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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Full disclosure: I am a Boomer, so maybe that's the problem.

Not so much plots, maybe, but scenes or even moments in a show can really, really irritate me. Awkward writing. Character reactions to something that are off base. Going overboard when stereotyping 50s male chauvinism or any other particular stereotype. Errors about ordinary facts--the equivalent, say, of incorrectly stating the boiling temperature of water. Anachronisms (I swear I saw a post-it note on a prop in a show taking place in the 1950s).

Is this an age thing? Obviously, age affects recognition of anachronisms, but is being more and more irritated over the other stuff a symptom of age or of high expectations/standards? The books/video entertainment that pleases me the most has none of these potholes.

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Boomer as in your parents were WW2 vets, ie born in the late 40s to early 60s?

Or the tiktok definition of boomers of any adult older than a millenial?

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True boomers were in grade school during the 50s, watching Howdy Doody and acting out real life Stand By Me adventures, then teens and college age during Vietnam and the hippie years. I know that the definition of boomer extends to kids born into the mid-60s, but those aren't real boomers, they're closer to Gen X.[/quote]

Boomer birth cohort went to 1964. I'm OP, born in 1954, so I was a kindergartener in 1960. We lived in a small town built in the 50s and populated by young families, and the babies kept coming, the 1965 birth cohort ended up being the peak h.s. graduating class. Gen X kids grew up after large numbers of women entered the workforce and everyone was getting divorced, so they were the latchkey kids. Gen X started with the babies born in 1965, who by the time they were adults faced a tough job market and in particular massive loss of union jobs--although at the same time the well-paid union members and skilled trades workers from the baby boom did all they could to get their kids educated for white collar jobs. When I graduated i 72, every boy who wasn't enrolling in post-secondary education was guaranteed a union job where our dads worked. By the mid-80s, those jobs were disappearing and breadwinners were getting laid off for extended periods. So also women HAD to work to keep family afloat. But unlike 1972, they weren't restricted to where they could work. (As seniors we were required to take "senior sosh" which  was sociology, econ, poli sci, and we had to cut out newspaper help wanted ads. I still remember vividly there were two sections: Help wanted--women and Help wanted--men.

One difference in TV: Moms on TV were married, except for Timmy (Lassie)'s mother who was widowed. I don't think there was a divorced mom lead until One Day At A Time in 1975--reflecting the rising divorce rate. Divorce rate peaked in 1980--and the Gen X kids were the latchkey kids.

My mom's brothers and her sisters' husbands and my dad all served in WWII and had children born through 1963. They were also baby boomers by definition. [/quote]

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