You are not a "boomer" if you aren't in your twenties. You are not irrelevant if you aren't in your twenties. You don't go straight from being a kid to being "old". Stages of life are fluid and vary for each person, and should be savored to the fullest of your means to do so.

Stop letting internet memes about age, height, and general state of being have an actual impact on your mental health. They mean nothing, and don't benefit you in any material way.

edit 1 part 1: this is the worst comment section I've even seen in any Hexbear thread in all my years, except for @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net who is as always the best of us

edit 1 part 2: generationalism is also made up, don't let people put you into boxes and further don't put yourself into a box that someone else made up for you

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[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

sicko-wistful

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Stop letting internet memes about age, height...

Ok but I think it's more a matter of the reality that an older or shorter person's body has a material composition which is different than that of a younger or taller person's body.

Then, mainstream soyciety assigns such material traits abstract value based on its consumerist, hypercompetitive, capitalist, anti-human norms. And these sets of values, reinforced by the media and advertising, create a framework through which we see the world, kind of like propaganda.

This unfortunately can also translate to people being treated differently IRL due to these material traits, i.e. ageism in the workforce and the greater likelihood for shorter people to be bullied or dismissed.

I agree that internet memes can reinforce these attitudes, but first and foremost, they start as a reflection of such realities faced on the daily.

Therefore, although one can individually recognize the framework for what it is, and in certain situations (NEEThood, low competition high trust workplaces, for example) transcend it to an extent. What is really needed is a focus on more collective subjectivities in a movement away from capitalism on the community and national level, such that social value is not prescribed using the twisted anti human framework that is currently the default.

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