Coming Out: LGBT Old School Hates Gen Z?!?

This was one of the lesser links on Drudge today but it's worth exploring beyond the headline because there's some really great commentary that might provide locals with more insight than they're getting from all of this dull election coverage.

Moreover . . .

We love "generation gap" reporting if only because there's nothing funnier or more pathetic than 50-somethings calling boomers "old" whilst Gen Alpha has moved beyond communicating with words and circled back around to emoji hieroglyphics.

Either way . . .

Constant culture warriors may enjoy this passage and that's why we wanted to share it with our favorite readers who think outside the box . . .

"The main reason for the Gen Z obsession with ‘coming out’ in general, and with Mendes in particular, is because sexual orientation has become their cult totem. The white middle class youth need the ‘queer’ identity because it’s a route for them to accrue the necessary points for oppression, and thus a sense of identity and purpose in our rudderless world. (Their only other option is a self-diagnosed ‘neurodiverse’ condition, hence the abundance of ADHD and Asperger’s in their social media bios).

"They demand kindness, awareness and authenticity – which in practice means everybody picking a flag, even if it’s a bespoke one, and sticking to the party line. So Mendes must confirm and confess to the Inquisition.

"Fans need now to pin, mount and label their idols like butterflies. It’s all enormously unhealthy. And this demand for everything to be codified, indexed and noted runs smack into a problem with singers – that there is an illusion of intimacy between poet/performer and fan.

"The confessional, soul-baring character of much modern pop music – from Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo to Shawn Mendes himself – means that holding anything back is viewed as suspicious, or phoney. Mystery is – or rather it was – a part of stardom, but it has no place in the Instagram age of the constant delivery of ‘content’: unfiltered, direct from the artist. Now everything must be nailed down and quantified."

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