Sex.
The biggest aspect of a GenMe'ers life. Parents, school, hobbies, philosophies. Activities. Never before have things taken such a vast back-seat to sex.
In pre-teens.
Think I'm a nut job ? Lemme give you an excerpt of a new Celerity Blog:
Ashleigh, age 11, Single.
I logged into Myspace. Myspace, facebook, what have you. Doesn't matter. They all list "Marital Status" and there is no way to get rid of it. Kids, you, are being identified by "Marital Status" and it's not just retarded, it's killing you. With sex at a younger age, comes the urge for a more extreme (Competitive) sexual tendency. Why am I hearing about 16 year olds into bondage ? Sado-masochism (REALLY common) ? Vampire-inspired gore and violence-based sex ? These are sexual realms reserved normally for the over-sexxed crowd, those who have literally grown bored with "routine sex". Now the boredom is not only fake (Driven by the urge to out-do another to gain notoriety) but it's occuring a LOT earlier.
When you give something to Teens, and give that same thing to Adults, What the target crowd does with "it" is very different. Teens, in this case, have regarded sex as a challenge. Something to master. The desired result is to become the best at Sex. I would like to divide this into the two appropriate groups:
Boys, leave the room. (Yeah, right. This is for you to understand a little something). Girls have a double-standard by which to live. "A guy has lots of sex, and he's cool. A girl does and she's a slut". The good news, is you're the not the first people to realise this. The bad news, it's still just as fucking true and just as fucking intolerable. Sorry. I have worse news though : This is propagated by Boys. Not by anyone else. Males, as a whole, have found a way to soften you into a pliable material that they can mold and shape to their desires. Add a pinch of humiliation, a dash of self-loathing, and a girl will stick with a boy through anything.
Girls, leave the room. (Yeah, Right. This is for you to understand a little something). Boys have a horrible little truth to live by as well. They have
zero control of anything in their personal lives. So much priority has been given to the girl, that a boy is powerless in his personal affairs. It's
necessary to his self worth that he
has a girl, and that girl isn't going to shop around for another guy, leaving him to pick up the pieces of a shattered, ever-so-delicate house of cards he calls a life. Also, No one wants a boy. Yeah yeah, all you girls may say "You're full of shit, I like boys" but in all honesty, You don't. Your desire for them is as honest as their desire for you.
But I digress - These are things even I have to deal with in my generation, and that's all of Genx, all the way into those born around 1960. The era of free love left us all fucked up and jaded because we weren't the ones surrounded by droves of "free" men or women. Free love gave us fat girls and stinky men. Basically, your parents and grandparents. Ick.
When the mating pool was shaken back in the 70s and 80s, all the soot settled into place, and the good stuff rose to the top. Chances are you're the result of the mating of soot, and not so much the upper crust of human specimens. Sorry. You see, that free-style fast-and-loose dating thing (Divorce, swinging, cheating, et al) made a whole lot of kids spawned in the good faith of normal, desperate people doing anything for good-looking people, and running away from people with actual character and honor.
What I'm trying to say is that your parents more than likely turned away a quality man or woman that could have been your father or mother - and instead chose to bump uglies with the good-looking one. Respect was found in the chiseled jaw of an adonis, or the big boobies of a Barbie. "He'd make a great father / She'd make a great mother" became "You two would have beautiful kids"
So here we have it. I've laid out not only the fact that you're all nothing more than sexual tools for the opposite sex, but also - And this is a Celerity Freebie® - Why you are.
The focus on this has been so great, that you are now nothing but the sum of your acheivements and perceptions of self.
Open for discussion. I'll continue with more, as well as the interesting 3 hour conversation me and my long-term ex had today.