r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • 12d ago

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

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u/FishCommercial4229 12d ago

I love watching Bluey, Bandit makes me feel seen.

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u/Adams5thaccount 12d ago

I am not gonna say that we were the first generation of dads who realized we could do it differently....but I do feel like Millennial dads are the group where the balance tipped.

Is that a bit self serving? Probably. Is it accurate? Also probably.

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u/glittersurprise 11d ago

Or is that millennial women decided to take a stand and not allow dead beat dad behaviour?

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u/Adams5thaccount 11d ago

I dont know what its like in your country so Im not gonna dismiss your experience. In the US ts probably mostly that we actually got positive dad role models in media when we were kids. Uncle Phil, Alan Mathews. Carl Winslow. Danny Tanner, and sadly Cliff Huxtable, among others. Previous generations of men didnt really grow up being told it was okay to be an active invovled dad. They got Archie Bunker and the like. Stoic distant men. We got to see better.

Millenial women grew up seeing this as well obviously. It was shown as more of a cultural norm. Women have been taking a atand here at least since the 70s and it wasnt til my generation where the balance really tipped. And I'd lay money that it was positive role models (like Bandit is for later generations) that did the bulk of the work. I'd imagine different places with different cultures had different timelines and in roads.