Admiral Beez
Superstar
G’ah, today i received the Toronto Star’s Insider Guide to Colleges and Universities. My teenaged children were reviewing the guide as they begin to consider their future studies. I couldn’t help but notice all the writing about “safe spaces” and something called “consent culture”. But worst of all was a call out to this company, https://safepod.ca/ and its treacle-like company audits and workshops about inclusivity.
I think back to my great grandfather, who in his late teens and early 20s was a senior officer on a British clipper ship in the 1880s, to my grandfathers who in their early 20s were both married with kids while commanding anti aircraft batteries and serving in the British army in Burma against Japan, to my parents emigrating to Canada in the mid-1970s in their early 20s, with three young children, and then to myself and my brothers, getting university educations, families, homes, etc. Sure, with each generation it got a little easier, but now we seem to be a society of pansies. My great-grandfather onto my brothers and I didn’t demand safe spaces, or whatever that is. If you didn’t cut it, you failed.
At the CNE I spoke to the CAF recruiters about what it’s like to get young folks to join the military. And the gristled, older (mid 40s) guy told me it’s really tough, since in the military your individuality is erased and irrelevant. No one cares about new recruit’s special feelings or emotional needs, instead you’re part of your unit and its larger unit. Certainly they’re working on PTSD and mental health for veterans, but recruits....no they have no time for snowflake culture.
Anyway, that’s my rant. Sorry. That https://safepod.ca/ BS, dare I say in modern parlance, triggered me. But what the hell has happened to our young adults? When did we change to everyone is special, in their specialness? How did we get by before without safe spaces?
I think back to my great grandfather, who in his late teens and early 20s was a senior officer on a British clipper ship in the 1880s, to my grandfathers who in their early 20s were both married with kids while commanding anti aircraft batteries and serving in the British army in Burma against Japan, to my parents emigrating to Canada in the mid-1970s in their early 20s, with three young children, and then to myself and my brothers, getting university educations, families, homes, etc. Sure, with each generation it got a little easier, but now we seem to be a society of pansies. My great-grandfather onto my brothers and I didn’t demand safe spaces, or whatever that is. If you didn’t cut it, you failed.
At the CNE I spoke to the CAF recruiters about what it’s like to get young folks to join the military. And the gristled, older (mid 40s) guy told me it’s really tough, since in the military your individuality is erased and irrelevant. No one cares about new recruit’s special feelings or emotional needs, instead you’re part of your unit and its larger unit. Certainly they’re working on PTSD and mental health for veterans, but recruits....no they have no time for snowflake culture.
Anyway, that’s my rant. Sorry. That https://safepod.ca/ BS, dare I say in modern parlance, triggered me. But what the hell has happened to our young adults? When did we change to everyone is special, in their specialness? How did we get by before without safe spaces?
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