The goal, as always, is to flatten the curve.  If people at higher risk for severe outcomes get the vaccine, they’re less likely to end up in the hospital or intubated in the ICU.  If we overload the hospitals, we’re sunk.  If you’re at higher risk, get the vaccine even if you think you’re in a higher risk category…

So far, that I’m aware of, it’s USA gymnastics, USA Taekowndo, and USA swimming. Now I know LeBron James and Serena Williams weren’t molested when they were on the Olympic team, but how many sports associations have to show you the true corruption of the whole USA Olympic system, before there is a systematic…

When it’s your turn, unapologetically get that shot. I have no patience for the stupid people who judge this. It does not matter why you’re eligible. You’re in line and we need to keep the line moving until everyone gets in.

Doctors give worse care to high BMI people. Get the shot because you will not be getting the best care if you get sick.

If you qualify as obese - I hate that word; let’s use... puppy. Everyone loves puppies. If you qualify as puppy, you are at higher risk of complications and death if you catch covid. That is a fact. You are just as valuable a person as someone who has a higher risk for any other reason. You should get the vaccine as…

And by Gen X he means. . . Camille Paglia, who is a Boomer? A boomer that other Boomers employed, gave editorial space to, and published? Like, it wasn’t Gen Xers making THOSE editorial decisions. We were shunted in low paying jobs and told to just suck it up if we couldn’t pay the rent with the pay, we weren’t the…

Orenstien’s book had been an annual reread of mine for about a decade now, though I’ll point out the AAUW’s Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America was reported in 98, not 94. Orenstein cites it repeatedly in her work. What also came out of this, and other works on self valuation and relational aggression in girls…

I’m sorry sir, the shake machine’s down.

This book made a huge impression on me as a teenager. I read it cover to cover several times, and it made me feel less alone (by highlighting the fact that many other teenage girls struggled with the same issues I did) and helped me learn some new coping strategies. I found the author much more sympathetic to teenage…

Wow! I was honestly a little shocked to see this on Jezebel because I read this book probably 3-4 times as a tween/teen (it was my mom’s) but haven’t heard it referenced much since then.

A lot of generational infighting going on in the comments. I think one thing we can all agree on is that Camille Paglia is trash. She’s almost 74, folks. Decades of throwing sand in people’s faces and whining about it in op-eds. Cynically adopting the language of new movements so she can undermine it from her ivory…

Gen-Xers are FINALLY chipping away at the stranglehold that Boomers have had

“Let’s reflect on how everything the anti-woke brigade says now was already said by galactic piece of shit Camille Paglia back in the 90's” could be a really interesting article. “Let’s reflect on how a bunch of shit said by Camille Paglia, who was born in 1947, proves that Gen X was anti-PC” is one of the weirdest…

I find it laughable that Gen X was supposed to solve the world’s problem when we’re also called the forgotten generation, the middle child, the latchkey generation raising ourselves while both parents worked. No one paid attention to us and still don’t. 

While we’re on the subject of failures, why don’t you eat some avocado toast or something that Millennials supposedly do instead of buying houses and diamonds? Are you really mad that instead of fixing the world up the way you want it to be, we spent our youth getting fucked up and piercing ourselves in strange…

Yeah, I couldn’t really follow the article. There doesn’t seem to be any coherent argument to it other than racism and sexism existed in the past, and because they still exist today, Gen X failed because of some cited articles apparently written by Boomers about Gen X?

This violates the rule that everyone younger than the Boomers has to gang up against the Boomers. No infighting!

Oh fuck off.
The failure of Gen-X in the 90's. GTFOH.
Who has been in power for the entirety of that time and is just now started to every so slightly lose some of that power? Fucking Boomers.
True Gen-Xers have always been about inclusion and societal fairness. The “whatever” generational label had nothing to do with…

Something to also note Gen X is a smaller amount of people than the Boomer Generation so despite their influence on things it was also the minority in comparison. The Boomers had greater representation and power within society. Truly the millennials who are all adults now could easily take over and sway society over…

Seems this is more an issue of the bigots co-opting language and twisting it than any particular failure of Gen X, to be honest. And I am certain that the same co-opting and turning into a slur happened before political correctness too. Seems that the bigots just don’t like it when we use language to describe their…