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The Age of Irony War, Poverty, Racial Injustice, Recession, Depression: Millenials Find it Hard to Face the Future. No Joke. by Sonia Salkind 6
“Like a straggling army, it has no clear beginning or end. And yet each generation has some features <strong>that</strong> are more significant than others; each has a quality as distinctive as a man’s accent, each makes a statement to the future, each leaves behind a picture of itself.” -TIME Magazine, 1951 I think men are better than women,” deadpans Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza in her role as the ironic April Ludgate. A coworker gapes across the table. “She’s kidding,” she nervously assures the room. “No, I’m not,” Plaza continues, eyes emotionless. “They provide for us, and we must obey them because they are our masters.” Making light of sexism, the character trivializes gender inequity. With biting sarcasm, a cool, apathetic exterior, and a general disliking of anything <strong>that</strong> isn’t herself, Plaza represents the Millennial generation of privileged youth born between 1980 and 2000. Millennials, which media caters to, came of age with the entitlement of a financially comfortable culture, and within their ranks exists a preference for making a joke to making a statement. Variously designated as “assassins of cool,” “ungrateful hipsters,” and an “empty consumer group,” these disaffected types use irony as a defense mechanism in a escalating process of denial and evasion. Irony contradicts the normal interpretation of a concept, comically imparting the opposite meaning. Commonly used in wry humor, cynicism,
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