Way to move the goalposts!

I don’t know, she may have understood craft really well, but it’s weird to insist that people are wrong about their enjoyment of something being compromised.

It’s so weird to see arguments that people should be shackled to decisions they made as teenagers because they made choices we consider frivolous or just weren’t able to accurately predict future job markets. 

You're right. I saw one person gushing about hoping she grows up to be an activist. She shouldn't have to be! We should make sure she doesn't have to do that, rather than getting warm fuzzies from the idea that this will define her life forever. 

I found it odd, too. Especially the idea that you can't have guests over for dinner, or that advice to do so was for the Great Unwashed. 

I observed that when I taught for a summer reading program a few years back. About a third of the families missed at least one or two of the five sessions because they’d already scheduled family vacations. It baffled me that they’d shell out for the course, knowing they were going to miss a huge chunk of it. But after …

I wonder if the fear essentially skipped a generation, and the kids on the shortest leash are the ones whose parents grew up in that climate-- the first gen Xers, whose kids are the youngest and most monitored millennials. 

She did try. Her ability to perform was compromised, so even if she’d continued it's not likely that they would have gotten gold anyway. At least this way the team has their silver and she's still alive and in good health.

And even if these jobs were mostly staffed by people who are young and (supposedly) don't need the money, they still deserve equal pay for equal work. 

God forbid we care about things that don't directly affect us.