Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

please feel free to strangle anyone who chirps brightly, "age is just a number". put it on my tab.

that's where generations come into play, because a 40 year old might understand a lot of a 28 year old's experiences, but a 60 year old to a 28 year old, nah

don’t think that’s true at all

I'm at the same shows as the 28 year olds and don't see any 60 year olds man

don’t think relating between generations is about shows

Shows: what, you? No

my neighborhood has turned over a bit but is still disproportionately people in their 30s/40s now

I'm thinking of the nextdoor posters from nearby areas who complain about their homes not appreciating compared to other neighborhoods or their blocks having issues with kids and thinking, yeah, demographics changed and your peers moved to other neighborhoods or the suburbs. but it's evidence that you have a demographic cohort, and you no longer live among them. not your fault, not theirs, but the houses are less-maintained and populated by younger people with even younger kids making comparably less money than your peers who moved :/

that's where generations come into play, because a 40 year old might understand a lot of a 28 year old's experiences, but a 60 year old to a 28 year old, nah

Is that really generations in the demographic sense or just commonalities between ppl are are closer in age? Like would a 2020 60 yr old time traveling boomer relate to a 28 yr old boomer in 1970 as much as they'd relate to a 60 yr old in 1970? Idk depends.

generations are.. made of people.. who age

Thanks siri

I mean, they might bond over having gone to the same Grateful Dead show and then one would ask wtf a smartphone was

xp otm

and a 60 year old in 1970 would have a shitload more grandkids, demographically

Ya. Some things are specific to eras and some things are specific to stages of life. Seems like the 2 get conflated.

fuck you mh

seems more likely to me that a 28 year old might understand a lot of a 40 year old's experiences, but a 28 year old to a 60 year old, nah.

my memories of my twenties have, understandably faded somewhat in the face of further decades of urgent, often difficult struggles, but on the whole it remains the decade where my entire adulthood was formed and many of my most important days were lived out -- compared to which, whatever popular culture was doing at the time pales to insignificance.

the problems I faced and my attempts at solutions are what really mattered. if you think that the problems of people in their twenties today are of a completely different quality than in the 1970s, well, that is what each generation thinks to some extent. it wasn't as different to those in their midst.

any given any year old can understand or not understand anything

that this mode of thought continues as a thinkpoint distresses me

deems, you're not far removed from 28, now, aren't you? sorry if I stepped on your toes there. you seem like an understanding sort of fellow. I was after speaking in a general way.

not at all

im giving out to mh tbh

tbph im not sure i even read the posts under the mh post i found objectionable

this happens a lot

i think it means i overtalked ye soz folks

generations aren't much use when employed on the level of individuals, it's a macro big picture thing. any given 60yo might be sympathetic to the economic plight of 25yos but that overlooks how the dynamics work on the big scale

yes

this is a good thing

due to the protests i've recently been inundated with social media posts from 32-45 year olds exalting "gen z" and applying to them an essentialist laundry list of cartoonish personality traits and i don't think i can take another 10 years of this. it's just gonna keep happening over and over and over again, the same exact way and i don't want to be alive for it. at a certain point the exaltation becomes fetishistic, creepy - millennials applying traits that were bombastically attributed to them 5 years ago in a slightly more bombastic and self-assured manner. turns out zoomers are socially anxious (but it's funny), confrontational, woke, and they tip well - these have nothing to do with age, this is just how the standard twitter user with a commissioned fanart avi of themselves wants to be seen. stop projecting your idealized identity onto teenagers you weirdos! none of this is real you're just contributing to social media's drive to flatten humanity into a more flippable pancake

booming post

fuck, I should have said zooming

lol

due to the protests i've recently been inundated with social media posts from 32-45 year olds exalting "gen z" and applying to them an essentialist laundry list of cartoonish personality traits and i don't think i can take another 10 years of this. it's just gonna keep happening over and over and over again, the same exact way and i don't want to be alive for it. at a certain point the exaltation becomes fetishistic, creepy - millennials applying traits that were bombastically attributed to them 5 years ago in a slightly more bombastic and self-assured manner. turns out zoomers are socially anxious (but it's funny), confrontational, woke, and they tip well - these have nothing to do with age, this is just how the standard twitter user with a commissioned fanart avi of themselves wants to be seen. stop projecting your idealized identity onto teenagers you weirdos! none of this is real you're just contributing to social media's drive to flatten humanity into a more flippable pancake

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to be fair gen x did it to millennials first

and the zoomers will do it to the yoomers/xoomers/xillennials/zilent generation/generation pepsi/whatever we settle on in 8-10 years

what percentage of these posts include the line "the kids are alright"?

(17 year old e-girl makes a tik tok about communism)

35 year old leftist professor in bushwick: Methinks the kids are alright :) haha anybody know this girls age?

— Patrick (@lunch_enjoyer) October 31, 2019

Zoomer fetishism is weird because they’re also
heavily influenced by Nazi twitch gamers.

that doesn't represent the zoomers I know

a whole thread about disparaging people who aren't your age

the zoomers you know don't represent the zoomers you don't know

agree, but

I guess we're all thinking about general statements, I'm included

"Comparing generations is a very easy, very useful way to understand culture. Generations comprise vast swaths of people all similar enough to be safely lumped together and discussed as a mass, almost as if they constituted a single individual. You can speak of a generation's values and even its beliefs. Most importantly, you can blame them for things."

treeship's original post really said it all

Lotta "kids are alright" tweets tonight.

None of us really understand zoomers as a generality (including people who are parents to zoomers). Feel like you have to be of a gen to really fucking get it y'know. Like for all I hate and stereotype boomers and gen x and have grown up on their cultural products etc. I dont really know them and zoomers havent had the time to end up being the establishment, most of us wont live to see that

I thought this was the sourdough generation

to be fair gen x did it to millennials first

Not me I hate those guys every last one of them

Good morning Lorrie Moore has declared war??? pic.twitter.com/1dsb2yQHoF

— Stephen Piccarella (@spiccarella) July 15, 2020

i can see how the type of person who thinks BDSM was invented in 1983 would think these things

She said the term was invented in 1983, then expressed some doubt about the extent the practice of BDSM existed prior to that. The doubt was unmerited, but there's no reason to make her sound more clueless than what she actually said.

i don't think moore is a generally clueless person and i've enjoyed a story or two of hers in the past. the point is that, like nearly all discourse around cultural generations over the past oh 60 years, the scope of the supplied bitter generalizations doesn't even extend beyond a small, privileged class of straw people - upper/upper-middle class, white, and in this specific case, heterosexual to the point where leather bars are thought to be a fairly recent invention

if these are the only people that make up your world then sure go off i guess. what's the point in even reacting to this stuff, it's just kayfabe entertainment for a very specific brand of person

i do love the "millennials had harry potter boomers had old yeller" line - my boomer mom once told me that in high school every girl walked around with a copy of catcher in the rye and every boy walked around with a copy of lord of the rings

yeah this is ludicrous, I mean They seem like nice people. But not normal. is a wholly deranged thing to say about a whole "generation"

She's right about one thing though, millennial's music kinda sucks, if you're talking about the new music their generation likes. They do have excellent taste in old music, though.

Gen X musical taste is more offensive than either boomers or millennials

Gen Z who knows but 100 gecs are pretty cool