If he hates Millennials now, why didn't he hate 90s Gen X youth?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jerry Seinfeld
EightiesKid — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 12:38 PM)
The conversation between his daughter and his wife seemed to be what sparked all of this hostility towards today's generation, so much to where he refuses to play colleges. His wife mentioned that she might want to hang out with boys in the city in a couple more years, to which she replied "That's sexist." If she had just said something to the effect of that's not her style or she doesn't really care about dating I wonder if Jerry would've felt differently, or maybe that was just the tip of the iceberg?
B*tching about "PC Culture" is like Faux News 101! Everyone gets older, but it's like he went from an easygoing, youthful single guy to a conservative, grumpy old man in the last 20 years. Quite sad to see, as I used to really like him and
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(I still am a fan of the show, and would rather remember him that way).
Given that he was already 40ish in the 90s, I'm sure he had differences with the youth of that time too, but he didn't seem to hate on them the way he's now hating on 2010s youth. The fact that he is older now and has a family and isn't really a part of modern pop culture might all play a part, but I feel like it runs deeper than that. Not just with him, but overall.
Sure, adults complaining about the modern youth is nothing new, but it seems more pervasive now than ever. In prior generations it seemed to fade off once they were in their early 20s at oldest. I noticed in the 90s it was always specifically "teenagers" or "kids" that people complained about, now it's "Millennials" or "20somethings". Its like the age ceiling has been raised, and anyone born after 1986=87 or so is still lumped in with teenagers and not really respected as being an adult, despite the older Millennials pushing 30 now.