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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who TF says cocktail hour?[/quote]

Boomers, as a way to cover up their excessive drinking.  Both my parents  and my ILs do this.

They act like everyone puts on a big show at 5 p.m. every night. Um, no,  DH and I maybe have a drink at home once a week. We don’t put on an elaborate ritual every night to make binge drinking seem civilized. [/quote]

[b]Says the old man whose wife never worked a minute in her life and was ready at the door to promptly start cocktail hour at 5 pm every single day if her uneventful life with him. 😆 [/b]

Shut up about boomers, lazy millennial who hates her parents. Sick of you![/quote][/quote]

Yuck to your response. I’m a millennial woman with a job but it is so rude to discount all the actual WORK that generation did, often not bc they wanted to, but bc as women it was difficult for them to be gainfully, meaningfully, or safely employed. Just because it was unpaid labor does not mean it was not work. And God forbid people CHOSE to take their limited resources and tried to make their family life and their corner of the world beautiful with them. I wonder if you have any idea what generations of women before us struggled through, to make your sneering attitude possible. So disrespectful.[/quote]

I agree it’s all disrespectful.  But cocktail hours and the struggles you describe are more greatest and silent generations, not boomers, IMO.[/quote]

GenX and younger women are expected to work AND cater to boomer parents. And many work because we, don’t, have, a, choice. [/quote]

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