Spoiled with a Sense of Entitlement: America's New Generation

How did we get here?

Abigail Fisher, a white student from Texas, sued the "college of her dreams" because she didn't get in.  She says she didn't get in because she was white, but her grades in comparison with those of the students admitted were mediocre. With a 3.59 GPA and a score of 1180 out of 1600 on the SAT, her credentials were far from horrible but they weren't great, and they weren't as good as the applicants she was competing with, so she didn't make the cut.  Never mind the fact that she went to another college, has since graduated, and unlike MANY other college graduates she already has a job, she deserved to get in and someone should pay!  

More recently, a set of girls at Howard University sued Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated because they weren't chosen for membership.  That's kind of the way these organizations work people.  A sorority or fraternity reserves the right to choose to whom they extend membership.  Sometimes you aren't chosen.  You go home, cry, throw something, and try again, or you just live with it.  

Let's face it.  People in American love lawsuits and petitions.  You don't get into the college of your choice, the sorority of your choice doesn't choose you, or you don't get the grade you want in a class, so you throw a tantrum and file suit, start a petition, protest.  It's life! When you were in elementary school you might not have been picked for a team on kickball day in gym. You won't always get what you want, and that is just how it is. I think part of what pisses me off is that there are people who ARE discriminated against, who won't be taken as seriously because of the way people make these frivolous gestures as often as they change clothes.  The governor of Alabama stood outside of a university to keep black students from attending, people are fighting for the right to get married, women's reproductive rights are under attack, and you want to have a bitch fit because you didn't do well enough to get into the school of your choice, were rejected by a sorority or got a bad grade? Please cry me a river, then go fall into it.  

The bottom line is this.  If you want something, work for it.  Don't feel like you are entitled to what you want in life.