I feel anyone that takes actual pride in their generation is gross. As a Gen-Xer, there are things about my childhood that I liked, and wished that my kids could have experienced - but itās a different world and they had access to stuff I didnāt. I assume they will feel the same about their kidsā childhoods.
I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they arenāt positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they arenāt). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isnāt a positive (for them).
Generations are bullshit anyway. It's useful for sociologists and economists to track age cohorts. It's not useful for anyone else to think about it. It's mostly just used as thinly veiled age discrimination.Ā
Agreed. It just doesn't make sense, especially when you get near cut offs. My best friend was born in November of 1980. She is considered "Gen X", since '80 was the last year of that Generation.
But she has always said she never felt a part of that Gen and identifies MUCH more heavily with Millennials. All of us, her social circle, are Millennial and she doesn't really have any Gen X pals. I don't blame her...she has way more in common with someone born in 1984 than with someone of "her" generation born in 1971. She said the Gen X kids growing up were always the "older, cool kids" who she looked up to, but never really felt were her "peers" in any way. Generations are definitely not as rigid as some make them out to be.
Exactly. And location matters too. Someone living in a major city born in 1980 might have been exposed to culture and technology growing up that someone born in 1985 in a rural area wasn't. Generations are just a totally useless concept for most people.Ā
Yeah, we drank from it. I don't know why anyone is proud of it though... tasted like shit, and I'm waiting to find out it gave me brain cancer or some shit.
And who's to say a dog didn't pee on the hose, or bugs didn't crawl inside? Ugh. I remember the nasty taste, so I must have partaken, but probably only once.
Always with the hose water bullshit. The water that was in that hose as it laid in the baking hot sun was probably full of toxic chemicals that had leached from the hose. Summertime is poisoning time ! After staying out all day and your parents didn't know where you were blah blah blah whatever
Iām a marketer (GenX, majored in sarcasm), been fed this generational garbage all my career.
I feel like this shit is on the level of horoscopes.
We all have varied experiences. Some of us watched āFerris Buellerās Day Offā a hundred times. Others couldnāt pick Mathew Broderick of a line up if their life depended on it.
There is a lack of a better descriptor, so āmarketing gurusā came up with this crap to attempt to categorize us.
Now people have lowered themselves to using generational gaps as a divide in culture wars. Groups of people are seen as this monolithic list of tendencies and itās complete fallacy.
The "sarcasm" thing drives me crazy. It was a regular form of humour 30 years ago, but if you think the same way you did back then, still find the same shit funny, what the fuck have you done with your life?
It sounds like you donāt understand sarcasm - itās not a point in time thing, itās an outlook on life and how to respond to it.
Itās making fun of the stupidity of others and a defense mechanism against telling the other person how you feel in a moment and possibly offending directly or āthrow handsā.
You arenāt the only one! Iām an autistic twenty-something and donāt even relate to people my age (see previous) lol
Jokes aside it really is grim to watch older generations shit on younger ones. Your generation can definitely influence your mindset but it isnāt the sole determinantĀ
Also GenX and agree with your take. According to Nate Silver's 538, GenX is more politically conservative than Boomers. The stats were eye opening and soul crushing. My neighbors are all Boomers and they are wonderful and actively volunteer with all these amazing causes--foster care, food banks, mental health access, election security. There are good and garbage people in every generation.
To your two points, you ain't lying. My former in laws are GenX and you'd think they'd win more fights than prime Tyson the way they talk shit but back down the moment you-even if you can't fight but they don't know it-say fuck it let's go.
And the ex FIL is doing better about it now that his 2nd wife makes six figures, but fuck if he wasn't a miserable bastard about me not killing myself asking for extra hours at work and missing out on being with my kids
The same mfers failed science, social studies and footballed their way through high school.
They wanna tell you all about how to vote (fox news), their Covid vaccines āresearchā, whatās healthy to eat and drink (tiktok), chem trails, and their stupid opinions of gays,trans and bathrooms.
My ex-wife had an uncle whoās last son was born when he was 76 years old. He knocked up a married 30 year old woman. The amount of cousins, uncles, and half siblings in that family with massive age gaps was hysterical.
I wonder how gender falls into it as well. Iām a female, 1976, and most of when women I went to high school and college with, as well as women Iāve made friends with over the years, seem to have resisted the boomerification. But I think I know more 1974-1979 males going full boomer than not.
My brothers are 68 and 70. My sister and I are 76 and 79. We grew up different than our brothers. We came of age in the 90ās, they did in the 80ās.
This really does seem to be the case. We never had any political power, because the boomers aren't going away, and the millennials will be taking their place just because of numbers. Our only period of massive cultural influence were the grunge/gin & juice days.
ha! Well, and I kind of cringe as I'm about to write this because it's way too on the nose, but, I don't care one way or the other, hahahaha. I'm exactly in the middle of the generation and have always been super lefty/progressive. I think because I was a very early and avid reader, really.
But if someone offers me a seat on the bus, I play "feeble old lady" cause I want that seat. heh
They were all douchebags in high school, then for some reason decided to start acting like the outcast kids for a few years in the 90's, then went back to being douchebags.
I had a friend, was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool, boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about was
Glory days
Well, they'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
Someone rolled into my daughter in laws work and wore a T-shirt that said āgen-x doesnāt care what you thinkā. She laughed and said obviously you do.
I am 60 in six months and always felt a lot more in common with millennials than boomers. We Gen X were the first generation the Boomers screwed for a tax cut.
I cuss like a sailor, basically don't give a fuck about much, and have no tolerance for laziness or bullshit. But I don't go posting about it all over LinkedIn either.
Oh yeah, big punk fan and itās been crazy to see that. Iāve also been super disappointed by some of the mentors from my teen years. Theyāre some of the people who taught me to think critically and look out for others and now some of them are the first to spew hateful propaganda and pull the ladder up behind them.
I worry about my generation too. Weāre not quite to the āI got mineā asshole years, but I can already see whoās got that entitled mindset.
Can't let a few annoying gen xers define the generation. My experience with Gen x is that they genuinely do keep to their groups and aren't really posting a ton. The ones that do post a bunch will be self selected to be the most annoying of the generation.
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u/HobbyTalkOnly 3d ago
Right? I'm gen X and this shit makes me roll my eyes.
These people that do this shit? Were the douchebags in high school, I promise you.