Stop calling Gen X people "Boomers"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 48 year old Gen Xer and feel (generally) fine about being old. But I draw the line at getting confused with Boomers. Boomers ruined everything. EVERYTHING.

THIS

[Anonymous]

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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.

Social media was invented by Gen Xers.

[Anonymous]

us boomer had the summer of love, man. You can't even do that today.
Sorry, can't say I think much of this current generation either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Yeah I’m pretty sure my 18y/o cousin sees me (32) as an old person just like she sees her parents (gen z and boomer) as old people. We are all just boring old people with kids and mortgages. I’m pretty far in age from being a boomer but I really don’t care that young people often see everyone over 25 as old. People on here are getting too hung up on the technical definitions, like another poster said “boomer” is a state of being to young people not a specific age.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t gen x in their 50s and 60s now? I think young people just genuinely don’t see the difference between them and boomers. When you are 20, 35 seems old.

No,were in our 40s and 50s. Only half geriatric. Boomers are 60s 70s.

This. Gen X is 1964 at the earliest and ends around 1981 or 1982, is my understanding. We are the latch-key kids, first of the MTV generation, many of us remember the gas crisis, hyper-inflation, and were coming of age at the time of the stock market crash. We are the generation of Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Electric Company (and Zoom). We watched all the 1960s sitcoms in syndication on UHF: Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, The Monkees, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, among them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 48 year old Gen Xer and feel (generally) fine about being old. But I draw the line at getting confused with Boomers. Boomers ruined everything. EVERYTHING.

THIS

Agree. I don't care if you think I'm old, lame, suck with my two spaces after a period. WHATEVER. Confusing us with Boomers is a bridge to far even for our level of ennui.

[Anonymous]

My teens think millennials are essentially off brand boomers. Cycle of life.

[Anonymous]

To college kids over 30 are adults.
Over 45 are parents
Over 50 are ancient
Over 60 are so old who can tell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To college kids over 30 are adults.
Over 45 are parents
Over 50 are ancient
Over 60 are so old who can tell?

Yup pretty much

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Millennials watched a movie about Live Aid and Queen. We watched Live Aid, enough said.

I actually feel really sad for Gen Z and what they consider good music. They have no idea.

Go get your walker and canes genxboomer

Haha I’m 41 and started wearing reading glasses this year. I embrace my aging. It’s giving me wisdom and means I’ve made it another year. Hope you’ll be as lucky. I look upon those older than me with reverence. You have no idea what it takes to stay alive for 4+ decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 48 year old Gen Xer and feel (generally) fine about being old. But I draw the line at getting confused with Boomers. Boomers ruined everything. EVERYTHING.

THIS

100% this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Social media was invented by Gen Xers.

Your life today and everything you love about it, including musical hits and retro everything that’s come back in style, would not be what it is without Gen X.

You’re welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t gen x in their 50s and 60s now? I think young people just genuinely don’t see the difference between them and boomers. When you are 20, 35 seems old.

What is the difference? Stereotyping millions people by the year they were born is stupid just like stereotyping people for any other reason. Why is it useful to assume they are all the same. Ask 100 boomers what they think about 9-11, or football, or coffee, or anything else and you get 200 different answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 48 year old Gen Xer and feel (generally) fine about being old. But I draw the line at getting confused with Boomers. Boomers ruined everything. EVERYTHING.

THIS

Agree. I don't care if you think I'm old, lame, suck with my two spaces after a period. WHATEVER. Confusing us with Boomers is a bridge to far even for our level of ennui.

+3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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

That’s ok. We have the image of your tramp stamp and thong sticking out while acting like a drunken fool seared into our brains.