Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

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Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

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This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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These memories are magic. Last night Alice Cooper told a story about meeting Elvis (“not fat Elvis, not drugged Elvis - *Elvis*”) and seeing how fame kept him prisoner at home, and he never wanted that for himself so he will happily sign and take photos so he can still be out on the street.

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Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

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