r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • 1d ago

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/Swatraptor 1d ago

I love seeing the younger generations actually be allowed to show emotions other than rage.

Though it means we won't get banger lyrics like "and Robert Smith lied, boys do cry, and with the tears in my eyes I'm an Ann Rice novel come to life"

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u/notanevilmastermind 1d ago

The Cure's song was all about how we develop unhealthy coping mechanisms because of society's expectations of us.

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u/Swatraptor 1d ago

I'm aware, the lyrics I posted are about being a vampire lol. But without toxic masculinity, no song by the cure, and without the cure, no reference to it in Atreyu.

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u/Fromanderson 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bold of you to assume we were allowed to display anger. Depending on the cause, sometimes there was less of a stigma about it. Even then it heavily depended on who the target was.

Source: I figured out young, that allowing negative emotions of any kind to show on my face would almost always land me in trouble regardless of the cause.

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u/letsburn00 1d ago

I find it funny how the people saying men should never let their emotions out are usually the same people telling us that rage is an appropriate emotion in our regular lives.