Don't worry, Stefanie Preissner will help you understand millennials

Stefanie Preissner might rail against being cast as the official representative for her peer group, but Mallow’s favourite export has a lot to say about modern life, writes Ciara McDonnell.

Refer to Stefanie Preissner as the voice of her generation at your peril. The creator of television series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope and author of new book Why Can’t Everything Stay The Same, a searingly honest collection of personal essays says that to put her on a pedestal and call her a mouthpiece for Generation Millennial is both lazy and just plain wrong.

“It makes me really angry because the last thing our generation needs, is just one voice,” she tells me. “We are already generalised all over the place and to say that makes it too easy because I am just one voice — not all. I want to say ‘you have an obligation to talk to every person who is my age and ask them their opinion before you make a generalisation about what they think’.”