The greatest generation yet...

It is rare - nay, very rare - that I am ever proud to be a part of this generation: we are stagnant and flippant, violent and ignoble, lazy and careless; but, by God, we stage a decent protest. In the past... 12, or so, hours, a petition to have Theresa May removed from her Ironic position as Equalities Minister has garnered more than 6,000 signatures. Now, and to forestall condescension, I do not for one minute imagine this will have any impact. No, I applaud my generation, however, because of two things: the principle, and the gesture. I will tackle the latter first because it is more simplistic, and thus I can be uncharacteristically tart: if a petition gathers more than five-hundred signatures, the government is obliged to at least look at it. They are not mandated to do anything, but obviously - recognition is tantamount to movement insofar as raising awareness goes. For the former, I am genuinely pleased (follow, here, and here). It will be ineffective, and merely indicative of a reactionist generation, but so the fuck what? I'm surprised and amazed that we - the descendants of morons - can organise ourselves so well, and try to do something. It is not on the scale of anything resembling direct action, but it's a start. It is the moral behind it: that we will not take this kind of crap lying down, that is what I laud, not the actual petition. There will be no traction - not until there can be press coverage (I will aim to help), but that is not the point.

GO TEENAGERS!