The “Crying Closet” At The University OF Utah Library Is Not A Good Look For Our Generation

Dent7 years ago

We’re at a point now where the last crop of millennials have pretty much graduated college. Replacing them is Generation Z — who, by definition, is anyone born in the latter half of the 90s to the early 2000s. This generation, like their predecessors, are characterized with being entitled, whiny, brats who ruin everything.

When we aren’t boycotting meaningless things or obsessing over our phones, we’re killing our elders’ beloved chain restaurants and department stores. Or at least that’s what they say about us. I tend to disagree with this take, but there are definitely things we do that aren’t helping our cause. This introduction of a “Cry Closet” is one of those things.

It’s a literal safe space. Not some emotional construct that the blue-haired chick in your liberal studies class is handing out pamphlets for. This is a tangible space where one can go to feel safe about themselves. Allegedly, the creation of this space was supposed to be part of some thought-provoking artistic statement? Maybe it’s over my head, but I don’t get it.

Back in the day, closets were where you had your first kiss and learned to do finger stuff. My middle school self was proud to get his first OTP action inside of a closet. It was a rite of passage, but I guess times have changed.

You Gen-Zers really wanna boycott something? Boycott this idea. Artistic or not, it’s making the whole squad look soft. Or, you know, use it to make the sex. Although, that idea might be a tough sell in milk toast Utah (Damn Mormons).

Every generation is going to think the next one sucks. That’s just how these things go. Still, let’s just try our best to not make them right..

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