Gilmore Girls - Rory, the O.G. Annoying Millennial

I've always done what I'm asked, it's not always enough to just do what you're asked to do when Gilmore Girls first aired. Rory Gilmore was a unicorn. She was the rare teenage character who always had her nose in a book and was very approachable. with her mother she is my best friend, but this wasn't framed as uncool, it was aspirational. I want to go to Harvard and study journalism and political science on your way to being Christian Amanpour. It's safe to say that most who watch the original series imagine that. After Rory's graduation from Yale, her arc would only continue its upward trajectory until Rory became the next Amanpour, so it came as a surprise when in 2016's Gilmore Girls revival, A Year in the Life, the young miss

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hadn't exactly become a huge success. no job no credit no underwear instead she was a portrait of a hesitant

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the whole journalism thing didn't really go as expected if you look closer although the original series contains clues as to what went wrong for

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's life they are constantly amazed at how smart and cultured rory is, you are tailor-made for harvard, they are lucky to have you and as the show progresses rory seems to believe her own hype, she gets angry every time something is not easy for him.

To her she becomes more and more authoritarian and arrogant, so I spent a night in jail, big deal, so did Martin Luther King. Are you comparing yourself to Martin Luther King? She is so convinced that she is the main character in her story that she justifies some pretty dubious behavior like having affairs. with married and committed men, plus for a person who prides herself on being a winner at 30, she displays a terrible work ethic. Sorry, I just didn't have a proposal ready. It's a bit strange. I thought you would bring up some ideas if you inspect it more closely. embodies many of the realities of

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white privilege, but unlike some of her peers, she continues to steadfastly deny the fact that she is not an underdog, whether you like it or not, you are one of us, you went to high school, where you go.

Yale, your grandparents are building a whole damn astronomy building in your name. Here's our take on what Rory's failures teach us about the importance of forging your own path and taking responsibility for your mistakes from the beginning. If you're new here, be sure to subscribe and hit the button. Click the bell to receive notifications about all our new videos The world of wine can often seem closed off and smug, so where does the aspiring connoisseur go to find the perfect wine to pair with the perfect meal? Bright Cellers has created a simple quiz to match their Perfect Bottle of Wine quiz.

Are you a rory guy who loves to consume gallons of black coffee with burgers? brilliant cellars has a wine to pair with it and get 50 off your first six bottle wine experience with the link in the description thanks to bryce sellers for sponsoring this video, stealing a ship is a big deal, it bothered me to find out what happens with Gilmore Girls' life about a millennial's coming of age, years before the modern portrait of millennials came to be defined by endless think pieces about avocado toast and the self. -mocking humor from shows like Girls Broad City and Search Party Working feels bad and I never want to work another day in my entire life oh my god, that feels so good to say, as Tara Sethurum writes in Atlantic Rory's experiences. she mirrored or even foreshadowed what would become the defining challenges of her fictional upper-middle-class peers a decade later, from managing the privilege of choice to dealing with a false sense of entitlement.

This is all your fault. You know why? Because you told me I could do anything. So what are these traits that millennials are supposed to embody? Bill Murphy Jr breaks them down into a whopping 17 bad habits, but the ones that come up time and time again are sensitivity to criticism, being alone, and wanting to be entrepreneurial without really understanding. what it takes to get there rory's sense of entitlement is deeply ingrained as a result of both her privileged background and the expectations placed on her, harvard, yes, ever since she could crawl, i really wanted her to go there, much of the narrative about

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When Rory doesn't get an internship at the New York Times, her grandparents can't understand why they didn't accept her. This is absurd, who could be more qualified? than you, they were so sure that she would get her job that they were already planning to buy her an apartment in the city. Now we realize that the Upper East Side is not the most convenient address for a New York Times employee, but it is only a 20-minute cab ride to work, his grandparents also show a distinct lack of self-awareness. by suggesting that Rory's failure to land the role is due to nepotism.

I'm sure it's nepotism. If your name is not Keller or Salzburg, you better not do it. They even conveniently apply themselves to forgetting her own nepotism in helping Rory get into both Chilton and Yale. I thought I was helping my granddaughter get into what I believe is the best Ivy League school in America, meanwhile the no-nonsense Lorelei doesn't model this attitude of entitlement, but she has put a lot of pressure on Rory. by constantly underlining the specialness of her daughter and if you see a teenage girl walking around with a halo in a book, that's my daughter, both rory and lorelai are framed as the unusual mom best friend like many millennial parents. she has focused her own life on cultivating her daughter's education and individual success everything we worked for all these years her entire future was supposed to have more than me she was supposed to have everything gilmore

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begins with lorelai taking the decision to do what is best for her daughter and take advantage of the source of privilege that her parents represent.

I wasn't very proud to come here with you two asking for money for my children's school. The first season focuses on Rory entering a private school and cultivating a relationship with her rich wife. grandparents and we see her gradually become the person emily and richard wanted lorelei to be, hence emily's blind panic after finding out that rory and dean spent the night at miss paddy's house, she will get pregnant, no, no, no , she will ruin everything, just like you ruined everything. But who is this young model that they want Rory to be? She is someone who runs to them for help after she is arrested for stealing a yacht.

She came to see me. Lorelei. She told me what she wanted in her own words and it goes behind her mother's back. to pay for her college tuition I need money you need money for yourself you need money for Yale Does your mother know you're here? no this is my thing rory is caught between two ideals her hardworking self-sufficient mother who took a stand to make her own life, you support yourself, you don't depend on anyone and her extremely rich live-in grandparents who can open doors for Rory's goals are more easily achieved. This is the office of a very dear friend of mine, his name is.

Harris Fellowes and it turns out he's actually the dean of admissions, while Rory likes the narrative and self-made credit of her mother's journey. She often takes advantage of the privilege that her grandparents represent. I mean, I'm a gilmore. They know? but what makes all of this so toxic is his lack of awareness and unwillingness to look at her own behavior honestly, we accept you, we pay to redecorate a house with a pool so you can have a place of your own. I didn't ask you to do that. you accepted it you didn't reject it one notable millennial trait that defines rory is sensitivity to criticism he said i can't do it so i can't do it when lorelei tries to turn the new york times setback into a learning experience most of the things that you've gone through, you've suffered this setback might help you get some perspective, this isn't even really a criticism, but Rory clearly takes her mother's words that way and gets angry and there's a newspaper out there telling you. is going to hire as her future superstar, that's just a fact, yeah right, just as she takes job rejections intensely personally, I'll never get a job anyway, that's not true, you're going to get a job, I'm not the New York Times doesn't want me, it's It's worth remembering at this point that Rory's existential crisis comes after just two job rejections, one of which doesn't count because there was no job there in the first place.

I got a letter from the Chicago Sun Times, they're not hiring, not to mention. That Rory already turned down a job at the Providence Journal Bulletin presumably thinking she was destined for something better. I even called the Providence Journal Bulletin and begged them for that job, but they already gave it to someone else, a non-idiot who didn't think they were too good and they were turning it down, recent numbers say job seekers are needed more one hundred or 200 applications to get a job offer and often 10 to 20 applications to get even a single interview. Rory's refusal to adapt or understand the broader context and her petulant response to not being immediately praised by the country's major institutions betrays that her attitude has always been more what my grandparents would do than what my mother would do.

I thought I was so into those moments. She just said that she was. I'm not going to understand it because I was trying to be humble, but I wasn't that humble. Take the incident with the study tree, another strange example of Rory's entitlement when she gets irritated because someone else dares to sit next to a tree she claims as hers. this is my study tree, heck it's a study tree, the tree is big enough for two or even three people to sit on, but Rory finally decides to throw money into the situation to get what she wants, which unfortunately for Rory's personal growth it works.

Rory's main problem is not that she makes mistakes that everyone else makes, but that she refuses to learn from them. It is this intractability that is the reason she wanders aimlessly when she is in her 30s; She is simply waiting for more opportunities and more doors to open. magically open you basically promised me the job was mine you were a candidate looking back on gilmore

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the degree to which everyone reveres young rory can be a little disconcerting she is a very impressive young woman i totally agree she is a student Diligent but none of her accomplishments really set her apart Every kid who applies has the same high GPA They've taken the same AP classes and they're all on student council It's hard not to be skeptical of how just getting good grades gets her to so many ivy league schools or why she was chosen editor of the yale news journal after she recently took time off from yale um, i missed that semester, so seniority is an issue we no longer take into account. seniority, Rory's best friend, the ultra-motivated and extracurricular-obsessed one.

Paris behaves the way you'd expect Rory to behave if she were the super achiever, we're told, she's what the hell did Roma mean when she was talking about weeding out the overachievers in the interview process and stopped right before To call? I for one am losing control, Paris is trying hard and you could say that she is not rewarded enough for it. How am I going to tell her that I didn't get into Harvard, what am I going to do? Lydia then writes that Paris should have done it she was the valedictorian above Rory's quote she worked hard for four years she got perfect grades she was president of the student council editor of the newspaper and on every committee what else did she have to do in the meantime , Rory skated with a mix of intelligence privileges? general friendliness and a calm appearance you're calm you say sorry you look like little birds help you get dressed in the morning people aren't afraid of you but the post-recession world of a year in life seems to finally catch on it's up to her when rory finds out she's no longer rewarded for acting like she's above trying, don't get me wrong, i have ideas like um, things about world culture, rory has a pretty bad case of main character syndrome, she takes for granted that both her grandparents' life and of the mother should revolve around her she claims that her mother's life experiences are her story you are 16 years old you are pregnant you are packing to leave grandma's house it is a very rich rag story she has it all and she doesn't finds that valid lorelai is opposed to her intimate personal life being shared in a book i don't want my mother to find out i left you in a bucket in a hardware store in chapter six this is such an exaggerated reaction it's my life rory in the friendships of Rory also most of the The focus is on Rory's problems and Rory's life.

I've got to get thereto the bus stop. Dean will meet me there, but I'm trying to talk to you about this. What's the point of having a best friend when she's never around and never listens, but maybe? This entitlement of the main character is most egregious in Rory's love life throughout the series. She treats men quite pitifully and pits love interests against each other. She seems to view married and committed men as fair game because if they are exes, she considers them mine. his story he is not a married man he is a dean my dean he is not your dean he is lindsay's dean you are the other woman when she sleeps with her first boyfriend the dean now married she doesn't just blame the dean's wife Lindsay, she's no good for him, okay, let him quit school and work himself to death, but he also doesn't respect Dean's adult life because it's not the one Rory imagined for him.

Rory has always looked down on Dean for not being as academically inclined as her instead accepting that he's just interested in different things step forward Jess who does fit the mold of intelligence prescribed by Rory Gilmore in that he reads a lot of books You've read this before about 40 times, but Rory still makes sure to keep Dean close while making a decision and repeats this self-absorbed behavior of keeping her options on the table when she kisses Jess to get back together with Logan after rejecting Logan's proposal. Logan in a year in the life. Rory has slept with him again even though she is engaged.

Someone comes to town like Odette and she's dating Paul, while the joke is that Rory doesn't respect this person. Oh shit, Paul is here Why is Paul here? I invited him to dinner and completely forgot about it. Psychologist Stephanie Newman claims that one of the reasons women sleep with married men is because they crave competition and the need for superiority. She says feeling superior has less to do with it. with the man in question and how desirable he is and more to do with being more powerful and superior to the other woman. The callous and confusing way Rory treats the men in her life also reflects her characteristic millennial traits such as an emphasis on competition and self-fixation on why dating as a millennial is so fucked up.

Bold's Drea Rose writes that some of generations of bad dating habits include ghosting us as a way to end things. We are in a competition of who cares less. the perfection that does not exist we are overloaded with options we are always stuck in a gray area and we do not feel responsible for the pain we inflict on others Dean, you are my boyfriend, I would never do anything to hurt you, yes you are doing it right now the self-centeredness of rory may also be due to the fact that she is an only child. g stanley hall, a child psychologist who first theorized the idea of ​​only child syndrome, describes them as people with a tendency to be selfish and hypersensitive to criticism.

I never realized how bratty you were, Rory, but I guess that's to be expected. Only children are always spoiled. All of this speaks to a larger problem. Rory has to stop thinking about his relationships as just part of his story and start thinking more about how others feel he is. my life is our life yeah well write your version of it a year in the life begins with rory, 32 years old, the same age lorelei was at the beginning of the original series, hey, how old is your mom? 32. Lorelai was the teenage mother who everyone thought had ruined her life, but in reality she worked her way into the Independence Inn and made a life for herself.

I worked my way up, I run the place now, I built a life on my own without anyone's help, ironically, while Rory was around. She is supposed to be the golden girl, she has achieved much less than her mother at her age, this is partly because Rory has never had to fight or face the world alone. Rory has never been seriously tested, so she hasn't developed the resilient spirit that she herself has. Mom grew up out of necessity when she was a young single mother. We've seen previous signs of this lack of resilience in season 5. Logan's father tells Rory that he doesn't think she has what it takes to be a journalist.

I just don't think you really. you have the urge to put yourself out there to be honest, to get a story to investigate and that sends her into an existential tailspin that leaves Yale, all I've been doing is working to be a journalist, I'm not going to be one. a journalist, so what momentum am I losing exactly? But even this doesn't turn into an opportunity for Rory to really improve because she, instead of having to fend for herself, she can live a comfortable life in her grandparents' pool house. Hosanna Draw Rory Bath. please, hosanna has a cup of coffee for you in the other room interested wow, at 30 years old, rory is finally having the moment of reckoning that her mother had when she was just a teenager, she no longer realizes that the world bending to her will and her taking the time to discover her life, I feel like this is my time to uproot myself and just see where life takes me, the show starts to see her more critically and less as the princess of the hollow stars, but on the other hand we can empathize with her.

Rather, the fact that Rory is so stuck in her 30s is probably the most relatable she's ever been. I'm ruining my entire life, my career, I'm flailing around and I don't have a plan, a list or a clue, and now. that life has finally become difficult, forcing her to change just like lorelei did, one year in the life she prepared a complete circular journey for rory that is essentially about becoming her mother. The show's creator, Amy Sherman Palladino, has even said that the theme of the show. Taken after the opening song where you say that it's about history repeating itself and Rory follows Lorelei's lead as Lorelai Rory reveals that she's about to become a single mother, I'm pregnant and, although it's never explicitly stated, It appears that the baby's father is Logan, the immature and privileged heartthrob whom Sherman Palladino has compared to Rory's father Christopher, while her bombshell pregnancy would seem an indication that Rory's hopes for professional success will still be Most unlikely, the implication is that Rory will follow in her mother's footsteps to unlock her. resilience once she is finally put to the test, she will show the world and herself what she really has deepening her relationship with her mother is also the key to her deepest creativity as a writer I sat down and it just flew away, it's like the La story has been in my brain for years taking up space and the cure for Rory's main character syndrome will undoubtedly be motherhood, which will force her to stop seeing the world as if it only revolves around her, many of the problems of Rory as an adult they can be.

She is credited with the fact that she was a gifted child. Many gifted children struggle to reach their potential or feel enormous pressure later in life. They also tend to plan a career too early. Since then you have known what you wanted to do with your life. you were three being a journalist the national center for research on the gifted and talented explains that if an early career decision is made due to cognitive maturation without synchronous emotional maturation the gifted adolescent may not be able to consider long-term planning persistence and the self-sacrifice necessary to achieve the intended career goal if I hire you tell me what would rory gilmore write about for Sandy says oh if I worked here sell me then okay we're selling um like many millennials and young talented people rory needs to sit down and ask himself if the path that she marked herself at age 16 is still correct 16 years later, she's spent too much time moving towards the privileged, spoiled millennial who assumes everything will work out for her, so it's nice when it finally doesn't.

Moving into the Gilmore Girls house leaves us with a new definition of what counts as millennial success. Maybe career and relationships aren't going to take off for Rory, at least not right now, but she still has a real chance to find herself. in which they have been. college then in the real world and spit them out like stale gum and now they are all back in their old rooms like you, this is the version of your favorite movies and culture shows, thank you very much for watching and for supporting us, subscribe and don't miss anything.