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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is astonishing to me that people think Gen X had it so much easier.  First generation from broken families.  Mostly neglected, not always benignly.  Education funding cut.  Graduated into a recession.  The list goes on.  Now we have college aged kids and are struggling to afford bloated tuition while incomes haven’t kept up with costs.  Our retirement savings are inadequate and many of us are caring for our aging Boomer parents who don’t have enough money because they spent stupidly.

Boomers, sure.  But they pulled the ladder up behind them for all of us.[/quote]

Boomers had it much tougher, especially women. Women couldn't have men's jobs, mens pay,, college admissions, school sports - women couldn't run in marathons - discrimination was legal. Abortion rights hard won in the 1970s. Young Men were drafted into a war. Boomers studied and worked without the internet, pcs, cell phones, printers. There were terrible recessions and whole industries like steel, manufacturing jobs left, towns died and people fell from the middle class into poverty - Boomers lost their livelihood in the 1980s. It's astonishing how little younger people know about recent history.[/quote]

Much of GenX didn't have internet, cell phones, etc. either.  
There are boomer women running marathons NOW and for the past several decades.  Katherine Switzer won NYC in 1974--when Boomers were all still under the age of 30!
The "terrible recessions" you describe are nothing compared to what their parents went through in the great depression.

It's astonishing how someone on DCUM will post misinformation and leave out facts about recent history.[/quote]

[b]Most Boomer women were raised by parents that expected them marry at 18 to have babies at 19 and raise them as a career[/b]. Our parents didn't save up for their daughters college education. Our parents thought girls shouldn't be taking up seats in college because women didn't have careers. We had mandatory Home Economics classes in HS to teach house keeping skills.

Boomer women fought and burned our bras for abortion rights, equality in  jobs and education. It was hard being the first women to take mens jobs and seats in college. We put up with a lot of crap and sexual harassment sbich was legal back then.

The generation of women that followed takes a lot for granted. They never navigated the man's world Boomer women did. Now that Roe v Wade is overturned, I feel disappointed that Gen X and Z are asleep or on Netflix as the world slips backwards. Women Boomer are tired and don't want to fight for our basic rights again. Wake up ladies![/quote]

Ok now you're just outright lying.   My mother was born in 1948--so amongst the oldest of the boomers.   She went to a very traditional, Catholic all girls high school.   Only TWO girls out of her entire class got married at 18.   Many went on to college.   And "mandatory home economics classes" are a GREAT idea for all students, boys and girls!   Bring that back please!

We never asked you to "burn your bras" for anything (gross!)  Interesting that you phrase it as "take men's jobs and seats" and not "earned/qualified for jobs and seats."   Basically you're admitting that you got free handouts that you don't deserve--way to go, I guess?

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Yeah my mom -- Black! in the South! -- was born in 1949 and DID get married at 19 as a college freshman to my grandparents' dismay to my dad, a 23-year-old recent college grad with a professional job and she finished undergrad, went on to grad school. And none of my grandparents were affluent or college-educated so there was no privilege or money to fall back on. [/quote]

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