Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

[Anonymous]

Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

Most of the Gen Z kids you know have Boomer parents?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers.

I agree. I am not a boomer for this reason, also. Absolutely nothing in common. Having said that, all the shade millennials throw at boomers is inaccurate. They still have the wrong generation.

You don’t get to opt out of a generation simply because the generalizations about it are unflattering. If you were born in the time period that is apportioned to the Boomer generation, you are a Boomer, plain and simple. There’s so much special pleading in this thread, it’s ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

Most of the Gen Z kids you know have Boomer parents?

Agree that seems odd. I am a very young boomer, had kids in my 30s and they are both millennials. I have a few friends with Gen Z kids but not many - unless they are men with younger wives.

[Anonymous]

I'm early 50s, Gen X, and my Gen Z HS senior calls me a Boomer all the time, I've tried to tell her I'm Gen X, and she says "same thing". To them, we all look and act the same: old.

They will get their turn, too. Life moves fast. I tell my kids to be kind to their elders because what goes around can come back around.

The Millennial generation has missed a HUGE opportunity to change the negative perceptions around aging and being older. They dive right into to making fun of people over 50 and discard them without realizing that they are knocking on the door of receiving the same treatment. It will happen to them, too. So far, no generation has learned the lesson. Hot girl summer turns into old woman winter just like that [snap].

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers.

I was born in 78 so I'm Gen X but I don't feel that I have anything in common with someone born in 1957, either. The late 70's is definitely a micro-generation.

Agree. I’m 1980 and my mom was 1957. We are definitely not the same generation, but I think most of the generalization is silly anyway. I did read that article about the “Oregon Trail Generation” and that resonated with me the most. But I still think labeling fake generations is silly. They’ve supposedly split the next generation between my two kids born in 2008 and 2011. My kids are growing up in a pretty identical way. But they are a different generation because some website says so?

You are not the same generation as your mother, because she is a Boomer and you are GenX. There’s no such thing as Oregon Trail Generation, that’s just some people being special snowflakes, and I say that as someone born in 77 who would qualify for this ridiculous “micro generation “.

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Anonymous wrote:I explain to my kids that boomers have the big pensions and wildly inflated home equity. And they think they succeeded when they just worked regular jobs.

I’m in my 50s and don’t have a pension. I only know one of my friends who has a pension and she worked for a Japanese company. For many boomers pensions just aren’t a thing.

Home equity has inflated dramatically the last couple of years. That’s not limited to boomers at all.

Maybe consider explaining to your kids that stereotypes aren’t always helpful or accurate.

If you’re in your 50s you’re Gen X. But look around at your friends’ parents if not your own. They are the ones who have the houses in Avalon New Jersey or Rehoboth paid off and big pensions from being in sales at IBM or the like. College was affordable and they worked jobs like lifeguarding to pay for it. Sure there’s poor Boomers. But the whole point of these labels is to show trends. Boomers that are discussed here do have the big pensions from jobs that required only a four year degree from a state school and real estate was cheap.

Also, with respect to your discussion concerning stereotypes, the whole point of this thread is about generational stereotypes. So maybe you should sit this one out.

Moreover, if you’re in your fifties of course you are unlikely to have a pension. As a Gen Xer, you likely have a 401(k) and paid close to a million dollars for a red brick small colonial in Arlington that the boomers picked up in the 70s for around 100k.

Again, boomers are currently 56-59 years old (and older of course). So I don’t have a pension, I went to college and grad school with scholarships and loans, and in the 70s when people were buying houses for $100k I was in middle school and high school and definitely not investing in real estate on my $1/hour babysitting gigs. Same is true for my late 50s peers.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers.

I was born in 78 so I'm Gen X but I don't feel that I have anything in common with someone born in 1957, either. The late 70's is definitely a micro-generation.

Agree. I’m 1980 and my mom was 1957. We are definitely not the same generation, but I think most of the generalization is silly anyway. I did read that article about the “Oregon Trail Generation” and that resonated with me the most. But I still think labeling fake generations is silly. They’ve supposedly split the next generation between my two kids born in 2008 and 2011. My kids are growing up in a pretty identical way. But they are a different generation because some website says so?

You are not the same generation as your mother, because she is a Boomer and you are GenX. There’s no such thing as Oregon Trail Generation, that’s just some people being special snowflakes, and I say that as someone born in 77 who would qualify for this ridiculous “micro generation “.

DP. You don’t have to agree with the Oregon Trail Generation concept, but there is a reason those birth years bounced between Gen Z and Millennials for so long before consensus formed around putting them in Gen X (which some people still disagree with).

[Anonymous]

Gen Z has boomer parents????what the F!

[Anonymous]

I’m a poor Euro born gen X. Do is a poor born American gen X.
We don’t care at all about appearances. My lost gen FIL 1943, on the other hand is more like a boomer. Appearances are everything. I think these Millennials see themselves in boomers, status and mansions obsessed people.
Btw, when I say born poor I mean born poor, not like most dcum born with parents only earning half a mil a year.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers.

I was born in 78 so I'm Gen X but I don't feel that I have anything in common with someone born in 1957, either. The late 70's is definitely a micro-generation.

Agree. I’m 1980 and my mom was 1957. We are definitely not the same generation, but I think most of the generalization is silly anyway. I did read that article about the “Oregon Trail Generation” and that resonated with me the most. But I still think labeling fake generations is silly. They’ve supposedly split the next generation between my two kids born in 2008 and 2011. My kids are growing up in a pretty identical way. But they are a different generation because some website says so?

You are not the same generation as your mother, because she is a Boomer and you are GenX. There’s no such thing as Oregon Trail Generation, that’s just some people being special snowflakes, and I say that as someone born in 77 who would qualify for this ridiculous “micro generation “.

DP. You don’t have to agree with the Oregon Trail Generation concept, but there is a reason those birth years bounced between Gen Z and Millennials for so long before consensus formed around putting them in Gen X (which some people still disagree with).

+1. A lot of the Millenial characteristics ascribed to them have to do with being digital natives. That doesn't really apply to that microgeneration who had analog childhoods and digital adolescence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm early 50s, Gen X, and my Gen Z HS senior calls me a Boomer all the time, I've tried to tell her I'm Gen X, and she says "same thing". To them, we all look and act the same: old.

They will get their turn, too. Life moves fast. I tell my kids to be kind to their elders because what goes around can come back around.

The Millennial generation has missed a HUGE opportunity to change the negative perceptions around aging and being older. They dive right into to making fun of people over 50 and discard them without realizing that they are knocking on the door of receiving the same treatment. It will happen to them, too. So far, no generation has learned the lesson. Hot girl summer turns into old woman winter just like that [snap].

When you screw over the younger generation you get what you deserve

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers.

Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers.

I was born in 78 so I'm Gen X but I don't feel that I have anything in common with someone born in 1957, either. The late 70's is definitely a micro-generation.

I was born in 1974 and one of my best friends was born in 1985 . I definitely have more stuff in common with her than someone born in 1957.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gen Z is awesome. I hear the perennial b*tch*ng about "kids these days," and think to myself that I have no objections to how my kids and their peers conduct themselves. (Other than the normal nonsense that young people have always gotten up to.)

Jen Z is bitterly screwed up. They have lost the ability to evaluate evidence and simply repeat whatever is trending on their preferred social media. Bunch of green-haired zombie children who will screw anything that moves and waste their lives going down rabbit holes to find the perfect bizarre subculture for their Tick Tock presence. I am the Gen X parent of an undergrad who also works with undergrads and I am devastated that the kids are so deeply not alright. Most of these freaks have Boomer parents whose own disturbed behavior normalized depravity and led to this disaster. If the human race survives another generation it will be a miracle.

Most of the Gen Z kids you know have Boomer parents?

This is common in NW DC. Many of the people I know who have college kids were older parents. Mothers can easily be 55+ and the fathers are often 60+. The oldest Gen Z kids are often the kids of the youngest Boomers.