Brunching on Millennial Stereotypes

Dear Matt,

Millennials—why am I always reading about them? Why should I care? And why do they always seem to be eating brunch?




Hungry for truth,

Darcy

I don't really like to stereotype large groups of people, except for Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, seniors, Southerners, et al. And not because I'm racist, ageist, or even locationist. But because stripping people of nuance and imputing broad group-identity characteristics to them as individuals helps cut them down to size, making them more journalistically manageable so I can track in the easy, prefab generalizations that professionally-trained perception brokers such as myself readily employ to make us seem more insightful than we actually are.