GENERATION WUSS: WHY THE LATEST GROUP OF MILLENNIALS ARE SO UNPREPARED FOR MODERN LIFE.

In a recent interview with Bret Easton Ellis, the author described today's youth as seriously hyper-sensitive over everything and seriously out of touch with anything that matters. While this certainly does not apply to every youth today (I know several who do not fit this stereotype) it is a stereotype that is right more often than not. He dubbed them Generation Wuss, which I think is very apt.


Today's children have been brought up to think they all special and unique and everyone should get everything they deserve. They have been given participation awards so no one feels left out. They have removed sports, and even recess, in some schools because of the possibility of injury, no matter how remote. And then we wonder why kids are so freaking fat. The state has driven out all critical thought and reasoning and replaced it with standardized testing that is making them incapable of rational thought. And they cry and whine when things don't go their way, no matter how pointless and small it seems to the rest of us.

Let's start with cyber bullying, which has led some of the overly sensitive to kill themselves. Now bullying is wrong in any form, but in my day, name calling was not an excuse to hang yourself from the rafters. We used to get physically beaten, like I did on a daily basis in Junior High. Then I learned martial arts and that stopped quick when I beat a former bully so bad he had to go the hospital. I also had to go to remove a lodged tooth from his mouth embedded in my knuckle. I still have the scar to prove it. Guess what? I was never bullied again.


But today's youth are so coddled that when someone calls them a name they don't like, they crumble. Good luck in the rat race where things can be much, much worse and which these cry babies will not have the wherewithal to get ahead without bursting into tears.

There was recent case of two Texas Southern University of Law students who sued the school for getting a D minus which caused them "emotional issues." They argued that they wrote papers that should have been graded better, but because the teacher didn't agree with their positions, he gave them a crappy grade. Welcome to the real world where that is exactly what happens everywhere at all times. I had the same problems in school, especially from a teacher going through a bitter divorce who started failing all her male students. I dropped her class and the next semester she left on an "extended sabbatical." She never returned. The case was thrown out by the way.

And then there is Jonathan Martin, the guy who quit the Dolphins because Richie Incognito was bullying him. WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA! You're a grown man for god's sake on a football team and you couldn't stand up for yourself. I'm half his size and crippled and I wouldn't have taken Incognito's nonsense for two seconds. If someone says "Hey, you're spending $30,000 for the team to party," my response would have been, "Go to hell." If they then went on to call me racist or hurtful terms, I'd give it right back to them. And if he threw a punch, I'd lay him out. Instead, Martin fled the team, crying about how he couldn't take it anymore. That is the very definition of the word WUSS. How hard is it to stand up for yourself?


The ultimate example was Occupy Wall Street, a moment I thought today's youth would stand up to the powers that be and instead folded like a bed sheet. Across the planet, young people in Egypt, Thailand, Turkey and the Ukraine, to name just a few, have stood up to the powerful and dared them to kill them. Our youths, when faced with the police throwing them out of placed like Zuccotti Park, left and never returned. Not only did they not fight back, they gave up. WTF? This is ultimate in being a wuss when faced with the chance to change things and put your life on the line, like I do writing about things that could make me dead quick, these pussies scurry like rats back into their parents basement for pot and video games. Gag!

Some of today's youth are pissed that Ellis is calling them out but it's hard to argue with the fact that today's youth are massively unprepared for modern society, scream about things like the name The Washington Redskins being so very hurtful and akin to the word nigger, which it isn't, seem to have an almost pathological avoidance of any news that doesn't directly affect them and are so narcissistic that they have to selfie and Facebook everything they do no matter how trivial. We are raising a group of kids that are falling further and further behind in the world and who lack even the most basic forms of respect, dignity or intelligence. More than half of today's kids get into college somehow and then figure out they can barely write or read. People like Jordan Davis got shot because they lacked anything resembling common sense which is not to aggravate anyone you don't know, as you have no idea their mental state or if they are armed. Davis acted like a dick and died because of it. He didn't deserve to get shot but he certainly asked for it. Same goes for the knockout game which would have never happened in my days as we were smart enough to not attack random people who may kill you for acting stupid.


Generation Wuss is all too true unfortunately, no matter how much today's youth may whine otherwise. The point of this is that any youth out there has the ability to change this. Start fighting for your rights. Stop accepting failure and do something about it which doesn't require acting like a spoiled brat. And for the love of God, stop being so sensitive to every name you get called. Trust me, a beating is much worse than words. The world is dying and only the young today can stop it. That has to be the most depressing sentence I have ever written. Please prove me wrong and start standing up for yourself. The lives of everyone you know depends on it.