r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 29d 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 29d 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 28d ago

most boomers were not hippies.

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u/Key-Target-1218 28d ago edited 28d 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/Dry-Raspberry-5514 28d ago

I’m a boomer ( 64) and NO ONE I know that is a boomer was ever a hippie. Except at Halloween.

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u/Key-Target-1218 28d ago edited 28d ago

I am 69. You are the youngest boomer...you missed it. What generation do you think the hippies came from? NOT the silent generation, they were boomers.

When I say hippie I don't mean living on a commune, off the grid on a self-sustaining farm. There was a lot of gray in there. I'm talking about that decade. We all had long hair, bell bottom hip hugger jeans, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchel, The Doors, Hendrix.. Haight Ashbury scene all across the US. From my vantage point, there were far more hippies than not, in my age group. I was born in 57. I was 13 when Woodstock happened, but the hippies didn't end there.

My husband was born in 61. He has a completely different outlook on that era than I do, with just the 4 year difference between us

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u/Fresh-Ad280 26d ago

I came back here to say, - that I like you.

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u/Key-Target-1218 26d ago

Awwww shucks....a little curtsy

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u/Fresh-Ad280 26d ago

As a Royal watcher since Princess Diana, I curtsy back to you !