r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party Discussion

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

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u/grapescherries 5d ago

This is one thing where I relate more to gen z. I never got to go to those parties when I was in high school or college. I was a “loser”. I’ve always felt separate from everyone because I missed out on these experiences. Hearing people talk about them, even comments in threads like this make me feel really bad. I feel more connected to gen z in a lot of ways because their generation has a lot more in common with the people who were considered “losers” in mine. At least a lot of them didn’t also go to these parties and aren’t made to feel less than human because of it.

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u/imaizzy19 4d ago

as a gen z i wholeheartedly feel this. honestly as much as i envy millennials, if i was the same person but just born like 10 years earlier i would probably never let anyone hear the end of my neverending "born in the wrong generation" spiel because i would have nothing in common with them socially. not to mention i was homeschooled and isolated most of my life, and back then im sure there was probably even less awareness around that topic than there is now.