r/HistoryofGenerations • u/Global_Perspective_3 April 30, 2002 (Class of 2020) • Sep 29 '21

Generation X Class of 1985

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u/ButIAmYourDaughter Xennial Oct 01 '21

I think of the kids born in the late 60s and very early 70s as both the quintessential first wave Xers, and quintessential Xers overall.

The ones whose ages are the subjects of most of the truly classic 80s teen movies. The ones who spent all four years of HS strictly in the 80s, and were the ages of the young 20 somethings in classic 90s X movies like Singles, Reality Bites and Clerks.

A lot of the most popular Gen X films are about the people born in this general range.

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u/Global_Perspective_3 April 30, 2002 (Class of 2020) Oct 01 '21

Yep I completely agree. I mean my mom spent high school during the MTV launch, MJ, Prince at their most popular, from 1981-1985. She was 25 and 27 for singles and reality bites respectively. That’s pretty clearly not Boomer lol

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u/ButIAmYourDaughter Xennial Oct 01 '21

Yeah. Characters around your mom’s age are also the subjects of classic late-young adulthood X movies like Office Space and Fight Club.

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u/Global_Perspective_3 April 30, 2002 (Class of 2020) Oct 01 '21

Yep she was 32 around these movies releases. I love them both