Self-Infantilization  You ever hear something so plain and simple that just smacks some sense into you? That's how I felt at 19:43-20:00 when Elliot says "Enjoying  a kid's movie, wearing a Hello Kitty shirt, or even baby talking isn't necessarily being a child or childish in the same way that a child enjoying watiching rated R movies, cursing, and talking about stocks or something is not automatically them being an adult."  I knew that I was probably being a bit unreasonable with feeling like I'm childish because I don't think I live up to the aesthetics of adulthood but that quote just plainly put it to my face to where it felt painfully obvious, like *why tf was I thinking anything different* obvious.  I also found the rest of the video interesting in the way that infantilization works both in marginalizing people as well as absolving responsibility from those in power in order to reinforce power dynamics. The video talks about this along the lines of race, class, gender, and ability which illustrates the point very well.  The video touches on this but I just wanted to reiterate this. I liked how it touched on right wingers infantilizing Millennials and Gen Z. I talked in my previous posts on how adulthood looks different for us since it is harder for us to acheive the traditional markers of adulthood like moving out, buying a house, getting married, starting a family etc. due to financial constraints and the cost of living. And I feel that the average boomer hears the word Millennial and they think of a college graduate in their early 20s expecting the absolute most and when they hear Gen Z, they think of like school children. But most Millennials are in their 30s to early 40s and a good chunk of Gen Z are in their early to mid 20s. This is also reflected on the way that various articles talk about how "Millennials and Gen Z are having trouble buying houses and drowing in student debt" for instance, but I think it would be far more alarming if the article read "Adults under 45 are having trouble buying houses and drowing in student debt." And while Millennials and Gen Z aren't inherently infantilizing terms, they're just labels for different generational cohorts, I feel there is an undercurrent of infantilization in it's connotation that causes people to downplay what is affecting a lot of adults today in favor of the status quo pre 2008 and pre COVID. I think this video is especially important to adults of today to not underestimate ourselves and agency despite us not reaching the same financial milestones as our parents in order to advocate for ourselves and our rights collectively but also take responsibility in our lives individually.