Being married to someone from the Millennial generation has created some specific challenges, particularly given my Gen-X background and their tendency to reject labels while simultaneously embracing them. There’s also this apparent lack of understanding when it comes to satire or dark humor, a characteristic I've noticed in that age group. And then there’s the fact that my generation largely raised itself, whereas I now find myself explaining things like proper laundry techniques—separating colors from whites. It’s difficult to get them interested in anything released before roughly four years ago; it seems to be a generational quirk. This strikes me as odd since I was born after many of the films they dismiss and enjoy movies that are decades older than me...it's usually the newer ones I dislike. I had to really work at it, begging and pleading until I convinced them to watch *Blazing Saddles*, using the fact that I’d previously forced my wife to view *Young Frankenstein* as leverage—she actually enjoyed it. The movie only lasted about ten minutes before they started expressing discomfort with the racial elements. Despite their initial reaction, she and her friends stuck around until the end, at which point they were visibly upset about racism, almost as if I had put them through *Birth of a Nation*. Mel Brooks apparently went completely over their heads... I can’t recall anything like that ever happening before—ever, in all of history, I'm fairly certain it has never occurred. So there I was, with an angry wife and two equally upset friends, essentially accusing me of being William Luther Pierce. I remain baffled by the whole situation; something went terribly wrong. Isn’t this movie supposed to satirize racism? Doesn’t it aim to make a joke out of it so that people can't take it seriously anymore, portraying anyone in a white robe as foolish—a complete idiot? And yet their reaction suggested quite the opposite. Consequently, I spent some time sleeping on the couch while I slowly tried to explain that the movie was actually against racism, that Mel Brooks is not racist, and that it promotes equality. I'm still very perplexed by how things unfolded. I simply don’t understand what happened.

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