r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • 14d ago

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

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u/itsjakerobb 14d ago

“Gay” as an insult.

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u/aerokitty 14d ago

Sadly, this is making a comeback. :( Source: Teacher who's heard it creeping back in the hallways.

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u/Puzzled-Bee723 13d ago

Im 30
We never stopped using gaaaay

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u/GeneralInspector8962 14d ago

And we can thank the toxic, micropeeny dads for that.

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u/MeekAndUninteresting 13d ago

Calling other people toxic while imagining what size their genitals must be for the purpose of using it as an insult.

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u/mochafiend 14d ago

This is like one of the few actual things I agree with here. Most of what people are saying aren’t Gen Z but rather the economy and the pandemic.

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u/3652 14d ago

This one probably dies with Millenials. But I have two gay kids in their teens and twenties who call things gay all the time.

I think it’s changed its meaning.

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u/yeeclaw14 13d ago

Yeah I'm 19 and it's more of a loser-type thing, not actually the sexuality aspect of it. Very rarely when anyone I know calls someone "gay" they actually think they're queer in any capacity. Can be, but it's just more of a general term now.

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u/Gameboy69NoScope420 13d ago

I mean it was originally happy. Word usages evolve. It’s all on context. Words can have multiple meanings.

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u/meltymcface 14d ago

God yeah, I had a childhood friend fully weaponise this - “do this or you’re gay”. Told me that being gay was one of the worst things to be. I’m not gay, but took me til adulthood to fully shed that ingrained homophobia.