Considering my sexuality and my life circumstances, this tweet can fuck off. This generation is absurdly soft and overcoddled, to the point where many within it can’t handle a simple disagreement.
boomers are more coddled than any of us will ever be
Baby boomers didn’t demand ‘safe spaces’ at university though
no they just freak out when their food is 20 seconds late and cry when a sports ball man doesn’t stand for the anthem
They fucking demanded that women not be allowed in college with them. They demanded women not wear pants! Even young school girls couldn’t wear pants in 20 degree weather! But yeah, sure, they didn’t demand safe spaces. Just demanded everyone follow their ideals.
> Baby boomers are people born between 1946 and 1964.
> Women were not allowed to go into colleges until around the end of the 19th century.
Baby boomers were not involved in “demanding women not be allowed in college with them”. By the time baby boomers were generally college-aged, women in colleges was a widespread and generally quite accepted thing. Get your facts straight, @callmegoddess618.
The first Ivy League college that wasn’t Cornell didn’t admit women until 1977. Prior to then, women were “allowed” to college courses but weren’t allowed to graduate from them. Look up Radcliff college. Last I checked, someone born in ‘46 would have been in college well before ‘77. And I love how you completely ignore that fact that young girls had to attend school in snow storms in fucking skirts and tights. They also demanded women on TV not wear pants. They demanded a safe space from women being on juries, demanded women not have her own bank accounts or credit cards.
This isn’t even to touch on the shit people of color and members of the LGBT+ community had to put up with from Boomers.
So maybe pretending that Boomers never once demanded “safe spaces” from things that offended them is a bad idea.
>The first Ivy League college that wasn’t Cornell didn’t admit women until 1977.
July 16, 1840 —Catherine Brewer becomes the first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree, graduating from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.
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You said ‘college’, not Ivy League. In fact, the woman who was admitted to that college would’ve been a boomer. You’re ignoring the second half, where boomers ended in 1964.
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They also demanded women on TV not wear pants.
Like the Mary Tyler Moore Show, or Three’s Company, or Charlie’s Angels, all hit shows which starred boomers?
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They demanded a safe space from women being on juries,
>Utah became the first state which included women in jury service, from 1898.[2]In 1942, Glasser v. United States struck down legislation that required women to take a jury class to serve as jurors. Hoyt v. Florida in 1961 upheld state laws that did not make women’s jury service mandatory, but Taylor v. Louisiana in 1975 struck down such laws. In 1979, Duren v. Missouri ruled that women should not be permitted to opt out from jury service. J.E.B. v. Alabama was a 1994 ruling which held that lawyers could not use peremptory challenges to influence the jury’s gender ratio.[3]
Again, instead of demanding safe spaces, the very ‘boomers’ you decry were challenging these laws and prejudices.
Please stop. This is just embarrassing.
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Last I checked, someone born in ‘46 would have been in college well before ‘77.
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Yes. They’d be 31 in 1977.
Do you think it was people 31 and under that had control over the school’s policies?
Have you considered for a moment that you may not be talking about “Boomers” but people born in the interwar period?
And in contrast, Oxford university first allowed women to graduate in 1920 and Cambridge in 1869 (although it didn’t admit them as members until 1947).
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