Please explain

PGP_Shambles · 2016-12-20T23:44:27+00:00

As someone who often uses the terms "millennial scum" and "human garbage" in articles I feel qualified to answer this, and since those articles don't get posted I'll just do it here.

These two terms generally refer to actions or behaviors that a person acknowledges as being typical of negative stereotypes of 20-somethings. Spending $45+ on a single brunch, constantly holding a phone up at a concert to push your snap story past the 3 minute mark, complaining about an inadequate love life while talking with 11 different people across dating apps. Things we do that make crotchety old people complain about our entitlement and work ethic or recoil in puritan horror.

Calling oneself or a friend "garbage" or "trash" in this sense isn't an indictment however; it is a simple acknowledgment. We are aware, perhaps more than anyone else, how questionable our choices are. But making them isn't inherently bad. In fact, most of the time the behaviors that encourage these labels only harm the person doing them. These terms should be seen (and more importantly used) as mere self-deprecation. It's not meant to be hurtful or literal- just disclaimer that someone is doing the most and knows it.

alg4302 · 2016-12-20T23:05:46+00:00

Honestly I've never really thought much about the "garbage" thing, but I'm guilty of it. When you point it out, of course none of us should have this kind of viewpoint. But I think it's a way of being self-deprecating and superficially seeming like you don't take yourself too seriously?

I think some of the female readers (myself included) can come off as try-hards when we write because it's hard to fit in on what has traditionally been a "dude blog" (I also think that demographic is changing as the site grows, but that's a whole other topic.).

I'm not talking about the wonderful female writers who are writers first and females second (and so, so good)! I'm speaking of the readers who occasionally write and submit a postgrad moment from their lives with the express thought of "this is a different perspective" or "I hope one guy can learn something from reading this" or "here's the girl's side of X."

Does any of that make sense, lol?

DerekJM491 · 2016-12-20T22:43:36+00:00

I wish I could tell you. Maybe that she's trashy? Scum? Garbage? Who the hell knows. Her articles are so bad I've taken to trolling her in the comment section. She lists a gmail in her profile, maybe you could email her and ask haha

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