Millenials Aren't Killing Anything

     You can't spend much time on the internet anymore without scrolling past a few articles whining about industries that were, frankly, never practical. The internet replaced the needs for certain services, products either improved to replace others, or they simply fell away.
     Fabric softener isn't necessary. The diamond industry was unethical. Toys'r'Us was always hella bougie. We can find the same toys cheaper online.
      Meanwhile, previous generations may have more blood on their hands for these corporate mini deaths than many would like to admit.  Double standards became standard under their power.
     Today? You can't find an employee willing to stay at a job that makes them miserable without them ghosting you? Boo hoo. Offer better work conditions and implicate more practical and ethical policies, and less toxic atmospheres, and watch people stay.
     If Millenials are responsible for killing anything, it's solely due to the fact that whatever it was, was killing first.
     We didn't start this fire. We just grew up in it.

Why I Won't Participate in the Female Blackout

     It's as simple as this. Men exclude women from plenty of their spaces enough as it is already. I won't be depriving them of my presence. They're happy enough without it. I'm not going to forgo hard earned placement in society for the sake of men.
     Not now, not ever. History shows times when women were hardly permitted anywhere. Marketplaces, taverns, men's only clubs, voting booths... You get the jist. I'm not going to amend my daily behaviors yet again for the sake of men.  Especially for the portion of men to blame for contributing to and benefiting from violence, both psychological and physical, toward women.
       I refuse to compromise anything in my life to 'those men'. I don't think acknowledging what has already BEEN compromised requires me to.