Why does the younger DCUM majority hate Boomers so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone hates baby boomers - they've had their time why don't they shut up already.

Ha ha! We're not going to shut up! Deal with it.

Hey boomers, we just don't dig what you all say. Why don't you all just f-f-f-ade away.

[Anonymous]

Wow. If anyone thinks that there is no discrimination against older people in this country they should read this thread to see all the hatred against an older generation. I had no idea!

[Anonymous]

PP again. Try substituting "women" or "blacks" or "gays" or "immigrants" for some of these comments about baby boomers and see how they sound. This is prejudice pure and simple. I didn't realize it was so permissible against older people.

[Anonymous]

I am a person on the young side of the baby boomers (55). To generalize, I would say the boomers who are 10+ years older than I am can be problematic. Again, to generalize, they think in terms of right and wrong and they tend to think they are always right!
I still work, help with my Grandkids when I can and don't have an opinion about how they are being raised. I am not needy. I am busy, but I cherish every minute I have with my kids and Grandkids.
I think young parents today have it rough. I worked p/t and my circle of friends all helped each other. Today, 2 incomes are necessary in many cases and the world is very competitive. They don't have the benefits or job security we had. Many times they do the work of 2 people and are not compensated accordingly. A masters degree is the same as what a bachelors degree was when we were starting out. Young parents have student loans. In short, they are under a great deal of stress.
Baby boomers need to stop being boorish assholes (the only thing that is permanent in life is change...it's NOT all about you). Young parents should NEVER be disrespectful to their parents.
Group hug to all young parents! Been there, done that.....it's not easy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP again. Try substituting "women" or "blacks" or "gays" or "immigrants" for some of these comments about baby boomers and see how they sound. This is prejudice pure and simple. I didn't realize it was so permissible against older people.

Yep, attributing the characteristics of some members of a group to *all* members of a group is pretty much in line with being a bigot. Or at least stupid and ill-informed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone hates baby boomers - they've had their time why don't they shut up already.

Ha ha! We're not going to shut up! Deal with it.

Hey boomers, we just don't dig what you all say. Why don't you all just f-f-f-ade away.

Ha ha! Good luck with that!

[Anonymous]

I'm 56 and my husband is 57, baby boomers both of us. Both our sets of parents divorced when we were young and re-married, some multiple times. We have had six step-parents and 15 step siblings between us. No one paid much attention to us growing up. We went through college with lots of jobs, loans, and a little help from our grandparents. When we had our own children, our parents did not help out of baby-sit. They were too busy with their own messed up lives. When our parents got old, we ended up partially supporting some of them because they had been financially irresponsible. Thank goodness they had social security and in some cases small pensions. Because they were all divorced, they didn't look out for or take care of each other, so we had to take care of each of our parents separately. If they had stayed married then maybe the healthier one could have at least helped take care of the less healthy one.

Our children, millenials born in the mid and late 1980s, were raised in a stable home with two parents. We paid all their tuition and room and board for college, although we expected them to earn their own spending money through summer and occasionally term-time jobs. We helped them move to college and helped them move many times (something our parents never did for us: I was given a bus ticket and put on the bus with my suitcase). I signed lease guarantees for my children, something my parents never would have done for me. (I asked once when I was young and they said no.) I helped my children with their resumes and coached them through job hunting, something no parent ever did for me. I have also saved enough money for my own retirement so they will not need to financially contribute when I get old and sick.

Which generation had it bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Is this just a case of younger generations thinking they have the answers and resenting their parents' ways...

The Boomers are not the parents of Generation X.

My parents are boomers, and I am gen x. The boomer generation spans a lot of years.

My parents are not boomers (Elvis fans, not Beatles) and I am solid Gen X (Reality Bites!)

[Anonymous]

The Beatles are so boring.

[Anonymous]

Wait for it.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of pathetic stereotypes. Those of us born at the tail end of boomers in the early 1960s are often still raising teens, dealing with aging parents, worried that we'll be the first to be laid off because we are now over 50 and never find another job, and can't imagine how we'll be able to afford to retire (so you Milleninals can ascend to your "rightful" place) .

I admire many things about the older boomers who helped pave the way for women in the workplace, pushed for environmental reforms (Clean Air Act anyone?), and performed truly great music (thank you Stones, Joni Mitchell and CSN).

So stop all the hate and be glad you're not as wrinkled as us yet!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 56 and my husband is 57, baby boomers both of us. Both our sets of parents divorced when we were young and re-married, some multiple times. We have had six step-parents and 15 step siblings between us. No one paid much attention to us growing up. We went through college with lots of jobs, loans, and a little help from our grandparents. When we had our own children, our parents did not help out of baby-sit. They were too busy with their own messed up lives. When our parents got old, we ended up partially supporting some of them because they had been financially irresponsible. Thank goodness they had social security and in some cases small pensions. Because they were all divorced, they didn't look out for or take care of each other, so we had to take care of each of our parents separately. If they had stayed married then maybe the healthier one could have at least helped take care of the less healthy one.

Our children, millenials born in the mid and late 1980s, were raised in a stable home with two parents. We paid all their tuition and room and board for college, although we expected them to earn their own spending money through summer and occasionally term-time jobs. We helped them move to college and helped them move many times (something our parents never did for us: I was given a bus ticket and put on the bus with my suitcase). I signed lease guarantees for my children, something my parents never would have done for me. (I asked once when I was young and they said no.) I helped my children with their resumes and coached them through job hunting, something no parent ever did for me. I have also saved enough money for my own retirement so they will not need to financially contribute when I get old and sick.

Which generation had it bad?

18:36 here. Are you serious? You sound like you see yourself as RIGHT. Slam dunk.
So your take is....look how bad I had it....my bad is worse than your bad.
Where do I start saying how insensitive, clueless and unaware your thinking is? I am your same age and I wish you would disappear. Do you think you lead by example? Are you a person any living thing would look up to?
You are a miserable human being and you sound like you bring a deficit to the world around you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because the subsequent generations are paying for the mistakes of the Boomers. And the Boomers were handed a pretty awesome deal by the Greatest Generation. Yet screwed it up. Big time.

This exactly. The Boomers are the most selfish generation of our time. What makes it so despicable for me is that they are the ones who hate the hardest on Millenials.

possibly because in so many cases (not all), they are tired of hearing the whining, overly entitled, selfish mewling of Millenials and Gen Xers who have trouble living independent lives in their late 20s and 30s. In some cases this is the fault of helicopter parents who are horrible (IMO)... in others it seems to be a societal thing where young adults seem to have trouble acting their age and making decisions for themselves and taking responsibility for their own choices.

not saying this to hate on anyone, just reflect what I have seen in real life ...

[Anonymous]

NP here -- 18:36/20:01 are YOU serious? That's a bit harsh. I see nothing in 19:11's post that warranted such a hateful response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP again. Try substituting "women" or "blacks" or "gays" or "immigrants" for some of these comments about baby boomers and see how they sound. This is prejudice pure and simple. I didn't realize it was so permissible against older people.

Oh, please. We hated you when we were 15 and you were 35