Let's be Generation X

I'm Marjorie Taylor Greene

Whatever

I'm Amy Coney Barrett

I'm the whatever that is so totally not a whatever.

I enjoy visiting DL because it makes me feel like a surly young kid in comparison to the other regulars.

I don't like labels

I'm the biggest MAGA voting bloc.

I'm Kevin McCarthy.

I just got my ass handed to me by Matt Gaetz.

I'm a Karen!

I'm the condescending attitude towards millennials.

We're so cool. We made great music. But our politicians SUCK ASS!

I'm a latchey kid....I'm from the last generation that will ever know freedom.

I'm the latchkey that you need to shove up your ass and STFU about.

Ouch....I'm R13,a millenial and I feel defensive

I'm a Millennial and you will RUE the day that you decided to fuck with us.

I still love labels, but I only want stupid people to notice.

I'm flannel.

I'm the claim to have been watching MTV the VERY MOMENT it debuted with "Video Killed the Radio Star". I'm Gen X's "I was at Woodstock"!

When I am refuted with the undeniable fact that I was not even broadcast in the viewer's geographic area at that time, I quickly transition into a claim of seeing Nirvana at a tiny, unnamed punk club "before anyone even knew who they were".

I'm legal abortion. I shall be the only generation who knows what means until I get old enough to knock that away from future generations!

Did not live up to your potential

I'm massive high school house parties ala 16 Candles.

I'm the Millennials who are going to keep their asses on check once the Baby Boomers are gone.

I was in my early-mid 20s and, well, I grew up and stopped spending all my ine blaming my parents for all my problems.

I own a home. Why? I didn’t spend all my money on constant travel and takeout delivery food and then complain about how unaffordable home ownership is.

R24 ,I'm sure. Your generation is why the housing bubble happened in 2000 and 2008. And you got bailed out.

Generation X is the McMansion Generation.

Whatever. Just don’t say anything bad about babydoll dresses on this thread. Or as I like to call them- mini caftans.

I think Generation X is learning that Millennials are not all about their bullshit.

R22 how? By the time it takes y'all to figure out your pronouns Gen X will be dead and the Z-ers wilk be running the world

I'm the frustrated mid-level executive at the small company who can't move up until the Boomers move on, but can't leave because I've put in too many years toward my retirement to quit now.

Secretly I envy how well taken care of and shielded from the reality of life the generations beneath me were in their youth.

We were too poor to subscribe to cable television services, so no MTV.

Why are there so many butthurt millenials on this thread?

Why are Gen Xers so scared of Baby Boomers?

Not scared. Despise.

At least Millennials punch up^^^^^^^^^^^

That's more than you Boomer cocksucking Gen Xers can ever claim. :)

R34 if you despise them so much, why are you acting just like them?

In which ways? Be specific in your complaint.

R37, your condescending Boomerish attitude.

I am not condescending. I am contemptuous.

Whatever. Why have beef with any other generation? It’s asinine.

You're annoying, for sure.

xoxo, a Millennial

I'm too lazy, apathetic and ironic to post in this thread.

R33 scared? no, hun we have nothing to prove. We grew the fuck up and have no desire for petty mommy and daddy issues-infused generation wars.

I look at old photos or movies from 30+ years ago wistfully thinking, “No one is staring at a cell phone”.

What Gen X has contempt for is younger people who are incompetent at navigating everyday life and who lack toughness, because the adults in Gen X's lives taught them to expect life to be unfair on a regular basis, and that their feelings didn't matter. No matter how much it hurt or how humiliated you were, you had to stay on the team, make the speech at the assembly even if you stutter or have stage fright, work the hideous job in fast food or the discount store.

What the fuck is xx.. That is fucking annoying. Bitch ass.

I dunno, R40. Maybe you should ask your generation? They've made a fine art of being a bunch of sour cunts. And they directed their little attitude towards us, the Millennials.

And we're not here for it.

[quote] What Gen X has contempt for is younger people who are incompetent at navigating everyday life

Well then you can get the fuck over yourself right this instant.

I'm a Millennial and I don't have any patience for some "Gen X" cunt who thinks they're all tough and shit.

I am a thread about Gen X being overrun with Millennials who don't know the difference between Boomers and Gen X. Fucking typical.

Watch out, Gen X.

R49, we know all about Baby Boomers vs. Gen X.

We're only generation who can make that distinction between your gross, similar generations.

I'm still standing after the EMP while the Millennials and Zoomers try to google "how to boil water" on a dead phone, while I'm making a gourmet meal out of poptarts and popcorn.

[quote]What Gen X has contempt for is younger people who are incompetent at navigating everyday life and who lack toughness, because the adults in Gen X's lives taught them to expect life to be unfair on a regular basis, and that their feelings didn't matter.

Also, Gen X was the last who had to figure things out on their own. Didn’t know how to do something? You had to ask someone or just figure it out. No Google or YouTube. Gen X views the younger ones as incompetent at thinking for themselves.

I’m the designer drugs we were promised in the 90s. I still want webbed toes.

^^Generation X has always been the true Boomers and R52 proves it

R55 Whatever

[quote] Also, Gen X was the last who had to figure things out on their own. D

No, you're not.

This is why it's essential for Millennials to call Gen Xers out on their bullshit.

Cause your kids think everything you say is true! But we are here to tell them that it's not. :)

I’m the laughter that ensues when I see our local millennial snowflake troll melting down because this thread didn’t go as she planned.

I'm the laughter after Gen X realizes that we're going to fuck their asses up.

I'm the co-worker who fills in for YOUR LAZY FUCKING ASS when you have a headache and "can't" come to work for three days straight, and then, when you do finally wander in on Thursday, need my help composing a basic business letter and don't know why there's a North and South Korea.

Im the lack of morbid obesity in my high school yearbook.

Look at Gen X, Generations Z and Alpha.

They suck Baby Boomer dick.

I'm a GenXer. Some of us were preppies. Some of us were slackers. Some of us painted our faces and were into the Cure. The thing that truly defines us as a generation is most of our moms worked, being raised by TV, the cable TV boom, MTV, etc.... and the rise of AIDS and safe sex and no means no and the fact that we're sandwiched between the two biggest, narcissistic asshole generations known to humankind. Oh and the fact that we know the difference between what is a sexual assault and a bad date and we let comedians just be comedians.

R59 proves r58 correct

I’m two genders.

[quote] the fact that we're sandwiched between the two biggest, narcissistic asshole generations known to humankind.

No, you won't, asshole.

Whatever your issues are -- that's 100% on you.

Because if you think that Millennials are just here to take your abuse, to put up with your bullshit, you got another thing coming for your, baby.

[quote]Because if you think that Millennials are just here to take your abuse, to put up with your bullshit, you got another thing coming for your, baby.

We don't abuse you. We laugh at how weak and coddled you are. GenX wants to be left alone. You're the ones who keep summoning us. We're fine over here with our Brady Bunch reruns, memories of MTV Spring Break Specials and Alternative Music. We're even okay when you leave us off generational polls, where you go straight from boomers to millennials.

Future let’s be threads by the millennial divider troll:

Let’s be how disgusting and perverted homosexuality is

Let’s be out of touch libtards

Let’s be the hero who assassinates JK Rowling for her transphobia

Let’s be people aren’t vegan as they are criminalized

I’m 25 and still live at home with my Gen X parents.

I don’t ever plan to leave.

I'm Robert Downey Jr. (1965) and Eva Green (1980).

I'm plenty of memories and zero evidence.

I'm the fires consuming the shitty Woodstock revivals.

I'm reservations at Dorsia.

I'm Heather Chander's favorite mallet.

I'm a 1961 Ferrari GT California launched through a window by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

I'm a Teenage Wasteland.

And I'm the bright yellow stream of steaming piss unleashed into R66's pasty pimple-covered cunt of a face, going up both gaping pig-like nostrils and gradually filling their lungs as they stamp their trotters, shit their dungarees and squeal for mommy.

Well.

There's that.

“And we're not here for it.”

In this case you are speaking for your young generation, R47, this “we” is understandable

But this type of nonsensical plural parlance in the current crop of millennial web “journalists” is overused and sounds high-school-clique shallow. Speak for yourselves.

To wit: Beyonce is wearing her underwear on TOP of her pants and WE’RE SO HERE FOR IT.

I'm the irreparable damage, addressed in The Velvet Rage, of the entirety of adolescence from puberty on being an ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience), exacerbated by the rise of AIDS. While the straight kids were being "normally" socialized with regards to their adolescent sexuality, having their first dates, and having those couplings publicly celebrated with proms, cotillions, Homecoming King & Queen, etc. Gen X gays were learning they'd better pass or face being ostracized or even physically endangered.

Most religious denominations hadn't caught up yet, so there was probably some preaching against the sin of being gay too if you went to a church or synagogue. So if the average kid back in the day was brought up by 1) home, 2) school and 3) church/community, probably two out of those three had nothing to say but "there's something wrong fundamentally with you."

Coming out is never easy, but at least today so many kids have PFLAG or a Pride Organization on their campus, and even the marriage laws to affirm that being gay doesn't have to be furtive or a matter of shame.

This all plays out in the Gen X gays who are now antiseptic mincing purse lipped prisspots, sexless and perpetually unhappy. In corporate this type tends to be super competent but cold, always keeping score and meteing out their hospitality millimeter by millimeter. They'll be "staff" in a company founded and run by straights, or they'll be at the top of the ladder if it's a gay organization. They'll be in an open relationship that puts on a good front, but the partners don't have sex with each other anymore.

It can also be the 50-something gays still at the party: having lots of sex with lots of people and drinking and doing drugs as if there were no tomorrow, late, with the attention span of a gnat with ADHD and a gym rat.

You can also find the recovery gay, who's Sober Now and tells you so, and has been in therapy and on prescription antidepressants. Their emotions are close to the surface, they may be into meditation/spirituality (not religion) or post aphorisms on social media, and it seems like they're doing the best they can just to get through it all. Of all of them, they'll try the hardest to make a one-on-one relationship work.

But when you place them as Gen X gays, you understand at least a little why, perhaps, they are the way they are.

I'm the market for the last decent commercial popular music before everyone starting settling for overproduced, committee-generated schlock.

I rag on the boomers even though I embody all the worst traits and none of the good ones from that generation.

As a twatted Xer, the more someone gives me, the more I hate them, "actually."*

As a penised Xer, I really don't give a shit about anything, "actually."*

Boomers have good traits?

I wouldn’t have started a thread like this because as much as millennials think we give a shit about them, we really don’t. But I’d reply to it to say that starting a thread like this is so typical of the whiny millennials and that’s really just irritating, like pretty much everything about them. They are the gnats and fruit fly infestations when you forgot to throw away an apple of your life, but not something I’ll even think about after I click post. Their threats are pretty laughable and not something I can take seriously from someone who gets bent out of shape when a coffee shop doesn’t have avocado toast. Because I’m…

I feel seen by R18. (I really did see the first MTV video, though, and I spent a lot of time at Satyricon, so maybe I did see Nirvana?)

I'm the 50-something who still listens to 80s hardcore and even briefly browsed Descendents t-shirts on eBay yesterday.

[quote] Generation X is the McMansion Generation.

… said the still-living-at home-at-37 generation.

Twitter was just renamed for us.

Jealous, bitches?

I’m a Gen X-er who quit teaching because millennials were the dumbest dumbfucks who ever dumbfucked. Thank beezus I didn’t have to teach these new candy ass Gen Zers or whatever “they” call themselves. I hate you all and only love Winona Ryder.

I'm growing up without helicopter parents and then becoming an insane helicopter parent. Oddly, our children generally don't seem to mind.

I'm a generational identity that was very specific, identifiable, and sorta cool when my members were in their teens, 20s, and part of their 30s, but really sort of faded out and splintered into something non-specific or notable as the generation got older.

I always thought Gen X added a lot of color to the world

R78 said it so well there’s nothing to add about millennials except, your music sucks, you’re all obese whiny boring dimwits who cling to the five year generation gap between x and millennials and act like you’re soooomuch younger. We don’t abuse you tools, we don’t give a shit what you do. Just shut up for chrissakes and go call someone ableist for saying “oh that’s crazy”.

Get your mom to post here and tell us to stop being mean to you.

[quote] Twitter was just renamed for us.

Oh I thought it was renamed for Elon’s favorite kind of movie

[quote] Get your mom to post here and tell us to stop being mean to you.

Don’t we have enough fraus posting here as it is?

I thought Twitter was renamed for the X-Chair.

From where Elon sits he can see the future. It’s the same logo.

But actually you know whatever.

Dukakis ‘88!

R80 Let's not forget that you're the housing bailout generation who caused a major financial crash.

Obama was the first Gen-X President. Boomers would NEVER let a black man be president. Although they would not say it allowed, that's what their silent gen would do.

You're Welcome

I still collect Star Wars legos. They’ll be worth a fortune some day!

R89

I just spent a weekend with someone who worked very closely with Elon and his brother Kimball at their first company (2-lift? I’m too lazy to look it up but they basically put newspapers online) and she said that he always wanted to have a company and a website called X and that he was obsessed with that idea. I hate him so I didn’t want to ask much about him, ergo that’s my big takeaway. That and they all lived together in in a big house in Sunnyvale? San Jose? And worked constantly then would have house parties/concerts.

Re GenX:

I’m the odd dichotomy of the New Romantics music scene+President Reagan

I'm a meaningless stopgap between the boomers and the millenials

Obama is a Boomer, not Gen X.

Millennial complaints about Gen X are general, broad stroke, society-level complaints. Gen X complaints about Millennials are so much nastier and more personal. What generation, by and large, was responsible for the culture Millennials were raised in? We don't have to identify with the worst of these qualities, but we do have to acknowledge them. When we argue the point too strongly, we become the very thing we protest.

The millennials were raised mostly by boomers so I am going with Boomers, not that there is anything wrong with that or them.

I'm all generations still alive,starting back to the boomers.

I'm obsessed with looking/acting young by wearing a t shirt from my youthful prime. This means I'll wear the following:

Boomers: Rolling Stones Gen X: Nirvana Millennial: Disney

I look ancient to the younger generations.

R82, same here. Taught as a grad assistant for a couple of years with the goal of possibly teaching as an occupation. Was so disenchanted by the general poor skills and laziness that I ended up in a completely different field.

I have no retirement savings and never will. But I plan to off myself at age 49, so...

I'm the SPONGE

I'm the first generation to make overalls cool outside of their actual purpose - work wear

I'm NAPSTER and LIMEWIRE

I'm the AOL software disc everyone got in the mail that started it all

I'm brown makeup in the 90s.

I'm the last generation to not grow up with so many tech things that are totally normal parts of life now - the internet, large-scale online retail, everybody having a smartphone, social media, etc.

I’m the deeply ingrained homophobia from coming into my sexual prime during the AIDS epidemic. They all are homophobic.

[quote]Why are there so many butthurt millenials on this thread?

Don't tear your gash over it.

I'm Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and possibly the last generation in America that can write and read cursive.

I'm the rowboat I bought with S&H Green Stamps I collected from my mother's visits to the grocery store back when I was 11 years old

Gen X is the last generation that can actually spell and write properly. I've never seen such bad writing skills as I do now online. It's like an entire generation of kids just said, "Fuck it. I don't need to know how to do that shit."

[quote] Why are there so many butthurt millennials on this thread?

That’s just the way they are. It’s a feature, not a bug.

I like Gen Z. They’re way fucking smarter and less annoying than the millennials and even they seem to realize they’re a bunch of whiny ass crybabies. Kinda hoping that Z manages to inherit the leadership roles while millennials are bypassed. I trust them with the fate of the world over the whiners that wanted to talk about raises and promotions and working from Starbucks after their month at their first job.

[quote]Obama is a Boomer, not Gen X.

He's Gen-X. Apparently you cant read. The link I posted at R92 says that Obama is Gen-X because he's the son of a Baby Boomer. Parent and child cant be in the same generation label because they have totally different life experiences growing up. The world is not cut and dry like you think. Generations flow into each other.

[bold]"He’s the son of a baby boomer — his mother, Anne, was born in 1942 — and although his birth in 1961 puts him slightly ahead of the textbook mid-1960s start date of Gen X, he is the same age as the man who coined the term “Generation X,” author Douglas Coupland. "

I don’t whine and cry over every little thing, unlike millennials.

I’m not offended by Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

Parents and children can certainly be in the same generation just ask Lauren Boebert.

Obama could be on the cusp, but probably leaning more Boomer. There's no "official" starting and ending points for generations. Many academics, researchers, etc. start Gen X after 1961, more mid 1960s. Some might encompass 1961, but I don't see it a lot. As far as being born the same year as the guy who coined "Gen X" - people can create a category that may not apply to themselves.

Gen Z is less annoying? Now I've heard it all. This is the generation that considers 30 year olds who are dating 25 year olds to be pedophiles

R110 that's because Z-ers were raised by X-ers...they're much more pragmatic, especially the younger ones, and they seem to have inherited the sort of blase-ishness and disaffect of their parents. I like them too. Of course they have their snowflakes, but it seems more like a divided generation. I think that's because they were raised by youtube/tik tok were they can choose the content they watch and that fits what they like/agree with.

[quote] and they seem to have inherited the sort of blase-ishness and disaffect of their parents

That's called cynicism, dear R117. And I agree, the younger generations are already jaded and burnt out and look old before their years.

Wouldn't Obama be Generation Jones? The mini generation sandwiched between Boomer and X, as way to distract from the deficiencies of the whole Silent/Boomer/X/Millenial/Z nonsense.

I do like to think that Generation X played a large role in electing Obama. At least I hope we did.

[quote]Gen X" - people can create a category that may not apply to themselves.

If you read the book it's about his generational experience. He gave it a lable. So yes, he is entitled to apply it to himself. It's no different than coming out as GAY and then decades later everyone wants to call you Queer.

[quote]]Wouldn't Obama be Generation Jones?

Nope. Generation Jones is not a recognized thing. It's not happening. It's trying to fill the gap created by those who shifted the start of Gen-X from 1960 to 1965 after the fact. If you accept the original creator/author Douglas Coupland's definition of the generation- X, you wouldn't have that problem.

I made bullshit like "Reality Bites" and "Pump Up the Volume" to bitch about how young people are crushed by the inescapable pressures of authority and conformity, and meekly suggested MY generation would be different when we grew up.

Instead I became the most vocal generation in support of fascists like Donald Trump, and let myself be eclipsed in media, politics, and the economy by the Boomers above me and the Millennials below me.

No R97. Let Gen X count Obama as one of their own. That would put the start of their generation at 1961 and then they can STFU finally about what a small generation they are and how outnumbered they were against the Boomers. Isn't that what they are whining about?

R122 again, it's not about being eclipsed...we don't care about your petty stupid wars...we don't have anything to prove, and the fact that you can't seem to quite grasp that concept makes you, well, very millenial-ish.

Besides, I'd rather not be remembered than be remembered for mostly shitty stuff. Though at least Boomers have great music/films to fall back on for defense.

R124 We know. You're just here to watch it all burn.

Who taught you so much emptiness? Count yourselves lucky. At least you came of age when America was the only superpower left. The 1990s were an amazing time to be alive.

R117 yeah yeah yeah. That's another thing about Gen X. They're so self-congratulatory, always patting themselves on the back. In this case what great parents they are and how special they are.

I’m Gen X but don’t entirely identify with the stereotypes of my generation. I like (and often prefer) a lot of the music and films of Generation Jones (late Boomers/disco generation), and I think Millenials and Zoomers are refreshingly empathic generations who will save our backward country.

My parents were part of the Silent Generation, but they were quite protective of us, so never any latchkeys for my Gen X sister and me.

What we can gleam from this thread is that certain Gen Xers want to fuck Gen Z. Unfortunately for Gen X anyone older than 30 attempting to fuck a Gen Zer is a creep, sleaze, and pervert.

You may love the generation young enough to be your children but it doesn't mean they love you back.

[quote]Gen X. They're so self-congratulatory, always patting themselves on the back.

Well, to be fair, they got that training from their parents the Boomers. Since Boomers were so self involved parents and left their kids home all day without the internet or a cell phone, Gen-Xers had to learn to do it themselves. At least they didn't all need a participation award in every event at school even if they came in dead last. Or the Boomers who took credit even when it was not deserved.

r111 a person born in 1961 is Gen X.

R129 proving R126's point.

R128 nah I never liked young guys...always with my daddy issues....but I have several Z-ers and Alpha nieces and nephews that I use to draw my conclusions.

Btw they all love me, and I love them.

That's what I said R130. 1961 is Gen X.

Sorry, I meant a person born in 1961 is NOT Gen X. They're a Boomer.

R127 millenials were the "compassionate ones"....Z-ers are much more pragmatic and lessidealistic, at least as far as studies so far go.

Well, you are still wrong R134.

Gen X starts in 1964 or '65

My father was born in the 40s and is a boomer. It doesn't really make sense to me that Obama, born in the 60s, is the same generation as my father.

I actually think it makes more sense to classify people by the decade they were born in than these weird 15-18 year spans.

I was born in 1970. My experiences as a child and teenager were quite different than someone born in 1980, even though we are both Generation X.

The proliferation of personal computers, video games, VCRs, and things of that nature started before I was 10, but didn't really take off and become commonplace until the late 80s and 90s.

Hell, my first home video game was Pong, where you controlled a line segment, and knocked a square back and forth with someone controlling another line segment. I remember how excited I was to get an Atari 2600, which was a piece of shit, even for the time, due to its inability to display multiple sprites on the same line, resulting in a hellish, headache inducing, flickery version of Pac Man, that we were still excited to have. Colecovision seemed like a leap into the future compared to that.

A kid born in 1980 would very likely have had a Nintendo Entertainment System as their first video game.

We got a computer in the early 80s because my father worked for IBM, and they gave their employees a huge discount on the PC after they released it in 1980. Most of my friends did not have computers at home until the late 80s at the earliest.

Kids born in 1980 would probably have had one by the time they were 15 - probably with AOL or Prodigy

When I was a teenager the Cold War was still going on, and fear of nuclear war was high. Movies like War Games and The Day After caused us to worry about the future. I was 19 when the Brandenburg Gate was opened. Someone born in 1980 was 10, and likely didn't understand what that was about, but fear of nuclear war dropped off quickly after the wall came down.

The significant difference of this Generation is that it was the original baby BUST. Contraception and abortion, and less traditional views on marriage, all made birth rates plummet around the world.

Then in the eighties there was another big “boom”

That GenX has some good music and some asshole tech giants maybe has to do with being an underpopulated generation on the whole

Millennials and Gen-Z tend to jerk off with their non-dominant hand so the dominant hand can work the mouse on their computer. Gen X still uses their dominant hand because we had to wait an hour for a pic to download, and that was after we were 21.

So basically we hate our own children, the Millenials.

We don't all hate our own children.

Meh. You’re all a bunch of assholes.

Assholes, sure, whatever.

I'm Gen X and the generational things I really identify with are (1) being an independent/latchkey kid, and (2) the pop culture (music, TV/film, fashion etc.) of course. I guess the cynicism and blase-ness - I know that aspect of my generation, but actually have known plenty of earnest, hyper ambitious Gen Xers, as well; even when I was young.

From Reddit about the 1961 vs 1965 revised dates of when Gen-X starts.

"That’s just the boomers trying to take some of the cool kids into their fold. Fuck them. It’s our generation and we decide who’s in the club. 1961-1981 works well enough."

If you were born in 1961 you hit adulthood in the shitstorm of the early 1980s and never had the “here’s your super nice job and 2% mortgage and cheap college” that the boomers got. We had stagflation and high unemployment and then trickledown bullshit for our whole adult lives.

I'm the kid born in '69, to middle-class parents who let us kids do things every day that would, these days, get you a visit from Child Protective Services, such as:

--Walking alone 2 miles to and from school starting from age 5 --Lighting illegal firecrackers in the backyard --Riding bikes on deserted roads and without a helmet --Staying alone in the house at night starting at age 10

No one died!

R147, that's because your parents were Boomers. Who cares if little Timmy goes missing. Can always pop out another one after that job promotion to middle manager.

r147- I would take the El or the bus all by myself from Rogers Park to Uptown, sometimes downtown when I was 10 in 1975 Chicago. I usually saw my parents on the weekends. The downside to being alone is that you could really hurt yourself- I've burnt myself with an iron, got the needle from a sewing machine stuck in my index finger nail bed, almost burnt the house down twice, used to jump off the garage roof on to the ground when we had a huge snowstorm, had creepy men follow me around all the time, but I knew how to shake them off.

Dan Simmons, an author who used ot be a teacher wrote a forward (I think Summer of Night) about how the wandering radius of kids had shrunk from a 2 mile radius to nothing due to technology, gentrifying neighborhoods, urban development, and creepy pedophile abductors.

I find it odd that younger people, like gen-z and millennials are so caught up on what they read on Wikipedia as fact that they cant see past the errors that community website is known for. Insisting Gen-X starts at 1965 because it says so. Even if the actual people born in that time tell them otherwise and cant make the intellect leap to realizes the original dates defined by the people who lived it and created it might be the correct ones.

Someone born in 1961 who is supposed to be a Boomer and yet lets look at the reality.

Did I know anything about Vietnam? No.

Did I know anything about Woodstock? No.

Remember JFK? No.

Rode around in a bitchin' '57 Chevy going to the malt shop with my best girl? No.

Enjoy the benefits of work hard, be loyal, and the company will reward you? No.

Grew up in an intact, high functioning Leave it to Beaver/Father Knows Best household? Fuck no.

Get a 4 year college degree where the cost practically free and paying off student were seen as more of a suggestion than an obligation without even digging credit? No.

Participated in any of the iconic cultural and social aspects of Boomerworld? Not really. I saw a lot of their TV shows in reruns. That's about it.

Gen X has always started in '65

Someone born in 1961 would definitely remember Vietnam and Woodstock.

[quote]Gen X has always started in '65

No it has not, try reading up on it some time.

[quote]Someone born in 1961 would definitely remember Vietnam and Woodstock.

A 8 year old would remember Woodstock? It was in 1969.

R33 Because they would beat us when we bought them wrong cigarette brand or when they were drunk and upset about something else.

[quote][R147], that's because your parents were Boomers. Who cares if little Timmy goes missing.

okay, small correction. if you're GenX born in 1969, you're parents aren't boomers unless they were both fairly young, it's possible, but i'm born that year and my mother is Biden's age, and he's not a boomer, my dad was born in the early thirties. that also isn't a boomer.

Gen X with Boomer parents (like me) are likely to have the non-college educated, non-rich boomers for parents.

Gen Xers born in the second half of the 70s have Boomer parents who are college educated professionals. The older Boomers were in their 30s by then. Myself and most of the kids I went to school with had Boomer parents.

Everybody forgets about the younger Xers born in the later 70s.

And Gen X starts in the mid 60s.

And yes an 8 year old would remember Woodstock.

If you Google Generation X, most sources place the start year at '65. I don't know what the Aspie troll who insists Gen X started years earlier is thinking.

that is called Generation Jones

r155, I not only had to get the cigarettes, but my stepmother's stupid Ortho Gyno vaginal cream. God the embarrassment.

[quote]If you Google Generation X, most sources place the start year at '65.

You lost me at If you Google it. Maybe try research. There is a difference. Gen-X started in 1961, not my opinion. It's based on the FACT that the person who coined the term about his own generation. What happened is years later, insurance companies trying to put everyone in a box for ease of calculation hired a firm to make that determination and deiced 1965 was a better number to work with. Posted in on Wikipedia. Now everyone under the age of 40 just assumes it's fact.

If you Google lazy millennials, most people say it's true. See how that works?

[quote]that is called Generation Jones

Generation Jones is not a real generational group recognized by any official source. It's just too short. A generation is marked by a +20 year lifespan. The time it takes from birth to adulthood. Generation Jones timeline would only be 10 years. That's why it's not considered a legitimate category even though there are tons of internet articles about it.

But all of the named generations have characteristics of one. Boomers experienced social upheaval and the draft. Jones experienced no draft and universal TV. GenX, broken families and plummeting birth rates. Millennials, birth boom and booming economy. GenZ upheaval and social change via the ubiquity of the internet

[quote]You lost me at If you Google it. Maybe try research.

WTF do you think comes up in a Google search you Aspie motherfucker? Gen X starts in '65. Peace.

[quote]If you Google lazy millennials, most people say it's true. See how that works?

I'm actually Gen X and all I see that's NOT working is your Aspie-addled mind. You're full of shit.

[quote]It's based on the FACT that the person who coined the term about his own generation.

That motherfucker was a Boomer, bro. Just because he named Gen X doesn't mean he's part of it.

[quote]You lost me at If you Google it. Maybe try research.

Here's some research, fucktard. Gen X starts in '.

^^Gen X starts in '65

R165 = Triggered. Watch out.

Sorry Dear, Gen X starts at 61 when the INVERTER of the term defined it FIRST. By the way, you might want to stop calling other people Aspie when it's clear you are the one displaying that behavior.

Oh look R168 is butt hurt when I told him Google is not research and then he proceeds to post a link he found from Google to prove he does research. 😂😂😂

[quote]That motherfucker was a Boomer, bro. Just because he named Gen X doesn't mean he's part of it.

That's the most ridiculous justification I have ever heard. What make your opinion more valid than the man who actually created it? So Galileo was not an astronomer because years later the Catholic Church came along and labeled him a heretic? Just because the establishment of the time re-labels someone or something does not mean it's original label was not accurate. If fact it took the church 700 years to admit they were wrong.

[quote]WTF do you think comes up in a Google search you Aspie motherfucker? Gen X starts in '65. Peace.

Google: Generation-x started in 1961. See what you get.

LA Times - Gen-X definition starts 1961.

Forbes - Gen-X starts 1961

Encyclopedia - Gen-X 1961

National Geographic - Gen-X 1961

no sorry, Gen X starts in '65. Aspie mother fucker.

no sorry, Gen X starts in '61. Aspie mother fucker.

The Aspie who insists that Gen X starts at '61 is like Amy Schumer at Sasha's wedding

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Literally every first page google search says 1965 , moron

Why are you all fighting over the cut-off for a nonsense category?

You know what, never mind, whatever.

Oh so every thing that pops on Google first is correct?

Pop goes the Weasels

[quote]R177 X: The Generation That Changed the World

[quote]R174 They were supposed to be slackers. But today their successes are as plentiful as Web sites, and the words 'entrepreneur' and 'self-reliant' are more apt descriptions.

Truer words were never spoke.

This site is a shell of what it used to be. It's ok girls, you're both pretty.

"Truer words were never spoke".

R183 still thinks Google is the Oracle of Delphi.

I prefer the Big Bird GIF

I’m All Families Are Psychotic.

Did you call me R191

We’re our fire pits! We cook, live and party around and inside them yearround—including our outside-built ones, too! 😎

I'm the golden future which is waiting for me, like an expected inheritance, 30 years from now, in 2023. I've got plenty of time to fuck around

I’m fucking around and finding out

I’m the malaise and anhedonia.

I'm the dread

I once read a hypothesis that the cynicism of Gen X stems from the Challenger shuttle explosion. Kids who were old enough to grasp what was going on but young enough to not yet be fully indoctrinated in nationalism developed cynicism towards authority and life in general. The explosion laid bare the fallibility of those in charge and the reality that one could do everything right and it would still go up in smoke. IOW, everything is fucked up so why care? But, it's just a theory. Whatever.

R200 I would say it was how the threat of nuclear war war was rammed down our throat via movies like Threads and The Day After, sometimes required viewing at school. The inevitability of nuclear holocaust was prominent in the US culture at the time, so many of us believed we wouldn’t grow up and there was no point in planning a future. Seeing a woman piss her pants at the site of a mushroom cloud moments before imagery of people vaporizing to skeletons and then nothing will do a number. Mind fuck of a generation.

Fuck me gently with a chain saw R45, that sounds about right. But also it might be true of every generation old enough to feel distinct from younger folks.

R200 I definitely remember the Challenger, it was huge, especially if you lived in NY...I was in 1st grade and me and my siblings got sent home from school early. My older sister actually watched the live transmission in school.

Idk if I believe that theory but I always had an aversion to outer space probably caused by that.

On the other hand I was too young of an X-er to really experience the cold war fears....thank god, I was already anxious enough as it was as a kid.

PUNKY BREWSTER did a very special episode about the Challenger.

X-ers remember their Boomer parents voting for Regan and thinking WTF.

GenX remember their silent generation parents NOT voting for reagan and seeing them really sad.

to reiterate, GenX grew up with the confirmation that life is inherently unfair, you just have to take your lumps

Life is not fair, should be the common thread. I was told that all the time growing up. I cant imagine millennials or gen z being told that constantly.

My parents were staunch liberals, my Dad was a Bernie Bro, my mom still loathes Trump.

Douglas Coupland (who coined the term, "Generation X" (after the Billy Idol band, Gen X), "...felt that people his age were being misclassified as members of the Baby Boomer generation. 'I just want to show society what people born [bold]after 1960[/bold] think about things... We're sick of stupid labels, we're sick of being marginalized in lousy jobs, and we're tired of hearing about ourselves from others.'"

But he also, wrote, "This is going to sound heretical coming from me, but I don't think there is a Generation X. What I think a lot of people mistake for this thing that might be Generation X is just the acknowledgment that there exists some other group of people whatever, whoever they might be, younger than, say, Jane Fonda's baby boom."

So the guy that created the term Generation X says it applies to people born after 1960 and that the term is meaning less and just a way to avoid being lumped in with boomers.

I think Gen X starts in March 1964.

If you remember the Kennedy assasination, even if vaguely, you're a boomer. If you don't, you're Gen X.

[quote] —Your new overlord, a Millennial

We’re not too terrified of our “new overlords” who still have to call daddy to come change a flat when they’re 38 years old lol.

Or talk about “I don’t know if I have the social bandwidth to go out and do that” or other such nonsense

[quote]So the guy that created the term Generation X says it applies to people born after 1960 and that the term is meaning less and just a way to avoid being lumped in with boomers.

Yes, but by that theory, there would be nothing to fill the 20 year gap between Boomers and Millennials. That would extend Boomers all the way to 1982. Which would be very weird.

[quote]If you remember the Kennedy assassination, even if vaguely, you're a boomer. If you don't, you're Gen X.

Well, I was born 1 month before when was Kennedy assassinated. I can assure you I do not remember it. I consider myself Gen X. But the Aspie queen on here still wants to argue that I am a Boomer. She's fixated on what Google says at the top of the page and is clueless about things like paid link ranking like SEO marketing.

r215 Gen X starts in 1965. Full stop. All the research and demographics show this.

Gen X starts in 1961. Full stop. All the research and demographics show this.

Encyclopedia - Gen-X 1961

Google is not the Encyclopedia. Grow up and open a book sometime.

It starts in 1965. Do some research, you Aspie fuck.

It starts in 1961. Do some research, you Aspie fuck.

Encyclopedia - Gen-X 1961

You're hopeless. Starts in 1965.

Before Google there was this thing called the Encyclopedia R220. You know where facts mattered and it was not a conglomeration of amateur opinions.

[quote]R223 …a conglomeration of amateur opinions.

We resent such far flung slurs, and have solved many cases.

Encyclopedia Brittanica - Gen X starts in 1965

Britannica - 1961

Britannica - 1961

You're really basing it on that drug-addled fuck Douglas Coupland? :Look at r225.

Just because you coined a generation doesn't mean you're actually a part of it. Tom Brokaw and the Greatest Generation, for example.

Generation X includes those born between 1965 and 1981, during the reconstruction of Europe after the war. Their life has not been easy, since, after a period of upheaval, finding a job was a great challenge. To work and produce was their philosophy of life, leaving no room for idealism. Individualism, ambition and an addiction to work — or being a workaholic — are the values with which they grew up.

[quote]Just because you coined a generation doesn't mean you're actually a part of it. Tom Brokaw and the Greatest Generation, for example.

Tom Brokaw didnt claim he was from that generation though. He was writhing about his parents generation. Copeland was writing about HIS generation, and since he coined the term referring to himself when he was born, it's gaslighting to say he's not part of the generation he helped put a label to.

^^writing

JESUS FUCKINGJ CHRIST R230. GIVE IT UP

Stop gaslighting, read the book and then come back and argue he's wrong.

You can't do shit on DL without some Aspie Queen OCDing it to death.

Douglas Coupland's book, which you jerk off to, isn't part of the official narrative.

You mean with your 24 Aspie posts R234? Get out a mirror.

The guy that wrote the book is not part of the official narrative? That's rich, we would not have the term GenX, GenY or GenZ without him. Official Narrative? Where is that exactly? Is its some law only you know about? You sound like the hall monitor who hasn't been laid since 1965?

GIVE IT UP R236.

The US Government recognized Gen X as starting in 1965

The US Government also said we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud when we wanted to invade Iraq. We they right?

take the gas pipe r240. You're done.

The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory

"The Boomer generation spanned from approximately 1943 to 1960, but someone born in 1961 might identify with the Boomer generation, while someone born in 1959 might identify with Generation X"

I identify as an elephant. That doesn't make it so.

This isn't about identification. R234. Generation are defied by events that happen during a specific time period as well as the understanding that a generation is the time it takes to reach adulthood which is about 20 years. Someone who remembers the President of the United States being assassinated, Hippies and free love is different that someone who grew up as latchkey kids with MTV.

Gen X started in 1965 r244

Gen X started in 1961 R245. Would you give it up already. It's been proven here with numerous sources.

[quote]That would extend Boomers all the way to 1982. Which would be very weird.

Especially since the birth rate was so low during that period. The moniker stuck because there WAS a defining characteristic of this period _ VERY low birth rates.

Isn't there always overlap at the beginning and end of every generation - a period of years where people and (and the academics, writers, etc who study them) might place a subset of people born in a certain period of years in either of two generations? I usually see generation start and end dates expressed as ranges - and no universal agreement if trying to express the dates strictly.

ElderLez is for me a superb representative of GenX--independent, smart, wise, unassuming, great work ethic, and not one to get drawn in to a senseless cage fight about '61 vs '65.

Ethel Kennedy gave birth to #1 Kathleen in '51 and #11 Rory in '68.

You could've parked an 18 wheeler in Ethel's cunt. All the bitch did was shit out kids.

Yes, the last cusp generations have gone like this

Zenials-late Millenials/early gen Z, born aprox between 1993 and 1999

Xenials-late Gen X/early millenials, born between 1978 and 1984 (I'm actually part of this group)

Generation Jones-late Boomers/early Gen X, born between 1962 and 1968

I have seen cusp Gen-X listed as early as 1959 but 1961 is more common given it's history of the creator of the term. Generation Jones is really just one label for that but odd no other generational cusps seem to have their own cusp terms. Or do they?

Wait - what Gen X politicians have there been that have made any impact?

There are a couple of Republican assholes - but the majority of Congressmen/women are Boomers and even Silent Generation.

They're old as fuck.

Obama was considered the first Gen-X president at the time. Then he was rebranded as boomer and later said he thought maybe he was generation Jones even though that's not a real category.

Big Gretch R254

Kamala harris is the first

Okay, as a Gen Xer (1969), I could not care less if Gen X starts in 1961 or 1965.

But there sure as hell weren't any Boomers born in the 1960s.

Boomers are doomers

This gal says it all

R260 alot of truths but the girl is talking like the boomers didn't create a shit load of social changes and alot weren't rebelious when they were a shit more rebelious than the "no smoking no drinking no sex my mommy and daddy are my besties" millenials and z-ers. They were the fucking hippies for godsake. They contributed more to society than the overgrown baby generation.

And before you "ok boomer me" I'm a Gen X/Millenial cusper (born in 1980)

All that said, of course Gen X was the coolest.

r92 but Obama is a Boomer

R262, not according to half a dozen articles written about him. He was Gen-X until someone came along and shifted the goal post about 10 years later. You really need to pay attention.

r263 he is 62, he was never Gen X

R264, For fuck sake read the link R255

"He’s the son of a baby boomer — his mother, Anne, was born in 1942 — and although his birth in 1961 puts him slightly ahead of the textbook mid-1960s start date of Gen X, he is the same age as the man who coined the term “Generation X,” author Douglas Coupland. "

Or this one:

" But rarely mentioned is Obama's own generation, i.e., Generation X, the Lost Generation, whose name has been virtually erased from the national conversation. "

What ever it is, I am who i am

A person born in 1942 is Silent Gen. Boomers started in 1946.

Not according the the article r267. You are entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts.

r268 it's a fact that Boomers started in 1946. The Baby Boom after the war. This has been true for decades, and it's common knowledge.

Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom.

Boomers are 1946-1964.

I was at John Reed in West Hollywood today, and overheard a gentleman say to the employee giving him a tour, "This is a gym for Gen Z, not for me". I said I was Gen X, and he said, "Yeah it's for you too". He didn't appear to be a Boomer.

I am the teen nightclub. A literal nightclub for minors to partake of adult-style nightlife, unaccompanied by an adult.

I am the adultification and parentification.

I am a paperback book. I am always in the pocket or backpack of anyone worth knowing. I get passed around.

I am being "into" things. What one is into largely defines them.

I am a silky paisley shirt. I smell faintly of clove cigarettes, Drakkar Noir, and am peppered with little burns and holes from clove -cracklin's.

I am long, layered, singed bangs.

I am the lighter required to soften the sooty eyeliner.

I am my depression-era grandparents' attitude that the world doesn't owe you a living.

I am DIY. If you're the child of a struggling single mother, you become the family mechanic, handy-person, appliance repair person, field medic, etc.

I am glutes that have not been overdeveloped.

I'm at the Palladium shaking my ass to "I'm Gonna Get You" by Bizarre Inc. and "Got A Love For You" by Jomanda. After this we're going to Splash. I'm totally getting laid tonight!

Yup, that was me too

The Harvard Business Review - Obama our first Gen-X President.

I’;m shocked