Ah, when will life be simple and magical again?
School, work, and my behind recovering from a Saturday of snowboarding in freezing rain — is there anything I won’t do for an adrenalin rush is a question I should ask myself — has tightened the corridor of blogging space in time available here.
Things I’ve resigned myself to this week.
The realization that the $200,000 inaugural package offered at the Mandarin Oriental — a package which comes with evening wear by Ralph Lauren and unlimited use of a chauffeured Maserati Quattroporte —
does not fit into my budget, no matter how much manipulation I do.
I’ve resigned myself to reading never ending accounts of how Gen Y has to do this or that to get a job, be satisfied with their career, change their career, live a purposeful life, what we’re going to have to suffer through, and what we are going to have to buy into, from green products to cars and government. I’m tired of hearing people talk about how Generation Y’ers must use the internet to their advantage or not use it at all, as if anyone of us actually think to use the internet intentionally to our disadvantage. I’m sick of this vague persistent theory that heterogeneous, political and sociological experience can be explained by putting together an age specific group without discrimination and by designating merit and inadequacies to that generation as if it were not millions of seperate thinking individuals but some coagulated chunk of gelatin based product.
I’ve resigned myself to the fact I will probably never be green enough to want to use cloth sanitary napkins in order to save the planet. My part in the scourge of tampons which fill the landfills yearly will continue. I understand that cardboard tampon applicators fill up landfills, but they do have tampons without applicators, and that is as far as I’m willing to go. When they figure out a better place to dump the hazardous waste of Fort Detrick and Fort Meade I’ll start worrying about my tampons.
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I don’t know, Miss Cooper – these sound an awful lot like resolutions rather than resignations. You’re treading dangerously close to becoming a closet resolutionist.
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Is that better than a resignationist?
God I hope so.
Ha! A principled stand. You young folk are principled.
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But I have this great
schemeinvestment for you, a sure 100 times your money winner. I’d suggest no less than a two hundred thousand dollar investment to start.I’m in if I can leverage it 100,000:1! Does it involve going to the store for tampons?
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Welcome to my world. Ever since generations were named – coincided with the beginning of TV and true marketing– individuals have been resigned to being cohorts – ready for studies of similarities with individualism being a concept more associated with Columbine than reality
I’m getting bamboo floors. My appliances will be all the most energy efficent, I don’t own a car and walk everywhere in a place where public transportation is nil, and still people find ways I can be greener. I have found these people to either be zealots or people who put their expectations for themselves on other people while they don’t practice what they preach
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Bamboo floors how awesome will that be.
I draw the line at tampons. My family is general is pretty green which ias part of the reason we traveled so much for my fathers projects so I can’t totally dis it but the tampon thing is a little ridiculous when there are huge issues similar to the Detrick hazardous waste issue which are not addressed and haven’t been for years.
It’s all about the organic cotton tampons without the applicator. When I started to actually think about it, I had to wonder why shove something that’s not organic up there?
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I’m with you on this one, if there’s an organic choice use it.
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I don’t use applicators but I am heading straight to the green store tomorrow.
Priceless!
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Oh they set a price alright it’s just beyond what I was hoping to spend.
There’s nothing worse than going into the mens room and finding a used tampon in the toilet. Kind of gives you a what the fuck moment. I’m happy not to have to worry about it, and probably wouldn’t be too concerned were I female, even though I’m an avid recycler.
No way I’m hitting the inauguration. I don’t know if anyone understands a chauffeur isn’t going to be able to get around any better than the beat up old Ford but let them figure it out when they get there.
Four or five hundred port-a-pots are not going to cut it.
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We spent a lot of time there so we know but I think people understand and don’t care. I did hear that there is a limit on the port a pots they can have and they are telling people to bring their own tp.
Having not been in a men’s room recently I don’t know how often that problems occurs.
I’m going to sit at the office and watch it on the tube, my ship hasn’t come in so I won’t be sailing to the inauguration in a fine car or standing in line waiting to pee in a portable bathroom. I live close but not close enough to make the trip in that trafic. I almost feel sorry for those coming from elsewhere not knowing what they are getting into.
Of course if you can afford the 200,000 package you don’t have my sympathy — the cars have a potty I bet.
I’m still waiting for my recycling barrel the county is supposed to be giving to everyone. I’m excited about it. I don’t think I’d worry a bout the tampons if I were a woman, there sre, as you pointed out, some huge issues which have yet to be addressed before tampons. My wife wouldn’t appreciate the suggestion either.
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The city has theirs but they are slow with the rest of the county.
Why on earth is your office open that day.
kidding.
Those packages are pretty incredible aren’t they?
Even if I had that much spare cash I think I could find somewhere better to put it.
The lumping together of generation y is something generation y buys into much to their own detriment. I think we are pretty cool in many ways but we aren’t all the same even though the marketers would have us believe so, and many people fall for it. I know and work with too many people not of our generation to think this way. I’d rather be lumped into groups by any number of things before my generation. Good looks for instance.
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yes the looks thing is worthy for sure but in reality it is possible more valid a grouping though very subjective.
Do have a question. Is Gen Y the same thing as Millennials? I’m not sure if I’m Gen X or Gen Y.
I do have limits to my greenness as well. I can’t seem to use rechargeable batteries as often as I should. And I have an SUV. I’m such a slacker.
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yea I guess gen y is millennial’s the catch term of the now gen.
I’m am actually pretty green but there are lines to be drawn and other battles to fight.
I do use rechargeable batteries, low wattage light bulbs, and recycle my plastic whenever possible, but – cloth????? OMG.
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There are limits for sure actonbell.
Sometimes it is better to be comfy and sanitary than to be “green.”
Besides, I ain’t planning to go to the beach in jersey this year.
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You’re not kidding.
This is going to sound totally disgusting, but I ran across an article about a little cup that you use instead of sanitary products (you heard me, a cup)…and you empty it, rinse it out, and put it back in…eww.
Um, I’ll stick to the tampons, thank you…
And I think I’m too old to be considered Gen Y…that is what I’m resigned too…
Yea and those things are probably made of some kid of toxic plastic as well.
I don’t know what generation I am and I like it that way. The tampon thing, organics are good cloth is bad, you have a point about them having some longstanding huge issues which have a much greater impact on the environment.
I’m going to enjoy the inauguration from the comfort of my home. Except for the hot chocolate it will be an almost free event.
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I’m not really sure where I’ll enjoy it from to be honest.
Wait… are you saying that you can’t be summed up with a letter assigned to you because of your age? My mind, she is blown.
As for the rest, all I know is that everyone I know who’s tried the cups have said positive things about them.
Yeah… they all tell me about such things.
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I agree about the generalizations of generations that Doug Coupland is parrtially responsible for popularizing. However, do you believe there is till means to turn the mass characterization into a positive?
Is there a means to motivate a generation, not sure. I think there is too much group think already, and each person needs to develop their own best qualities without assuming a role or characteristics assigned to them by some random marketeer — yes I meant eer.
It’s sad that anyone would be so grossed out by their own bodies and its natural functions that they can’t even bring themselves to consider cloth sanitary napkins or the re-usable non-toxic cups. What’s “gross” is sticking a bleached piece of factory fluff inside yourself, putting yourself at risk for TSS (which is not associated with the cups), then throwing the whole thing away and forgetting about it, leaving it to end up in towering landfills where OTHER people and animals have to deal with it. (This is not intended directly to the writer of the blog post but to some of the comments.)
The problem is that though most of the cups are stated to be re-usable they break down, which is why they need to be replaced every so often and the break-down occurs inside your vagina. This according to my gynecologist.
Like I said there are other issues with much larger impact on the environment which have not been addressed on any level, and though I feel organic tampons with no applicator are a good choice I personal would not be comfortable wearing a pad of any kind cloth or not.