Here's an idea, ladies. Stop fighing to help lead one of the world's oldest kleptocracies and start fighting to destroy it.

Color me completely not surprised. I am Exhibit A, formerly devout good Catholic girl, grew up in the Church and at one point in my life found spiritual comfort in the community and traditions....until I grew up, went to college, read up on feminism, and realized that the nagging feeling of being “lesser” was not only…

Gen X does not exist.  Ask any millennial or boomer.

State funding of education hasn’t been dismantled and disposed of. There’s billions of dollars in government funding for higher education. It’s an expensive and convoluted system in a lot of instances for sure. It’s inarguably more expensive now than it’s ever been, so there’s that.

Somehow Millenials rehash every problem that faced Gen-Xers and made it all about them--and they use our memories. Office Space was ours. Baby Boomers fucked us over. Our world was depressed economically too. Geez.

Pieces of flair. TPS reports. Where’s my stapler? Yeah, I’m going to need you to come in on Saturday.

While pretty much anyone who has worked in an office can relate to Office Space, the 1999 cult classic has a particular resonance with people my age.

I’m sorry, but Office Space is a Gen X movie. It’s not a comedy, it’s a documentary about what we all found when we graduated and went to work for the Boomers in middle management.

This is absolutely a Gen X movie. When it came out “millennial” meant whatever you were thinking of doing for Y2K.

I’m glad someone said it. But again, I’ve given up being surprised that no one remembers we exist. “I was 12" yes I’m sure this had a profound impact on you, unlike 25 year old me who was actually working a office job in tech. 

I grew up in suburban Texas. When I was 18 I had my first job. It was on the northwest corner of an intersection. There was a Burger King on the southeast corner of that same intersection. I drove to that Burger King 3 times in the first month before I realized I could walk there during my lunch hour.

I think you meant “Gen X”. But that’s ok, we’re used to being invisible. 

I could go on all day about this movie. Seeing it in that empty theater when I was still in high school. How it inspired my father to retire from his “Lumbergh” role at a large corporation and go into the nonprofit world. The paper-thin walls at the “Morningwood” apartment complex. 

“Well, you don’t need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he’s broke, don’t do shit.” 

Yup. In the ‘70s, Jessica McClintock built a small empire with Gunne Sax.  Every girl at prom in 1976  wore a prairie-style dress, I think.

I loved those books as a kid and I credit them with leading me to a career in museums but man do they ever showcase the need to teach critical thinking as soon as kids start reading. It wasn’t until I was in university and emeshed in history and anthropology programs that focussed on real critical thought that I…

Seems like the same kind of guy who calls taking care of his own kids “babysitting.”

I feel really bad for women who get played like this. It makes me so angry knowing certain men are totally cool with doing nothing to help their wives/partners take care of the children or clean house. One of my friends told me that her husband drops their children off with his mother or her mother if he has to take…

While reading the article and the comments, I couldn’t help but think: How much you wanna bet the guys who say children do better with a mother and a father are the sort of guys who think child care is the purview of the mother?

I can’t imagine having a baby, being sleep deprived covered in puke in shit, then watch my husband joke about failing at trying to keep our child alive.