-this and i-that gadgets. There's been a societal shift inward at mining one's own self actualization.
I conjecture that the social media aspect makes anything NOT on their social media radar non-existent and inconsequential to their lives which makes their own subjectivity even more grandiose.[/quote]

I also have to add, I can't imagine dating anyone of those unsmiling sullen looking people in the ads. They seem too self-absorbed to be capable of a relationship or even having a family. The people on the NYC Bumble ad look bothered and annoyed. [/quote]

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