Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

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Can someone refresh me on all these terminologies and which era they belong to. I was born in the 70's so what am I?

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers are Boomers, gen x are Karens, and millennials are Cheugs. All of this is based on your perceived age and your behavior. There is nothing I, or you, can do to stop it.

This is true. Not sure what Gen Z will be but, for now, just really into talking about their mental health issues and tiktok.

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Anonymous wrote:You must have aged poorly.

The lonely troll with no friends is here!

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone refresh me on all these terminologies and which era they belong to. I was born in the 70's so what am I?

Google is what you use for this.

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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.

Both myself and my wife are boomers first marriage we have a 21,19 and 14 year old. Pretty normal

What?? That is not normal. My mom was a young Boomer (1957) and I am 41. So even if you were born around the time of my mom, you are really really old to have kids those ages. Even the youngest boomers are 60.

Okay, but your mother had you when she was like 20, which is super young to have a kid. So your viewpoint may be a bit skewed as well. I'm only a couple of years older than you and my mother is an old Boomer (1946).

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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.

Both myself and my wife are boomers first marriage we have a 21,19 and 14 year old. Pretty normal

What?? That is not normal. My mom was a young Boomer (1957) and I am 41. So even if you were born around the time of my mom, you are really really old to have kids those ages. Even the youngest boomers are 60.

+1. You may have done it but it’s definitely not normal to have a child in your mid-late 40s. I don’t know how it could be possible that, as pp said, most of the gen z kids she knows have boomer parents. The vast majority of gen z kids have gen x parents because most people have kids in their late 20s-early/mid 30s.

Not in NW DC. Elementary school parents are often in their 40s here.

Right but having an ES kid in your 40s is obviously different than having an infant at 46. Even for DC that is decidedly old.

I don’t know I was 50 when my daughter started kindergarten and I did not feel old at all. My buddy was 53 and he said a few 60 year old dads at kindergarten orientation although they were second marriages.

I mean unless you have rusty sperm not uncommon. Look Tony Randal. Alex Baldwin, Benjiman Franklin all had kids later in life. And Moms are joining the party. 50 year old Moms in preschool is now not uncommon

All of this is gross, self-indulgent behavior.

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OP, I would just ignore anyone who refers to Gen X as Boomers. Either they are ignorant people who don’t understand what “Boomer” is about, or they are children just looking to get a rise out of you. Neither are worth a second thought.

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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.

You are off by a lot. Currently boomers are 58-70 years old. A lot of boomers are pushing 70. And their kids are 40+.

Actually, you are off as well. My mother is the oldest of the boomers (1946) and she is 75.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone refresh me on all these terminologies and which era they belong to. I was born in the 70's so what am I?

GenX

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone refresh me on all these terminologies and which era they belong to. I was born in the 70's so what am I?

Not universally agreed upon, but:

Greatest Generation 1901 - 1927
Silent generation 1928-1945
Boomers 1945 - 1964
GenX 1965 - 1980
Millennial 1981 - 1996
GenZ 1997 - 2012.
Generation Alpha* 2013 - ??

*Not sure if Generation Alpha is going to stick. Looking at the Wikipedia on these things was the first time I'd encountered that designation.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone refresh me on all these terminologies and which era they belong to. I was born in the 70's so what am I?

Not universally agreed upon, but:

Greatest Generation 1901 - 1927
Silent generation 1928-1945
Boomers 1945 - 1964
GenX 1965 - 1980
Millennial 1981 - 1996
GenZ 1997 - 2012.
Generation Alpha* 2013 - ??

*Not sure if Generation Alpha is going to stick. Looking at the Wikipedia on these things was the first time I'd encountered that designation.

Might as well get the age ranges in here as well. With those dates, as of 2021, the age ranges for the generations would be

Greatest Generation: 94 to Dead
Silent Generation: 76 to 93
Boomers: 57 to 75
GenX: 41 to 56
Millennial: 25 to 40
GenZ: 9 - 24
Gen Alpha: 0 - 8.

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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.

I know a lot of Gen Z kids. They're nothing like this.

As a fellow Gen Xer, please stop with this nonsense, you're undermining the perception of resilience that is so important to our generation.

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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.

I know a lot of Gen Z kids. They're nothing like this.

As a fellow Gen Xer, please stop with this nonsense, you're undermining the perception of resilience that is so important to our generation.

GenX is the gristle in the muscle of America's body politic.

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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.

I know a lot of Gen Z kids. They're nothing like this.

As a fellow Gen Xer, please stop with this nonsense, you're undermining the perception of resilience that is so important to our generation.

+we are apathetic latchkey kids, dammit. We don’t care and we will keep posting about it!

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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.

Both myself and my wife are boomers first marriage we have a 21,19 and 14 year old. Pretty normal

What?? That is not normal. My mom was a young Boomer (1957) and I am 41. So even if you were born around the time of my mom, you are really really old to have kids those ages. Even the youngest boomers are 60.

Okay, but your mother had you when she was like 20, which is super young to have a kid. So your viewpoint may be a bit skewed as well. I'm only a couple of years older than you and my mother is an old Boomer (1946).

She was 23 and married. Not really that unusual back then. I was 26 and married when I had my first. People who have lived in DC too long have skewed perceptions of matneral ages at birth.