If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

You can't possibly be saying that the Brat Pack weren't Xers? They were the poster children of generation X.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Born in ‘63 and don’t feel part of either the Boomers or GenXers. Parents are Greatest Generation and we lived in a large city.

Why don't you feel like an Xer?

Don’t know exactly. I didn’t like the music/movies/TV (culture?) of the GenXers when we were growing up. I preferred the late 60s/ early 70s stuff. But we were latchkey and my mom always worked - no Leave It To Beaver! I was more optimistic and less cynical than many of my college friends but I am in an IT sector that didn’t even exist when the mid-Boomers joined the workforce. So don’t fit and that’s fine with me.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1959. The charts say I am a boomer, so I guess I am a boomer.

I was 4 when Kennedy was shot. I don't remember anything about it. While Vietnam was intensely going on, I was learning to ride my bike without training wheels. Of course I heard about Vietnam, but Gomer Pyle was on TV and he seemed pretty happy. That Woodstock thing? I first learned about it by listening to a Joni Mitchell song on the radio years afterward. When the astronauts landed on the moon, my mom made me come in from playing outside to watch and I was pretty cranky with her about it because I had been having a good time playing.

I vaguely remember TV shows going from black and white to color.

I suppose I have boomer influences as well. Growing up, girls were expected to learn to cook and raise children and clean house. Going to college was a "waste of money to spend on a woman." A young woman could learn a trade such as secretarial or teaching or nursing, but she was expected to quit working once she got married and started putting that uterus to work. As a teen and young adult, I assumed that there would always be factory jobs that would pay well. Assembling tricycles, working at the Frito factory, working at the air conditioner factory, etc.

You were supposed to try to remain a virgin until marriage. Living together before marriage was a sin.

I used to read the teen magazines back when I was, well, a teen. The magazine articles said that teen boys have fragile egos and a teen girl should never win at tennis or chess with a teen boy.

Birth control pills came along when I was a teen and that just absolutely revolutionized everything. Now, it is accepted as a completely normal thing that two people can have sex with each other without it resulting in a baby.

Birth control pills came along in the early 60's when you were a preschooler, not in high school. And if you were in HS in the 70's, no one was saving themselves for marriage.

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Wow, this thread is messed up and people's memories are warped.

No one was distraught by the Challenger Explosion!

The pill was invented in the mid 1970s, and no one was sexually promiscuous in high school!

The Breakfast Club was not a Gen X movie!

No one knew who Curt Kobain was!

WOW.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

Are you sure you were actually sick? I was home from school that day as well and always assumed that I was sick. Later on I found out it was actually a snow day!

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My relatives born in that window consider themselves boomers. They are the very youngest kids of that generation in our family (children of WW2 vets). The next generation was born 1970+ - definitely Gen-X.

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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!

Hate will kill you.

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Anonymous wrote:The cohorts on the cusp between two generations typically don't feel strongly a part of either. This is true of the "Star Wars generation" born in the late 70s and very early 80s; it makes sense it would be true of those born at the very beginning of Gen X, also.

- Born in '79

Agree. Born December 77

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

I was in college at VT and had gone to the Student Center to get coffee and do some studying. There were always t.v.s on playing background noise. I heard a ruckus and looked up from my book to see what had happened to the Challenger. The room was filled with total disbelief. I was also studying in the Student Center when Joe Theisman broke his leg.

I also remember watching the whole Baby Jessica rescue on the tiny rabbit eared t.v. in my dorm room. I couldn't turn it off....

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

Odd. I was in 3rd grade and in class watching it when it happened, and I was certainly traumatized by it...

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

I was in college at VT and had gone to the Student Center to get coffee and do some studying. There were always t.v.s on playing background noise. I heard a ruckus and looked up from my book to see what had happened to the Challenger. The room was filled with total disbelief. I was also studying in the Student Center when Joe Theisman broke his leg.

I also remember watching the whole Baby Jessica rescue on the tiny rabbit eared t.v. in my dorm room. I couldn't turn it off....

We were in the same place. I was walking into the squires student center when I saw the accident.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1959. The charts say I am a boomer, so I guess I am a boomer.

I was 4 when Kennedy was shot. I don't remember anything about it. While Vietnam was intensely going on, I was learning to ride my bike without training wheels. Of course I heard about Vietnam, but Gomer Pyle was on TV and he seemed pretty happy. That Woodstock thing? I first learned about it by listening to a Joni Mitchell song on the radio years afterward. When the astronauts landed on the moon, my mom made me come in from playing outside to watch and I was pretty cranky with her about it because I had been having a good time playing.

I vaguely remember TV shows going from black and white to color.

I suppose I have boomer influences as well. Growing up, girls were expected to learn to cook and raise children and clean house. Going to college was a "waste of money to spend on a woman." A young woman could learn a trade such as secretarial or teaching or nursing, but she was expected to quit working once she got married and started putting that uterus to work. As a teen and young adult, I assumed that there would always be factory jobs that would pay well. Assembling tricycles, working at the Frito factory, working at the air conditioner factory, etc.

You were supposed to try to remain a virgin until marriage. Living together before marriage was a sin.

I used to read the teen magazines back when I was, well, a teen. The magazine articles said that teen boys have fragile egos and a teen girl should never win at tennis or chess with a teen boy.

Birth control pills came along when I was a teen and that just absolutely revolutionized everything. Now, it is accepted as a completely normal thing that two people can have sex with each other without it resulting in a baby.

Birth control pills came along in the early 60's when you were a preschooler, not in high school. And if you were in HS in the 70's, no one was saving themselves for marriage.

A brief history of the birth control pill:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/a-brief-history-of-the-birth-control-pill/480/

BCP approved for contraceptive use in 1960. In 1964 it is still controversial and illegal in 8 states.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Um, Gen X person here. I didn't really care about it BEFORE it blew up, but I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it did.

I absolutely remember when it blew up. We weren't following it beforehand, but it was a big deal when it blew up.

Yes. Of course it was a big deal in the news. But as a teenager, I remember hearing all the news stories about kids were so traumatized about the explosion and I certainly didn't feel that way, nor never saw it from anyone else my age. Maybe younger kids were more affected by it.

I was 13 I think when it happened and was annoyed b/c I was home sick from school that day and it preempted General Hospital. I certainly was not traumatized by it nor was anyone I know.

I was in college at VT and had gone to the Student Center to get coffee and do some studying. There were always t.v.s on playing background noise. I heard a ruckus and looked up from my book to see what had happened to the Challenger. The room was filled with total disbelief. I was also studying in the Student Center when Joe Theisman broke his leg.

I also remember watching the whole Baby Jessica rescue on the tiny rabbit eared t.v. in my dorm room. I couldn't turn it off....

Oh yeah, Baby Jessica was a pretty big deal too!

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.

The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.

I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.