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Post 06/23/2022 06:34     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
Anonymous wrote:My 1963 and 1964 parents are boomers. The 63 is more chill and laid back than the 64 but they had the leg up that boomers had of cheap housing, affordable college, etc and were able to easily build wealth which to me is the signifier of boomers.


WTF? 64 here. Still paying student loans. Bought my first house at 39. I don't have any clue who you are referring to.
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Post 06/23/2022 06:01     Subject: Re:If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!


I really hate hate hate you. Why would you hate an entire generation of people? Generalize much? Get over yourself. Stupid hate filled scumbag. And I’m no where near being a boomer myself. Just hate all you haters.


DP You boomers insist upon yourselves. So tired of being told how great the boomer failed utopia is from the music to sell out hippies. It is the most selfish generation.





Yep^^^. All of the Moms of the WWII generation read Dr. Spock’s baby care book, and spoiled us ROTTEN.
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Post 06/23/2022 05:58     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x



Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"




Yep. I was born in 56, and was 7 years old when JFK was assassinated. I remember my mother weeping, and then watching Oswald get shot live on TV. It is seared in to my memory forever.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2022 05:36     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
My 1963 and 1964 parents are boomers. The 63 is more chill and laid back than the 64 but they had the leg up that boomers had of cheap housing, affordable college, etc and were able to easily build wealth which to me is the signifier of boomers.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2022 05:29     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
I'm born in 1964, and my parents were kids during WW2 and were pretty much Sixties Hippies. My husband is 1966, and his dad was a WW2 Vet and his mom a Rosie the Riveter. He was the last of 6 kids. Very different experiences.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2022 03:44     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
Anonymous wrote:Baby boomers are the children born when the WWII vets came home so a late 60s baby by definition could not be a Baby Boomer.


Say what? I know several people born in late 60s and early 70s with WWII Gen parents. Two friends born in ‘71 have parents born in the 1920s. My cousins born in ‘64 and ‘66 had parents born in 1920 and 1925.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2022 00:13     Subject: Re:If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
I am in the middle of the dates you gave. I feel embarrassed by some boomers disrespect for younger generations and minimization of the problems they are inheriting from us … however, I am not sure whether some of their worst behavior (biggest demo for Trump, quick to believe crazy conspiracy theories and deny science around climate change and pandemic) is specific to boomers or just part of being older and out of touch.

My views often align more with younger people on many issues but I am socially conservative in other ways. These generational nick names are just labels.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2022 00:11     Subject: Re:If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!


I really hate hate hate you. Why would you hate an entire generation of people? Generalize much? Get over yourself. Stupid hate filled scumbag. And I’m no where near being a boomer myself. Just hate all you haters.


DP You boomers insist upon yourselves. So tired of being told how great the boomer failed utopia is from the music to sell out hippies. It is the most selfish generation.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2022 00:00     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
As an X born in the early 70s, that question wigs me out.
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Post 06/22/2022 23:45     Subject: Re:If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
Anonymous wrote:64, Gen X, and I hate, hate, hate the Boomers!


I really hate hate hate you. Why would you hate an entire generation of people? Generalize much? Get over yourself. Stupid hate filled scumbag. And I’m no where near being a boomer myself. Just hate all you haters.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2022 23:39     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
Anonymous wrote:I think it depends who you are born TO. I was born in 74 to Boomer parents. My youngest aunt was born in66 to Greatest Generation. She is definitely a Boomer (although outside your window).



She is definitely not a Boomer. 65 is first year of Gen X.
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Post 06/22/2022 20:25     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x



Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"


I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?


There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.


Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.


Only if you were white.


Nah. I'm white and that was not on my radar either. I was practicing law by then anyway.

If you were 24+ in 1994, you are not an Xer.


The thread is asking about people born between 60-64 and suggesting that they are Gen X (they aren't).

I was born in 1967. But I actually agree: we are The Lost Generation, because we aren't Boomers and we really aren't Gen X either. We are the Breakfast Club/Brat Pack Generation.


I tend to agree with you. The younger Boomers and the older Gen Xers fall into this category I think. We were the Breakfast Club/St Elmo's Fire generation. Latchkey kids who relied heavily on each other to get through life. We started shared group rentals after college as opposed to getting married after college.



Which is generation X. Why the confusion?


It's the wide span of ages that encompasses Gen X. There was a difference being an older teen/college age when the Breakfast club and St Elmo's Fire came out and being a preschooler when those movies came out. There was a difference between going to a high school dance when Michael Jackson first came out with Thriller and having the song played at a HS dance 10 or 20 years later (if it was played at all).

We were definitely after the Saturday Night Fever crowd but also quite a bit before the kids born in the 70's or 80's.



Someone who was an older teen when these movies came out is definetly an Xer. These are generation x movies! Someone who was a preschooler when they came out was a millennial.


Gen X spans from mid 60's to early 80's. The Breakfast Club came out in 1985. So if you were born in 1982 you would have been in preschool when the Breakfast Club came out.



The most liberal Millenial dates start at 1978 being the cutoff point, early 80s is definitely not Gen X. Trust me, as an early 80s baby I'd live to shirk this Millenial thing, but we can't. The most fair interpretation is that there is a micro generation (gen y, the Oregon trail generation, the "bridger" generation, etc) that's a mashup of X and Millenial. We remember life without the internet and cell phones (mught have had pagers!), we watched My So Called Life, we saw the Real World and reality Tv when it was even close to reality, and we were entering or in college on 9/11

. Too kate for Gen X though and worlds apart from someone born in 1964.


That’s because someone born in 1964 is a baby boomer.


The baby boom was really right after the war so I wouldn't consider 64 a boomer Maybe a cusp generation
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Post 06/22/2022 20:15     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
Anonymous wrote:I think it depends who you are born TO. I was born in 74 to Boomer parents. My youngest aunt was born in66 to Greatest Generation. She is definitely a Boomer (although outside your window).



Sorry but, she is not a boomer. She is Gen X
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Post 06/22/2022 20:07     Subject: If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x



Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"


I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?



Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.


Totally wrong. '74 here, X'er all the way. I was going to write in and say that Challenger would be one of X'er's unifying events.
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Post 06/22/2022 15:31     Subject: Re:If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
I was born in 1964. My parents did not fight in World War II. My dad was only 10 years old when the war ended in 1945 and my mom was only 4.

I don’t relate to the baby boomers and I’m not quite a Gen X either. Although if I need to choose, I relate more to Gen X. My favorite decade of music is the 1990s.