"Basically, it's not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it's that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older."

Rebecca Mead writes:"Her experience [in Italy] is not so different from that of many young American women now, caught in a post-post-feminist narrative in which it is proposed that sexual emancipation may be achieved through emotional disengagement. Whatever light “Waiting to Be Heard” does or does not shed on the awful death of Meredith Kercher, it offers a dispiriting account of prevailing mores. It is not new for students to “give casual sex a chance.”... It is new for girls to strive to adopt the sexual behavior of the most opportunistic guy on campus."