Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

Millennials don't beginning until 1980 at the very earliest and 1983 at the latest. 1975 is still solidly X

Above list does not differentiate enough between groups.
I call anyone over 35 yo = BOOMERS. Culturally, they are similar.
They include Gen X and Millennials born by 1985. Physiologically most are old enough to be in similar stage of life. For example, they are old enough to have a kid starting college. Also they are retired or planning/talking about it.

There’s that lack of a fully developed frontal lobe.

I know, it stings when the younger generation thinks you are lame.

Oh sweetie, no one cares what ignorant people think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

Millennials don't beginning until 1980 at the very earliest and 1983 at the latest. 1975 is still solidly X

Above list does not differentiate enough between groups.
I call anyone over 35 yo = BOOMERS. Culturally, they are similar.
They include Gen X and Millennials born by 1985. Physiologically most are old enough to be in similar stage of life. For example, they are old enough to have a kid starting college. Also they are retired or planning/talking about it.

There’s that lack of a fully developed frontal lobe.

I know, it stings when the younger generation thinks you are lame.

Oh sweetie, no one cares what ignorant people think.

You can call them whatever you want, but that doesn't make it correct.

[Anonymous]

My kids lump anyone born pre 2000 as old as dirt.

Remember 1990s, 2000s and 2010s are three oldies channel on my XM radio.

Gen X gets lost as accomplished zero. I think Gen Z has much more on common with Boomers than the other two groups. ,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

Millennials don't beginning until 1980 at the very earliest and 1983 at the latest. 1975 is still solidly X

Above list does not differentiate enough between groups.
I call anyone over 35 yo = BOOMERS. Culturally, they are similar.
They include Gen X and Millennials born by 1985. Physiologically most are old enough to be in similar stage of life. For example, they are old enough to have a kid starting college. Also they are retired or planning/talking about it.

There’s that lack of a fully developed frontal lobe.

I know, it stings when the younger generation thinks you are lame.

It really doesn’t. I found turning 40 to be remarkably freeing in part because I no longer felt any pressure to think/act/look “young.” In my 30s, I felt a lot of pressure to still be able to pass for 20s so I wouldn’t be “old.” But the day I turned 40, not only did I stop caring, but it felt affirmatively silly to try to fit in with people in their 20s. I appreciate them when I encounter a promising new hire at work or a store worker who provides good customer service, but I don’t particularly care what they think of me (which doesn’t mean I am rude or disrespectful to them, I am simply unconcerned with whether they think I’m old).

My 40s are awesome. I am fit and healthy, and my body does everything I want it to do. I kick ass at work because I really know what I’m doing in a way you simply can’t when you don’t have a lot of experience. I have a spouse I don’t have to worry about impressing anymore because we’ve seen each other at our best and worst, and have a deep trust and faith in each other that you can only develop over time (and that you can’t really imagine when you’re young and haven’t had a relationship that lasted more than a few years yet). Hopefully you’ll get here too someday, but unfortunately you’ll have to wait a bit longer because you’re not old enough yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

Millennials don't beginning until 1980 at the very earliest and 1983 at the latest. 1975 is still solidly X

Above list does not differentiate enough between groups.
I call anyone over 35 yo = BOOMERS. Culturally, they are similar.
They include Gen X and Millennials born by 1985. Physiologically most are old enough to be in similar stage of life. For example, they are old enough to have a kid starting college. Also they are retired or planning/talking about it.

There’s that lack of a fully developed frontal lobe.

I know, it stings when the younger generation thinks you are lame.

It really doesn’t. I found turning 40 to be remarkably freeing in part because I no longer felt any pressure to think/act/look “young.” In my 30s, I felt a lot of pressure to still be able to pass for 20s so I wouldn’t be “old.” But the day I turned 40, not only did I stop caring, but it felt affirmatively silly to try to fit in with people in their 20s. I appreciate them when I encounter a promising new hire at work or a store worker who provides good customer service, but I don’t particularly care what they think of me (which doesn’t mean I am rude or disrespectful to them, I am simply unconcerned with whether they think I’m old).

My 40s are awesome. I am fit and healthy, and my body does everything I want it to do. I kick ass at work because I really know what I’m doing in a way you simply can’t when you don’t have a lot of experience. I have a spouse I don’t have to worry about impressing anymore because we’ve seen each other at our best and worst, and have a deep trust and faith in each other that you can only develop over time (and that you can’t really imagine when you’re young and haven’t had a relationship that lasted more than a few years yet). Hopefully you’ll get here too someday, but unfortunately you’ll have to wait a bit longer because you’re not old enough yet.

I don’t think that PP is actually young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these the same young women wasting their prime high, tight a$$ years wearing frumpy, baggy jeans?

If so, bwahahahahaha. Morons.

At least when I look back on my photos of me in my 20s during my prime bangin' body years, I'm wearing jeans like this



instead of this...

I remember wearing outfits similar to the second photo in middle school, except our jeans were more fitted.

But let’s get real, every generation today is heavier than their counterparts from 20 years ago. Too many of today’s 20-something couldn’t fit into our jeans from our 20s and really shouldn’t try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these the same young women wasting their prime high, tight a$$ years wearing frumpy, baggy jeans?

If so, bwahahahahaha. Morons.

At least when I look back on my photos of me in my 20s during my prime bangin' body years, I'm wearing jeans like this



instead of this...

I remember wearing outfits similar to the second photo in middle school, except our jeans were more fitted.

But let’s get real, every generation today is heavier than their counterparts from 20 years ago. Too many of today’s 20-something couldn’t fit into our jeans from our 20s and really shouldn’t try.

So true. It’s crazy how this has happened in a single generation. The vast majority of my teen DD’s friends weigh significantly more than I do (and she does.)

[Anonymous]

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Bet you had the matching tramp stamp too.

There aren't a lot of pics of us in those jeans because we didn't have cell phones with cameras. We had to get film developed.
I'll take that any day over my 20s splashed all over myspace

[Anonymous]

Wait what is this "show your ass" stuff? What does that even mean? I assumed the posters who wrote it were drunk, no?

[Anonymous]

My teen sons call us this. It’s a running joke in our family. We give them crap back.

I could care less. My parents were Silent generation. My two siblings and I are GenX. My nephews are Millenials and Gen Y.

We have only have one true boomer (on the young side), my BIL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are young and think everyone over 40 is REALLY old. Embrace it. We were young once too and thought 30 was old. Enjoy being the Gen X Boomer.

Millennials are over 40 too now

Not quite. Even by the most generous cutoff the oldest millennial would be 40 this year. (And many consider the millennial generation to start in 1983 or 1984)

1981 is the beginning of millennial. They are 40 for sure

Surprise! Older boomers had their kids in the 1970s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids lump anyone born pre 2000 as old as dirt.

Remember 1990s, 2000s and 2010s are three oldies channel on my XM radio.

Gen X gets lost as accomplished zero. I think Gen Z has much more on common with Boomers than the other two groups. ,

Amazon was made by a GenXer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1927-1946 silent, (early cohort the "greatest generation")
1946-1965 Baby Boomers
1965-1975 Generation X
1975-1995 Millennials
1995 -- Generation Z

All this is nonsense, but that's how Tom Brokaw & other mainstream media pundits classify us.

I think that’s pretty accurate. Some blurring along the edges depending on the age of parents religion and so on. But generally pretty accurate.

[Anonymous]

39 to 54 year olds. Growing up, we were called the “latchkey generation” as they often left unsupervised after school and thus given greater independence by being home alone. Domestic lives were characterized by dual-income, nuclear families with divorce rates on the rise among the baby boomers.

All the best teen movies were about our Generation. Thank you John Hughes. And, the high school parties were as wild as depicted. Fantastic to not have social media or be attached to an iPhone where you were tracked and helicoptered.

No life altering wars or pandemics. It was the best time to grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait what is this "show your ass" stuff? What does that even mean? I assumed the posters who wrote it were drunk, no?

It’s southern slang for making a fool of yourself by showing your own ignorance without realizing it. Imagine a southern deb all dressed up and thinking herself superior to everyone else, then she turns around and you see the back of her dress is caught in her underwear/tights so her ass is showing.