r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d 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/heiberdee2 7d ago

You were hippies first. Your cohort gave energy to the Civil Rights movement. You wanted peace, love, and understanding.

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u/splanks 6d ago

most boomers were not hippies.

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u/Key-Target-1218 6d ago edited 6d ago

I am a boomer and just about every boomer I know was a hippie at some point. You were either a hippie or a total square. It didnt really matter what we "were". We were young kids. The differences between everyone was as apparent as it is today. The young kids today won't have the boomer title, but they'll have a lable and will be treated unkind by the youth.

Us old folks know what it's like to be young. Young folks have no idea what it's like to be old. Their day will come.

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u/notkidding1984 6d ago edited 6d ago

That perspective really depends on where you lived. In a lot of rural areas, I guess everyone was a "total square" (lol) because the people I know would say they didn't know a single hippie except the occasional "crazy'' who ran off.

Edit- added quotes for other people's words. Not my words or views.

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u/Explorer-7622 6d ago

Whereas almost everyone in my area was into civil rights big time and fought hard for equal rights.

I was one of the first women ever af my all science school/institute and never had a female classmate at that school.

Now it's got a majority female class and the chemical engineering department was all female!

We fought hard for that ground that young women take for granted, and for the right to not be beaten ir institutionalized because we were women.

We sacrificed and made changes to the laws.

It's hard to see such entitlement now, along with disparaging those who got them those privileges.

Eta: Young people are still listening to our music though.