07-19-2016, 12:44 PM
(07-19-2016, 11:26 AM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(07-19-2016, 11:07 AM)disasterzone Wrote: What I don't understand is why Millennials seem to excuse groups when they make insults towards people but they don't seem to tolerate people fighting back and insulting them back. Instead we're supposed to be mature in the face of immaturity and be the better person while the other people win. If you let people get away with acting insulting towards you, then you create more of that behavior. I don't see why they think it's not worth it to argue with them. I really don't get it. It teaches them a lesson whereas walking away doesn't. In Xers it seems like they expect you to get thicker skin and tolerate it. It's like they want everyone to just brush everything off. They too don't understand the importance of teaching people lessons of respect.
That's what my parents seem to think. When they criticize me, I'm supposed to brush it off (or change myself), but when I fight back, it's considered "disrespectful". As a Millennial growing up with Xer parents, it's frustrating.
Yeah it's like a big proportion of Xers think toughening up is the solution to all fights like you don't have a right to be offended and show your offense. They think of it as entitled to complain about it.
I don't get the disrespectful bit. I mean if someone disrespects you, you have every right to be that way back. It doesn't make you just as bad as the other person because as far as I'm concerned, the other person started it. Being right means more to me than being mature. Ironically these attitudes encourage maltreatment because they know they can get away with it.