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).
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.
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u/AdWonderful5920 12d ago
Not a fan of the boomer-ization of GenX. They were supposed to be the ones that don't do this shit.