In response to Generation Wuss by Bret Easton Ellis:

Generation Adaptable
Some view millennials as weak. Others view us as overly sensitive. But what
they dont understand is that we are adaptable. Being overly sensitive
towards a subject in itself can be considered weak; but why cant it be
considered as compassionate? Solicitous? Empathetic? Although the media
only shows subjects that are harsh teen suicide for example the empathy
behind the responses are genuine, because they are coming from millennials
as well. A reason why there might be so much more teen suicide in this
generation may be due to how much harsher and evil the world has become.
Do not blame it on us being overly-sensitive; blame it on the world being
overly-cruel. As generations begin to change, prior ones must evolve in order
to keep up with how the world is changing. And for millennials, sympathizing
is a way we must adapt to our society in this time and age. For the
generations before us, keep in mind that you too had to evolve after war; to
have thicker skin and a stronger mindset thirty+ years ago. For us, we must
stand together by all means possible, and if that means we must show
empathy to make us connect with each other better as a generation, and
prevent tragedies like suicide, cyber-bullying (which is harder to escape than
people let on), and racism by all means, we will. People say millennials grew
up overly sheltered by their parents, yet we grew up less sheltered than
most generations due to technology. Technology has been in our lives since
we were young and has shown us things people our age should not have had
to see yet. But this is not always a bad thing, because being exposed to
these certain events makes us realize we have to be strong in this world and
can even make us reflect on our morals as a person. For example, seeing a
mass murder on the media affects our generation by making us stand up for
those who need standing up for. Terrorism against countries open our eyes to
see that there are bigger problems in the world, while also opening our
hearts to sympathize with those who are struggling outside of our country.
Millennials have done more than just be overly-sensitive. We have lead
campaigns and have shined light on things that have needed exposure. The
#BlackLivesMatter epidemic has made society come closer together to work
for equality, and the same has happened with feminism. We strive for
equality for all, which Generation-X has not attempted to do. But not just
equality, we have protected our own kind with exposing the severeness
behind rape culture. In the past, rape was considered inevitable and faulted
by women and the way they carry themselves. But now, society has a better

understanding of how rape can be prevented and how it is NOT acceptable

and never should be.
We are not too sensitive. We do not overact too much. The difference
between millennials and prior generations is that we use our technology and
social media to make ourselves bolder, while prior generations judge us for
that because the way they might have tried to expose things were physically.
What they dont understand is that times are evolving, and we must adapt.
We use social media more than anything now to get our points across. We do
not necessarily hide behind our computers, but use them to say what
cannot be said in person. It allows us to speak our minds and opinions and to
stand up for certain issues we feel strongly about. Generations before us
have a tough time trying to understand us, therefore they just criticize us
and how we act. They grew up completely different from us and that is okay.
We do not criticize and belittle prior generations for not knowing how to use
social media. We have had to adapt with the world around us changing and
that can be scary for other generations to watch, so they make excuses and
reasons on what is wrong with millennials. But change is good though. Just
because the generations before us grew up differently, does not mean their
ways were better. In fact, the social media outbreak might have been better,
because we can connect with communities outside of our own, and make
them bigger and global.
Prior generations had issues of their own, for example, finding money
to go to college, physical bullying that had to be handled by themselves, etc.
Our generation does not have these issues, thankfully, but we have our own
issues that are just as important. We have to deal with the world throwing us
faces and bodies that we are supposed to look like, creating body image
problems that lead to health disorders and self-esteem issues among both
young men and women. Careers we are supposed to be, life paths we are
supposed to choose, because the world is changing and we must adapt to
technology, whether we like it or not because the demand behind them has
grossed. Almost everything today is chosen for our generation; millennials
are rarely able to be innovative and creative without being critiqued and
punished. Generalized tests have decided our next step in life and decide our
fate and life goals since we were in elementary school. We have mass media
giving us examples of what to frown upon, how to act, how not act; what is
acceptable and unacceptable; but at the same time it claims it is promoting
us to be ourselves. So forgive us if we come off as over-sensitive when we
use social media to express who we really are and to show what really
matters to us, because, more than likely, you prior generations are the ones

controlling the mass media and ultimately brainwashing us to become

everything you criticize us for being.

Genre Remix Assignment Explanation

Edward Tobin, Maura Carroll, Alexis Burns, Michael Delozier, Judy Nguyen
Generation Wuss is an article based on the current teenage generation, or the
90s babies. The original articles intended audience were primarily members of
the last generation, trying to explain why the current generation is flawed, helpless,
and overdramatic. Our remix to the article, which we titled, Generation Adaptable,
explained why our generation is not any more flawed than the prior generations.
Our generation was simply the result of our upbringing, as was every generation
ever.
Our remix, Generation Adaptable, is a humorous insight into why our generation
is fine the way it is. The intended audience of our remix is really anyone and
everyone, but perhaps primarily targeted at members of our generation, the last
generation, and the next generation, as well as all of those who happened to read
Generation Wuss by Brett Easton Ellis. The reason this remix is important is
because it rationalizes Ellis jabs at our psyche, and suggests that maybe a
generation of compassion, empathy, and understanding is not all bad. Our team
collaborated our thoughts on Ellis Generation Wuss and realized that the last
generation could never understand us, because they were brought up in a time that
was dramatically different from the world we were brought up in, and the world we
live in today. The world, the environment, and life as we know it changes every
year, and it is important for the human race to not only recognize the constant
change, but to reevaluate our knowing based on the new information that is
presented to us. In order for the human race to be successful, we must be able to
adapt to make ourselves more capable of understanding and functioning in this
world. Unfortunately, the human race is also plagued by the self-serving bias, which
is the belief that we are more than likely correct about anything most of the time.
Therefore, its understandable how Ellis and his generation believe that they were
the greatest, and the strongest generation. However, our generation has adapted
enough to understand that we may not be right all the time. Research and scientific
development progresses every day, making something we know and are sure of,
obsolete. And although this new information may shatter the world we thought we
knew, we can take that information, and with an open mind we can use it to rethink
what we know, form a better opinion, a stronger structure of knowledge, and
develop a better basis for an understanding of the world that is more true than what
we previously were certain of. Its because of our way of thinking that we have such
a diverse population. For Brett Easton Ellis to say that our way of thinking is
incorrect, is incorrect. Our group decided to share our response article in WordPress.
We shared it on social media and our friends shared it, commented, and liked it the
article. Putting our response out to the public to see and respond was bound to get
feedback, not all of it was positive, and instead of taking it to heart and too deeply,
we took that feedback and viewed it as constructive criticism. By receiving this form
of constructive criticism we are able to grow as people and not take things to heart

as much. By us growing and adapting in our own way we feel that we are just as
superior as previous generations. We worked together as a group to write the
response article, meeting outside of class to write it together. Everyone pulled their
weight in some aspect of the project.