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[–] [email protected] 129 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Hey Gen Z, first time being gaslit by boomers? Heh, yyeeeaaaahhhhhhh.......they do that. Now imagine having them as your parent, and you're 5, and you have to just live with their bullshit.

~Sincerely, Gen X and the older millenials.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

As shitty as my parents were, I'm suddenly grateful that they were pre-boomer. Still had to deal with stuff like listening to their bigotry, but having a dad that grew up during the Depression, and his own dad was out of work for much of it, meant that he never gave me shit for not being as successful as him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

However, I'm old enough to remember watching the boomers getting gaslit by the "Greatest Generation".

But yeah, as an Xer, it seems like we got the short straw. The boomers sucked all the air out of the room for so very long, that if the (mostly boomer- and Greatest Generation- led) media stopped giving them all the attention for a moment, it was to only label us the "slacker generation".

By the time the boomer narcissism's grip was loosened, the focus was mostly on to Gen Y, and if we are being honest here, due to their numbers, the media narcissism around Gen Y reminds me very much of the boomers, with Gen Z quickly catching up.

I suspect that's very much due to a numbers game - if advertising dollars figure they can center a particular group enough, they can scoop up all those $$$ by selling a certain age range a story about themselves...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 16 hours ago

"it'll all make sense when you're an adult"

well. i'm an adult now. some would even say old or middle aged. it still doesn't make sense

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

My parents were Gen X but they faithfully followed the boomer mindset

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I know many people in their 50s who are Boomer as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

The real Boomers were the assholes we met along the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm so glad as I'm close to my 40s I know so many fellow millinials who still thinks utter bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, a lot of Gen X went that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nuance is hard. It's all just binary, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Never said it was?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

my parents were silent generation.