• peopleproblems
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    15 hours ago

    Yeah that checks out. My Gen z girlfriend has said as much. She’s into women and “men who are at least old enough to remember 9/11 clearly.”

    The Gen Z men she has dated were “rude, cruel, and more interested in controlling me(her).”

    • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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      12 hours ago

      If she was dating millennial men when millennials were in their 20s she’d probably complain about PUA techniques being used against her.

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      14 hours ago

      That’s almost a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border (for the US at least). Usually remembering 9/11 means you’re more on the Millennial side. Though generations are fuzzy and ill-defined.

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          12 hours ago

          I disagree, that puts the last few years of Millennials into Gen Z though. That puts me into Gen Z and I’m a few years before the cutoff.

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              5 hours ago

              I was 5 when Pokemon came to the US, so I don’t think it’s fair to say I remember a world before Pokemon. I have memories from before 5 sure, but nothing that counts as knowing what the world was like. And that’s not even counting hearing about Pokemon from my Japanese cousins before it came here.

              I also don’t think it’s fair to say I can’t understand how amazing Pokemon are when those games dominated my whole childhood.

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          11 hours ago

          I would like to go back to a world without Pokemon.

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      13 hours ago

      The difference in frequency of these sexist attitudes in gen z men compared with millennials was at most 5%. I believe your girlfriend’s experience but I don’t think it has much relevance to this study. Although generations are a terrible way to categorize data. I wish they weren’t used in research like this. I also wish they gave more country-specific data in this particular study.