Comments on: You Go, Girl

By: Dervala

Dervala — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:25:52 +0000

You know, Lillian, I’ve been doing a lot of youth research for a project I’m working on, and I think this generation is confident and well-adjusted, on the whole. They’re the Baby-on-Board generation, raised to be special, and (as a generation) fairly sheltered—think car safety seat laws, or padded playgrounds, or Megan’s Law.

The trying on identities thing seems to come from amazing media saturation they absorbed from birth. They’re raised in a world everyone can act like a talking head on a moments notice, where everyone expects to be famous, and where kids practice model poses in their bedrooms. They act like they’ve had full media training, and some of them even manage to act natural once in a while. They’re an interesting bunch, and I wonder what kind of world they’re going to make for us.

By: Lillian

Lillian — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:08:43 +0000

You are very good at articulating these concepts. I especially like the third last paragraph: “I want her to show Americans how to include love and family in success.”

“She’s of a generation that knows how to try on and package identities” – as if they are too insecure to have their own. Is it me, or are young people in North America getting more and more insecure with each subsequent generation?

By: Dervala

Dervala — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:32:54 +0000

Those are among the nicest compliments I can think of. Thanks!

By: houston

houston — Sun, 14 May 2006 04:02:40 +0000

Dervala: You really hit the pocket, again, with this one. No jingo; just the real. To pick up on the previous comment, your observing eye seems filled with love. Even when you’re doubtful or (occasionally) cynical, yours seems a loving eye.

Keep moving ahead. Thanks for taking us with you.

—h

By: Jack Dalton

Jack Dalton — Tue, 09 May 2006 02:19:56 +0000

Yep… she’s back for a while.
Lovely piece. That watching eye of yours misses very little.