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Women over 50 see sexual harassment very differently to millennials

sudshr47 December 1, 2017

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Somewhere between the main course and dessert at a dinner party, I became aware of a colossal chasm in the way my generation and my parents’ generation perceive sexual harassment. It was during a recent trip to my parents’ home in rural Warwickshire, England, that I found myself embroiled in conversations with family friends and neighbours about sexual harassment and sexual correctness with women over the age of 50. 

I learned that some women over the age of 50 feel that, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, we are in danger of entering an era of extreme sexual correctness, where men will feel under constant scrutiny when interacting with female counterparts. And, though I’d read—and rolled my eyes—at headlines about sexual harassment allegations going “too far”, this was the first time I’d heard a view like this uttered aloud IRL. Needless to say, I did not share their views.  Read more…

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Hey, millennials of London you can still eat sandwiches if you want

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

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Go after people’s sandwiches and you’d better prepare for war.

For a long time now millennials have come under fire for their spending habits. Culprits such as coffee and smashed avocado — previously held up as symptoms of millennial overspending — can now be joined by an even more innocuous evil… sandwiches.

‘Millennials must stop buying sandwiches to afford a house’ https://t.co/LQnZuw2be6

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) November 14, 2017

The Evening Standard reported calculations from estate agents Strutt & Parker, basically advising millennials to give up luxuries like nights out and sandwiches so they could save up for a deposit rather than being part of “generation rent”. Read more…

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Twitter’s 280 character limit is exactly what tweets didn’t need

sudshr47 November 7, 2017

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No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

I cannot put it in 280 characters more plainly than that.

Giving every single Twitter user 280 characters to blather on is a big mistake, and like many, I blame millennials for this change.

Twitter was created by Gen X-er Jack Dorsey, who’s actually about to celebrate his 41st birthday. As the children of Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers typically still appreciate something about scarcity and compromise. Dorsey exemplified this by building Twitter on the incredibly limited backbone of SMS and figured out how to make it work within the 160-character limit, which is how we ended up with that precious 140 characters. Then Twitter turned each tweet into a virtual Matryoshka doll, nesting more and more stuff — photos, Twitter handles, and video — inside the same 140-character space. It was quite a trick. Read more…

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