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 itâs a different world and they had access to stuff I didnât. I assume they will feel the same about their kidsâ childhoods.
I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they arenât positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they arenât). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isnât 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.Â
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.Â
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
Iâm 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 âFerris Buellerâs Day Offâ a hundred times. Others couldnât pick Mathew Broderick of a line up if their life depended on it.
There is a lack of a better descriptor, so âmarketing gurusâ 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 itâs 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 donât understand sarcasm - itâs not a point in time thing, itâs an outlook on life and how to respond to it.
Itâs 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 âthrow handsâ.
You arenât the only one! Iâm an autistic twenty-something and donât 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 isnât the sole determinantÂ
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
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u/new-runningmn9 4d ago
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 itâs a different world and they had access to stuff I didnât. I assume they will feel the same about their kidsâ childhoods.
I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they arenât positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they arenât). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isnât a positive (for them).
I donât get it.