Ever notice how no one ever complains about Gen X?

[Anonymous]

eh, we're all in our 30s and 40s, right? our parents have come to depend on us, and our kids are too little to complain about us, for the most part. gen X slackers got plenty of hate 20 years ago. I'm not sure how the disaffected slackers all became helicopter parents? maybe because these labels are all bullshit?

but in fifteen years, no one will be complaining about the millenials because they'll be the grownups in positions of authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:eh, we're all in our 30s and 40s, right? our parents have come to depend on us, and our kids are too little to complain about us, for the most part. gen X slackers got plenty of hate 20 years ago. I'm not sure how the disaffected slackers all became helicopter parents? maybe because these labels are all bullshit?

but in fifteen years, no one will be complaining about the millenials because they'll be the grownups in positions of authority.

Gen Xers are mostly in their 40s at this point, with smaller 30s & 50s contingents on the youngest & oldest ends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:eh, we're all in our 30s and 40s, right? our parents have come to depend on us, and our kids are too little to complain about us, for the most part. gen X slackers got plenty of hate 20 years ago. I'm not sure how the disaffected slackers all became helicopter parents? maybe because these labels are all bullshit?

but in fifteen years, no one will be complaining about the millenials because they'll be the grownups in positions of authority.

Gen Xers are mostly in their 40s at this point, with smaller 30s & 50s contingents on the youngest & oldest ends.

And a decent sized portion of millennials are already in their 30s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:eh, we're all in our 30s and 40s, right? our parents have come to depend on us, and our kids are too little to complain about us, for the most part. gen X slackers got plenty of hate 20 years ago. I'm not sure how the disaffected slackers all became helicopter parents? maybe because these labels are all bullshit?

but in fifteen years, no one will be complaining about the millenials because they'll be the grownups in positions of authority.

A lot of older Xers' kids are now in their 20s, so they are plenty old enough to complain!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reality Bites was commentary on the slacker, entitled Gen X.

Meh. This was the best Generation X movie:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reality Bites was commentary on the slacker, entitled Gen X.

Meh. This was the best Generation X movie:

That movie was released when many Xers were the right age for it & they were probably its target audience but it wasn't about Generation X. It took place in 1976 so the characters were younger boomers, not Xers, & it was focused on the time period in which younger boomers, not Xers, came of age.

[Anonymous]

The middle child of generations.
Ignored, a little quirky and weird, but also adults now so we outgrew being too quirky.

[Anonymous]

Xers were Breakfast Club, Saint Elmo's Fire, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller (forgive the spelling), Pretty in Pink....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Xers were Breakfast Club, Saint Elmo's Fire, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller (forgive the spelling), Pretty in Pink....

Older Xers were.

Middle Xers were Reality Bites.

Younger Xers were Clueless (the movie, not the adjective!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Xers were Breakfast Club, Saint Elmo's Fire, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller (forgive the spelling), Pretty in Pink....

Older Xers were.

Middle Xers were Reality Bites.

Younger Xers were Clueless (the movie, not the adjective!).

I've always thought of Clueless as being the beginning of the Millennials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reality Bites was commentary on the slacker, entitled Gen X.

Meh. This was the best Generation X movie:

Not Gen Xer's, young Baby Boomers, those boon late 1950's to early 1960's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of those in the position to complain are GenXers .

They certainly won't complain about themselves, instead they complain about the other generations.

Similar to how the greatest generation and the boomers complained about them.

Give it about 10 to 15 years as there is a generational power shift again and you'll start to hear about your flaws.

I complain about my own generation, mostly how they suck as parents as evidenced by the shit-kids my kids go to school with: no rules at home, no manners, no respect, no sense of personal accountability...... Sorry.

[Anonymous]

No one talks about you anymore because you're a boring disappointment as a generations, sandwiched between two powerhouse innovative generations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Xers were Breakfast Club, Saint Elmo's Fire, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller (forgive the spelling), Pretty in Pink....

I agree with these movies even though most of the stars of these movies are boomers, except Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. I'm 50, at the top of the Gen X, and John Hughes movies were our guiding stars.

I think people don't complain about us as much simply because there aren't that many Gen Xers compared to other cohorts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen Xer here. I'm a college professor. Many of my students were raised by Gen X parents, and I meet these parents at events for prospective students. Helicopter parenting doesn't begin to describe what they do.

Snowplow parenting is more like it. Our deans have to remind us not to answer their calls complaining about grades.

Although I agree that we're a self sufficient generation, many of us are raising helpless kids who are far less confident and competent than we were.

I take it as a wake-up call for me as a parent.

It's hard not to do for my child what I wish I had been done for me. There's a line though, and god help me if I ever consider calling one of his professors when he goes to college!