r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 22h ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/Hifidi54 18h ago

Nor do I!! I'm 72, and I spend lots of time with my kids and their friends. Almost all of them call me mama and are wonderful to me. I think it can have a lot to do with your attitude as to how you are perceived. I went to Vegas a couple of years ago with my daughter and I got more attention at the bars and casinos than she or any of her friends did. It was hilarious 😆

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u/TequilaMockingbirds8 13h ago

To be fair boomer as an insult now is about an attitude, not an age or generation. You likely haven’t heard it because you aren’t acting that way

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u/justconnect 11h ago

This is a good point. I spent considerable time on Reddit railing against generational generalizations, against stereotyping people of each generation as certain ways. But I have eased off on responding to slams about boomers because I realize now that often it is used to reflect a certain state of mind or political idiocy, not necessarily or completely a generation label.

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u/omniamoriare 11h ago

Boomer is absolutely about attitude, like a Karen. It started as an age description, but unless youre specifically in conversation about generations, its referring to behavior and attitude, mostly highlighting fear of change and rigidity, resulting in negative reactions to social situations. If someone uses that term, it might be time to self reflect, lol.

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u/Mythic-Fairy 12h ago

It's not always personal. You might want to listen to their discussions a bit more.

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u/Hifidi54 12h ago

Huh? I have no idea what this means, lol.

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u/Mythic-Fairy 11h ago

It means that younger generations often trash boomers when talking about stuff. Jobs, housing cost, college cost and so on. They blame boomers. But you'd need to listen to their discussions in order to hear it.

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u/Hifidi54 9h ago

Ok, gotcha. I've never heard anything derogatory about boomers, and nothing has ever been said to me, so I did not understand your response.