Ever notice how no one ever complains about Gen X?

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The Greatest Generation 1910 1925
The Silent Generation 1923 1944
Baby Boomers 1945 1964
Generation X 1961 1981
Millennials 1975 1995
Generation Z 1995 2015

I was born in 1977. So I am both a Gen Xer and a Millennial? Yeah, no. #NeverMillennial

The millennial generation starts in 1980.

[Anonymous]

I chose millennial because it garners more respect from my millennial constituents. Gen x is lame

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

We also had the best music, best movies, Terminator, Alien, Jurassic Park... We traveled all over the world, we lived. I think it is the younger Gen X that messed up, I am an early Gen X geezer.

The best music belonged to the Boomers. Hands down.

Hell no. , Electronic music is the best which is gen x and millennial

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X). Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation. What happened?

Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough. The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced the generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.

That's probably right. Not sure I'm Generation X, though: I was born in 1980.

I've heard differing things about at what birth year exactly Gen X ends & the millennial generation begins. Some say it's 1980, others say 82 &, before the term "millennials" was coined, Gen X was supposed to end in 1977 (those born after '77 --or maybe it was in "77 or later -- were called "Gen Y" back then). I've also read a couple of articles that claim those of us born between roughly 1976 & 1982 don't really fit in with either generation & are kind of our own micro-generation. So who knows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

The Greatest Generation 1910 1925
The Silent Generation 1923 1944
Baby Boomers 1945 1964
Generation X 1961 1981
Millennials 1975 1995
Generation Z 1995 2015

I was born in 1977. So I am both a Gen Xer and a Millennial? Yeah, no. #NeverMillennial

The millennial generation starts in 1980.

I thought it was 1982 because those born in that year or later "came of age" (aka turned 18) in 2000 or later.

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The last few posts kind of show how arbitrary the labeling of generations is. If a generation has hard & fast start & end dates according to birth years , then 2 people born one second apart could be in different generations while two other people 10-15+ years apart in age are in the same generation. Kind of silly, imo.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't ever remember the start and end dates for the specific generations.
There sure is a lot of discussion on DCUM about it.


I just looked it all up. Here is a chart I found:

The Greatest Generation 1910 1925
The Silent Generation 1923 1944
Baby Boomers 1945 1964
Generation X 1961 1981
Millennials 1975 1995
Generation Z 1995 2015

If you were born in the years that are listed as overlapping years here, or in the years close to those border years, do you feel more a part of one or the other generation?

I was born in one of those in between years and one of my kids was, also. I don't really feel part of either generation. My child hasn't really thought about it much yet, but I wonder what he'll think when he's older.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/signs-youre-stuck-between-gen-x-and-millennials?utm_term=.ld33QWqE8#.og33PV0qG

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Anonymous wrote:The last few posts kind of show how arbitrary the labeling of generations is. If a generation has hard & fast start & end dates according to birth years , then 2 people born one second apart could be in different generations while two other people 10-15+ years apart in age are in the same generation. Kind of silly, imo.

Yep. Technically my brothers (born in 78 & 79) are in the same generation as our youngest aunts (born in 64 & 65) but a different generation than my sister & I (born in 82 & 83). But the world they came of age in had A LOT more in common with the one my sister & I came of age in than the one our aunts came of age in!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

We also had the best music, best movies, Terminator, Alien, Jurassic Park... We traveled all over the world, we lived. I think it is the younger Gen X that messed up, I am an early Gen X geezer.

The best music belonged to the Boomers. Hands down.

But, as with the music of every generation, only the best boomer music lived on to be heard by Xers & millennials. There was probably a whole lot of crap that got played on the airwaves in the 60s & 70s that we never heard because it didn't have the staying power of ,say, the Rolling Stones or the Beatles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X). Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation. What happened?

Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough. The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced the generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.

That's probably right. Not sure I'm Generation X, though: I was born in 1980.

I've heard differing things about at what birth year exactly Gen X ends & the millennial generation begins. Some say it's 1980, others say 82 &, before the term "millennials" was coined, Gen X was supposed to end in 1977 (those born after '77 --or maybe it was in "77 or later -- were called "Gen Y" back then). I've also read a couple of articles that claim those of us born between roughly 1976 & 1982 don't really fit in with either generation & are kind of our own micro-generation. So who knows.

According to Pew Research, Gen X is 1965-76 & Gen Y is 77-92, which is different from the dates I've always heard (Gen X =1964-81, Gen Y/ Millennial =1982-95ish). So, yeah, who really knows?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X). Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation. What happened?

Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough. The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced the generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.

Wrong. The "slacker generation" is Gen X, not "your parents and grandparents [sic] generation." Please figure out what people are talking about before posting ignorant rants.

I completely disagree. DH and I are both Gen X, he is the hardest worker ever, and I work just as hard. We have worked and accumulated more than our parents, baby boomers, and I can see that we will have more than our Millennial kids will ever have. Baby Boomer parents all worked a lot too, but didn't have much drive to advance and seemed content with ok jobs and average houses and such. I have to admit that looking at how much we worked and still work, I am at fault for my lazy millennial kids. One part of it is both DH and I provide too much for them and enable them to be lazy and entitled. Baby boomer parents never did any of that for us, even if that was for selfish reason, that made us hard workers and earn everything we have. There is a group of wealthy Gen X that brought on the "all about me" culture and while they couldn't quite enjoy it as they had to work, they introduced it to millennials with vengeance. In my opinion, it is a paradox that we created, we worked hard and often failed to install the same work ethic to our kids.

Huh. I know a lot more baby boomers who ended up far better off financially than their parents than I do Gen Xers. But maybe that's because I mostly know older Boomers (born in late 40s/early 50s) who bought homes & had kids before housing & higher education costs started far outpacing pay inflation & younger Xers (born in the late 70s) who were too young to really benefit from the strong economy/tech bubble of the late 90s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Latch key kids, we were responsible, still got spanked when I talked back, and wasn't treated as a "special snowflake" nor had helicopter parents. I think I turned out ok.

Former latchkeys that now want people arrested for leaving their 10 year old alone while they make a quick trip.

Yes -- because we hated it and don't want people to do that to their children!

No way. No self respecting former latchkey kid is going to report someone else just for leaving their own kid home alone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

so says the millenial. agree, gen-xers are perfect. 1971 baby!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because we are perfect.

Hardly.

You are the ones responsible for the start of this over the top helicopter stlyle parenting that has been on the rise the last 10 years.[b]

You are the ones who want a law and a ban on everything under the sun.

Future generations are going to love you.

I actually know quite a few baby boomers who were/are helicopter parents.It's mostly the boomers who either had kids later in life or who were themselves born towards the end of the baby boom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Latch key kids, we were responsible, still got spanked when I talked back, and wasn't treated as a "special snowflake" nor had helicopter parents. I think I turned out ok.

Former latchkeys that now want people arrested for leaving their 10 year old alone while they make a quick trip.

Yes -- because we hated it and don't want people to do that to their children!

No way. No self respecting former latchkey kid is going to report someone else just for leaving their own kid home alone.

I know some who would. Their defense is that "times are different!" Um, yeah, it's SAFER now than it was when you were a kid!