Also to some of the judgeyness of the article, we decided in the 80s people could look how the fuck they want. In a very straight and strangley 50s obsessed culture (due to a Levi ad) in backwater Dorset we were the weirdos and we embraced all weirdos. I know millenials have invented new terminologies for the sort of people we saw in alternative clubs in Bournemouth but hadn't a collective name for, and that these new collective names wind some people up, including some of the LGBTQetc people themselves. I keep things simple. I would struggle with pronouns but if you want to be Susan you are Susan.
"Woke" also, as the article says has been on a journey as language does by its nature. (read linguist Noam Chomsky)
Where I get this title if not the article itself was that when I went to Hyde Park for 420 with my Coronabongs as we were still in semi lockdown, my first impression of GenZ enne mass I totally understood that they were a backlash against some of the angst of "woke millennials". It wasn't because anything happened in particular either. Just that they instantly seemed much more like us GenXers, and I knew that would be an issue. This was a very stark realisation in my weed addled mind.
I came across a meme on this subject from a 50s TV series (maybe the Munsters?) with an older lady pouring wine for a kid with the lady memed as Gen X the kid as Gen Z and disapproving Millenials of some description? (I found it, below) And that is where I will leave this one to you to read the article yourself and tell me what u think?
