Why are Gen Zers such miserable, humorless prudes?

It's the result of helicopter parenting.

They spend all day online accusing each other of moral crimes. I saw Goody Proctor drinking Starbucks! She supports genocide!

Prenatal Internet Exposure.

I'm a millennial who, in retrospect, came of age during a hideously, grotesquely, pornified era that literally made superstars out of (consensually, or nonconsensually) released sextapes (Paris, Kim K., et al.).

I'm not applauding their attitude, but at the same time, I don't blame them for it, either.

"Sex-positive" has become lingo for "the most competitively depraved, cynical attitude towards human sexuality imaginable."

I hope they all have children who make Patsy and a look like girl scouts.

They are so lame.

R1 This. These are people who weren’t allowed to go outside alone.

The Chapell Roan fans are currently lecturing us about how great Reagan was to gay people. Dear gawd.

My brother has three of them - two well into their 20s. They show no interest in leaving home - ever!

It's so cute to watch all you grandpas not understand that there are different ways to enjoy your life and to conduct your life.

They like to dance on the tiktoks

R10 the point is the enjoyment seems to be rather lacking. Prove me wrong.

Well, there are ways to enjoy life r10, but puritanism never has been and never will be one of them. The whole point of puritanism is to never enjoy life, only to endure it.

Who in the fuck are you to label what they're doing as puritanism? What a bunch of projecting, projectile nonsense.

Go fuck someone r14. Also have a damn drink and shut the fuck up, you silly twat.

Just take the L, you whiny prick.

Somehow, this may be the set of attitudes needed in a world of diminishing returns, a world with no social contract. People around them are giving up or being pushed out of society because they fell behind or couldn’t buy a house. AI and automation are driving uncertainty and they’re trying to find individuality and meaning in a commoditized global economy. Life will suck for a lot of people in the coming years, and maybe being prudish helps some of them feel more in control of their future.

Boy. R16 is really doing a lot to dispel the humorless label.

Does anybody else notice that they're extremely defensive and can't handle any criticism? But they sure are the first to criticize everyone else.

When a platonic touch on the shoulder is considered tantamount to a sexual assault, it takes a while to negotiate consent.

They're boring but I'm looking forward to their kids (well the few of them that aren't too afraid of sex and touching enough to eventually get laid) rebelling against them and start slutting and drinking up a storm and enjoying the good life like their grandparents did.

[quote]Anti-sex. Anti-drinking. They don't go out. They have zero sex lives. What gives?

Its the legalization of weed, Rose.

Why go out when I can live in mom's basement until I'm 60?

There's got to be a subset of Gen Zers who don't fit OP's mold, right? Never to late to enjoy life.

I was going to watch the Discovery+ documentary on the Menendez brothers, only to discover it’s a bunch Gen Zers claiming they’re innocent. Good lord they’re a stupid bunch. Gullible and stupid.

Is that pronoun nonsense slowly dying off? I'd imagine it makes it even harder to communicate. It's easier to ignore everybody and keep your eyes glued to your cell phone.

OP gets no interest as he jiggles around the locker room naked and thinks that means Gen Z aren't fucking. No, they just don't want to fuck you.

R26 except they really aren't having sex.

They dont want to see it either

They're prudes because sex and partying requires interaction with other humans. They only interact with a QR code because it doesn't make them anxious.

I worry that these are the people that'll have to change my diaper when I'm 90. 😧

Fetal iPhone Syndrome

To be fair, you do avoid all possible conflict when you avoid interaction.

r27 Thanks for showing up what an idiot you are

[quote]one in four Gen Zers (anyone born between 1997 and 2012) have never engaged in partnered sex

Meaning 75% - the overwhelming majority - have. And yet, with the complete lack of logic we've come to expect from boomers, you declare the minority applies to the entire generation.

Your link also doesn't provide any comparison to the stats for other generations. And this is all based on a sample size of 2000, done for a sex toy company, via an online poll. In other words, absolute statistical garbage.

But hey, it gives boomers another ragebait way to whine about young people. Of course, they then try to avoid explaining why they're so interested in the sex lives of people decades younger than they are.

Oh and

[quote]anyone born between 1997 and 2012

Take a think about those dates and try and work out why a good portion of them aren't fucking yet.

R32 Not a boomer lol. Now go cry and invent a new gender to feel better if you need to.

They're also TERRIFIED of an unannounced phone conversation!

How DARE you call them!

OP, Boomers and Gen Xers vote for racist, nativist, and anti-LGBT politicians like Donald Trump

Gen Z and millennials will vote to protect LGBT rights. Older people with side with GOP hatemongers

Of course boomers invented gay rights, really, but yes, these days it probably is more common among the young than the old.

It’s comfortable in the arms of mother.

I don’t fault them. They were brought into and grew up into a pretty fucked up and historically crazy world.

Breaking News *It's always been a crazy fucked up world*

I believe it's a combination of isolation, lack of sense of community or connectedness while simultaneously always being virtually connected to get bombarded with constant critique, making them neurotic messes who are also either: homeschooled with faux-education, or are familiar with and used to active shooter drills. In addition to typically having parents who are not trying to be parents, but friends, while bulldozing obstacles out of their way, (sounds good, but it reiterates their feeling of inadequacy).

Being young today sucks.

[quote]The Chapell Roan fans are currently lecturing us about how great Reagan was to gay people.

Where? I must see this.

To R30-Fetal iPhone syndrome-I'm stealing that!

Porn made sex unsexy.

They live their lives on cell phones.

I see a lot of blankness, humorlessness. And a strange bent toward watching others like a hawk: spying, tattling and ostracizing. As if the way to get ahead in life is cancelling others. They will never, EVER help you or do a favor.

And they somehow think their youth is currency. When they just waste it staring into a screen anyway.

OP exposed himself to a 19 year old, and the truth fairy then came knocking

R47 Oh look, another Gen Z trope. Everybody wants to sexually assault them. Oh wait, excuse me. SA. They're too triggered to type it all out.

r48 Why do you care so much if Gen Z are fucking or not, then?

R49 Gen Z needs to get a life before they think they can come for older generations.

Gen Z is also aging like shit.

Why are Gen Zers such miserable, humorless prudes?

Anti-sex. Anti-drinking. They don't go out. They have zero sex lives. What gives?

Hell they might as well be you OP.

[quote]Take a think about those dates and try and work out why a good portion of them aren't fucking yet.

It was not at all unusual in the past few generations for some teenagers to be sexually active at the age of 13 or 14 (and not just in Appalachia).

r50 Was that your attempt at a comeback? Probably best to get your carer to put you to sleep. Ideally in the animal sense.

r52 Expert on that, are you?

Poor Gen Z. They cant handle any criticism at all without being defensive or melting down.

Isn't it too bad for them that they have another 10 years of this to look forward to?

I hope they enjoy entry level jobs and minimum wage in the meantime.

r54 An even weaker attempt at a comeback than before. Maybe DL isn't the place for you.

This wasn't witty, compelling, or cute the thousandth time we did this, but I guess people who are bitter about aging can't help themselves.

Personally, I'm just glad the kids aren't dying of AIDS much anymore so they can annoy the shit out of us. They're far better than a lot of you abusive, repetitive, intellectually lazy assholes who forget what a fucking privilege it is for us to grow old.

R57 who the hell are you to be calling anybody else an asshole? You sound like a real cunt yourself.

Are there any Gen Z-ers actually here? Somehow I doubt it lol.

I doubt it, R59. It's probably their parents fighting their battles for them. As usual.

So this thread has become a demented scrap-fest.

I shall block this thread, and I bid you all adieu.

R36 young men are the ones voting Trump more than any other demographics.

Sure, Jan. 🚫

R63 Here Jan

Does Gen Z know who Jan is?

r64 doesn't understand the difference between voting intention and actually having voted. Tell us what the results of an actual election show us.

R65 No, they'd call the offending party a pick-me.

I read this over the weekend:

I am ready for Generation Alpha to kick their asses to the curb.