How are the kids doing?

There is a new essay contest in Vanity Fair, and it asks, what are today's youth concerned about? Notice how an election and war dividing the nation has now taken back burner to other rather insignificant things, like Tom Cruise and Lindsay Lohan (or are these things distractions from our deeper worries...)

But, I too have noticed a disaffection amongst today's youth. I'm under 30 and ashamed of my own self for not getting more politically involved, but, as my boyfriend says, "Bitch gotta eat," and even after 50 hrs of work a week I still barely get by. Leaves little time for civil disobedience. The average family's financial risk as increased dramatically from the socially conscious '70s.

Anyhoo, me and the boy were at a party recently that happened to have a niche of just-graduated beachy golden boys. Most seemed from wealthy backgrounds--after all, one of these grads was hosting us at his beach apartment home (and techically my buddy, who is older, who lived next door--and not a spoiled college grad). As I went to find some cake, my boy overheard the following:

Guy: "When you fire a guy, that's bad--that's competition. When you fire a woman, it's okay--hey, future wife."

That's where today's youth is. Great, isn't it?