I find this an incredibly unfair assessment. It's really offensive. I'm surrounded by this generation in my son and his peers. They are no more "fragile" than we were in the 1060s and 70s, fighting for a better world. The same kinds of people who demeaned the "hippies" and the civil rights activists and women's activists at the same people now casting the newest generation as never having "faced 'real' hardship" and making "mountains out of molehills."

They're fighting for the world they expect – a more equitable and just society. They're not disconnected and they don't have a problem communicating face to face with each other. I see them with each other and that accusation is patently false.

They're disconnected from the previous generations because we're still arguing the same old failed debates. They're simply done with the generation that's dragging our society backward, working assiduously to unspool the cultural and societal advancements of the past hundred years!

As for not facing "real" problems, they came up in the middle of a pandemic. They grew up practicing regular active shooter drills and still watching kids their age slaughtered – and gun restrictions eased. They are coming to adulthood in an era when there are more guns than people and those guns have more rights than girls and women.

If they're disenfranchised from society, it's because society is failing them.