Setting aside the polarized nature of named generations, as a class; for these are entirely arbitrary and designed to create polarization …
I have a theory on the “Gen X are forgotten” meme. Yes yes, you Gen Xers got shafted, here’s a cookie 🍪 Please hear me out.
Most people fall on the cusps of their “generation” and Gen X is no different - in this case, you’re either old enough to identify more with boomers, and are shouting “snowflake millennial” with them; or you’re young enough to identify with millennials, but still too old to identify with Gen Z, so you’re shouting “cringe zoomer” with the millennials, who are cuspers themselves and don’t identify with Gen Z. The quintessential Gen Xer is rare. But you always know when one is around because they are quick to point out that Gen X was “forgotten again.”
The sad thing is that many of the so-called boomers are being replaced by so-called GenXers. And the millennials shouting the same inter-generational slurs will eventually take the throne of generational bully
Gen-X is a much smaller group than either Boomers or Millennials. It is treated differently mostly because of this. I don’t think we’re going to start treating Gen-X as the bully, because it just doesn’t have the numbers to be an effective bully
The only millennials I give a shit about are the ones who made my life painful as they entered the working world and even then, away from the office as long as they are not trying to police speech we are chill.
Yes, but …
Setting aside the polarized nature of named generations, as a class; for these are entirely arbitrary and designed to create polarization …
I have a theory on the “Gen X are forgotten” meme. Yes yes, you Gen Xers got shafted, here’s a cookie 🍪 Please hear me out.
Most people fall on the cusps of their “generation” and Gen X is no different - in this case, you’re either old enough to identify more with boomers, and are shouting “snowflake millennial” with them; or you’re young enough to identify with millennials, but still too old to identify with Gen Z, so you’re shouting “cringe zoomer” with the millennials, who are cuspers themselves and don’t identify with Gen Z. The quintessential Gen Xer is rare. But you always know when one is around because they are quick to point out that Gen X was “forgotten again.”
The sad thing is that many of the so-called boomers are being replaced by so-called GenXers. And the millennials shouting the same inter-generational slurs will eventually take the throne of generational bully
Gen-X is a much smaller group than either Boomers or Millennials. It is treated differently mostly because of this. I don’t think we’re going to start treating Gen-X as the bully, because it just doesn’t have the numbers to be an effective bully
The only millennials I give a shit about are the ones who made my life painful as they entered the working world and even then, away from the office as long as they are not trying to police speech we are chill.