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[quote=Anonymous]I was born in 1964, making me a tail-end boomer. For 35 years I have watched baby boomers go through stages of their lives as if they were the first people in history to do so. They are hard to like because so many of them are self-centered, self-congratulatory, self-righteous, lecturing, hectoring, judgmental hypocrites. You can make the case that the accomplishments of their generation are typical, considering that they include 75 million Americans  born over a two-decade span. Take the birth control pill, for example, which had a huge impact on society,  liberating millions of women sexually. The baby boomers point proudly to its introduction as another notch in their revolt against the repressed, Victorian society of their parents. Except that the doctor who developed the pill (hormone researcher Gregory Pincus) was born in 1903. The activist who waged the legal fight, which led to the pill's introduction in 1957, was born in the 1800s. The baby boomers portray themselves as the leaders of the sexual revolution, but it would more accurate to say that, in this case as in so many other cases, they indulged in the rewards brought to them by their parents and grandparents. What's so dislikable is not their pride but their lack of gratitude to -- and their contempt for -- the people who came before them.
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