Generation X is sick of your bullshit (millenials)

[arely staircase]

But whatever! Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its trophies-which were admittedly few and far between because they were only awarded for victories, not participation.

http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bullshit

[tonyt53]

1. Us baby boomers said the same thing. We weren't special and neither are you.

[AgerolanAmerican]

29. The "Me" generation weren't special?

Little bit of historical revisionism there, no?

The Boomers were so full of themselves they thought nothing of racking up an unprecedented mountain of debt for which they would put future generations on the hook.

[GummyBearz]

38. I disagree

Supporting a middle class life style including 2 kids and buying a house with one income from a union job makes the boomers special. My parents were boomers and did exactly that. And that hasn't happened for any generation since. You had it that good and you can't even recognize it? Amazing.

Imagine marrying someone and graduating today from a top 50 university with combined $50k student loan debt (this could easily be doubled). You have to pay a quarter of your take home salary to student loans, half of your take home salary goes to rent, the rest to buy food and gas. Tell me how you would support 2 kids and save up for a down payment on a house, because that is exactly what my parents did in the 60s.

Your generation was so special you don't even realize how special you were.

[raccoon]

64. A great many people didn't have those good-paying union jobs. Houses

were a helluva lot smaller then as well.

buying a house with one income from a union job makes the boomers special. My parents were boomers and did exactly that

[GummyBearz]

67. There is always going to be some class below the middle class

The point was, back then the middle class was far bigger and better off than it is today

[Buzz Clik]

2. Damn. I knew GenXers were emotionally arrested, but sweet jumpin' Jehoshaphat.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Generational labels are all bullshit

Nothing but older people talking shit about younger people. And it has been going on literally forever. Boring.

[FrodosPet]

6. And when today's Millennials get older, they will be doing the same thing to young people.

And so on and so on.

Getting older sucks beyond compare. But it beats the alternative.

[TubbersUK]

8. + 10000

[yardwork]

10. Agreed. "Kids these days..."

[FSogol]

59. Kids Today!

[FLPanhandle]

13. Yes, and to prove it a quote by Socrates

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

[Iggo]

14. Exactly.

[LanternWaste]

18. The corollary as well. 'Young people talking shit about older people...'

The corollary as well. 'Young people talking shit about older people... and it too has been going on literally forever. Exciting enough to comment on, but the fashionably disinterested and cool trendiness of youth compels us to call it "boring" for the sake of, well... the cool trendiness of youth.

It is odd that you call generational labels 'bullshit' in your premise while using them as supporting evidence.

[BeyondGeography]

20. That's just self-defense

Older people throw the first punch. The whole dynamic is a dead end distraction. Circumstances are what fundamentally change with time, not people.

[Marr]

48. Yes. And people who use them are usually telling you exactly what their own flaws are.

I've noticed it's usually the laziest people who like to complain about lazy young people.

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. Have to agree.....way boring

[Scootaloo]

4. This piece is laden with irony. Can't tell if intentional or not, though

Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal.

*snrk*

[Rebkeh]

5. Speak for yourself

This Gen Xer loves millenials. They bring me hope.

(Ftr, I did read the whole thing)

[RichVRichV]

24. Same here.

I'm proud of what the millennials have accomplished and how active they are. And I fully support them. As a Gen Xer I'm tired of having the baby boomers always decide things (we simply never had the numbers to counter them).

I don't begrudge the baby boomers but they are the generation that brought us Reagan, trickle down economics, and the DLC. I'm quite sure the millennials can do a better job once they start flexing their collective muscles. And I look forward to supporting them in the endeavor.

[braddy]

56. Brought you Reagan, how did they do that?

[stopwastingmymoney]

61. I agree with you, and I didn't read it 😛 nt

[GreatGazoo]

7. complaints about complaints

The standard of living in America has been in decline since 1968. There is a challenge in that for ALL of us. We live in a country that seems to be believe that being low income HAS to be punished. The equation is now even more stick than carrot (and the carrot is GMO btw).

We need more doers and less complainers. More actors and less audience. Higher expectations and lower healthcare costs.

for ALL of us.

[Iggo]

9. Wow.

X versus Boomers must be over.

Gotta drum up some new intergenerational hate.

Good luck, kids!

[Blue_Tires]

11. Co-signed...

[Javaman]

12. I was just thinking about this as I was walking the 30 miles to work I do every day...

uphill both ways in a blizzard while carrying the 150 pounds of paper work I have to process each and every hour.

then, if I get a lunch (you kids today are so lucky with the eating thing), I go and chew on twigs and gravel.

and let's not even discuss the complete waste of time of going to the bathroom. I'm holding it in until retirement.

-this has been a message brought to from the babyboom generation, now get off my lawn!

[Egnever]

44. This part I found funny

then, if I get a lunch (you kids today are so lucky with the eating thing), I go and chew on twigs and gravel.

When i was a kid the hours were 9-5 including an hour lunch paid. There was even a movie complaining about it.

Now days it's 9-5:30 with a half hour lunch unpaid....

Just saying that gravel might not have tasted good but at least you were paid to eat it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

49. Except for all the people who are connected

24 hours a day. There are people who basically live their jobs.

I say that but I am a boomer and I always worked a ton of overtime but I did get paid for it.

[raccoon]

65. Thank you. nt

[Hugin]

15. Don't look at me...

I'm Generation Jones.

Younger siblings to the Boomers and airline seat-back kickees to the Bratty X-ers.

Our motto: We don't count, so we don't give a damn.

Oh, and BTW... I get a real charge out of the Millennials. Go get 'em kids! w00t!

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

16. Are you sure you want to go there?

The bulk of the anti-vax movement seems to be Gen X. Are you sure you really want to toot that horn? As a Gen Xer myself, I find that dead embarrassing.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Every adult generation always thinks the generation after it is full of slackers.

It's cyclical.

I'm not a millennial, but I can't help but roll my eyes at Gen Xers going on about how millennial are self-entitled brats. The boomers said the same thing about us, and their parent's generation said the same thing about them.

[Happyhippychick]

21. We Gen X'ers are raising the milennials

We've got no one to blame but ourselves. But personally I love milennials.

[RandySF]

22. The real forgotten generation

We're those like my parents who were born in the mid-1930's to early 1940's.

[Arugula Latte]

30. That's my parent's generation too.

In some ways they might have had the best of the American Dream, if they were white. Yes they had the tail end of the Depression and WWII in their childhoods, but they were largely too young for Korea and then too old for Vietnam drafts. They came of age in a time when college was cheap and then one decent job, even a factory job, could get you a house, a new car every few years, vacations, etc. Medical and dental care didn't bankrupt you.

But now a lot of them (obviously not all) are bitter old rightwing racists who hate immigrants, don't want to pay any taxes, and think only they should be entitled to the good life. At least that's been my experience with my parents' peers.

[trackfan]

39. My brother, who was an early boomer, born in 1946, always referred to that generation

just older than him as "those guys that were only interested in hot rods".

[RandySF]

41. That's very true

My dad is crazy about cars and street raced in his youth.

[EllieBC]

42. That's my parents too. 1942 and 1943.

[LoverOfLiberty]

45. That generation was known as

The Silent Generation

Since we are on a generation kick, I can't recommend this book enough. It changed my entire perspective on generational divides and really helped me to come to terms with the Boomer v Xer battle.

[myrna minx]

52. Yep - I'm Gen-X - daughter of the silent generation parents, as well.

[Iliyah]

23. I'm 33 years old and almost all of my older cousins and friends usually

tell me is to "Keep living".

[JustAnotherGen]

25. From 2011 - and to be fair

Back then when I first read it?

I see it targeted at Millenials and Boomers.

And yes - for me it applies. A LOT of it!

And if people can't see the humor in the Cynical Assholeness of this - well wake up and smell the cynics! We are all around you. At our family get togethers that pretty much inspired the show "Modern Family".

[arely staircase]

27. For some reason it is making the rounds on FB again.

Personally I take it as humor but a lot of people seem humorless.

Not you.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. I think introduced Screaming Meemie to it a few months ago

There was a thread where a lot of gen xer's kvetched and bemoaned the Inhumanity of Our Existence! Or rather lack therof to politicians, marketers, etc. etc.

[MillennialDem]

26. From a Xennial: stfu Xer.

[Arugula Latte]

28. I'm an (old) Gen Xer, and I like the Millennial generation a lot better than my own.

I never fit in with my "Reagan Youth" peers.

This generation is more liberal, less racist, more accepting and open-minded and tolerant, more worldly, and much less susceptible to propaganda. They see through bullshit, like religion and political spin.

[JustAnotherGen]

34. My peers (born in 1973)

Were not Reagan Youth - the more 'avante garde' were Ross Perot supporters.

I also saw in 2000 how quickly my liberal friends and I got on the Bradley train!

[Arugula Latte]

36. Yeah, I was born in the mid-60s, so we started high school in the very early 80s.

My family was middle class, but my high school was swimming in rich white kids who loved them some Izod shirts, Topsiders, and Ronnie Raygun. Ugh.

[Bonobo]

31. No we don't. We like you a lot.

It's the fucking Baby Boomers that piss us off.

[Jesus Malverde]

50. Lulz

[raccoon]

66. Not the way to win hearts and minds. All boomers didn't have it so easy as

you apparently think.

[highprincipleswork]

32. Is that why they have a tendency to be so uncaring towards others? That's a shame.

[JustAnotherGen]

35. Naah - it's because we were all a bunch of Latch Key Kids!

And we had to EARN our trophies and ribbons!

But that's okay. Generation X is used to being ignored, stuffed between two much larger, much more vocal, demographics. But whatever! Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its trophies-which were admittedly few and far between because they were only awarded for victories, not participation.

[highprincipleswork]

37. Well, I do empathize with that state of affairs, but suggest looking into attachment theory,

and you might heal some of your own wounds, and actually enjoy that even more.

In the meantime, you're right. Feeling too entitled is not a good thing either. But too much "self-sufficiency" isn't all it is always cracked up to be. Working together and in unison is really the only way peoplekind has survived.

[JustAnotherGen]

40. Um lighten up

Seriously - it was a joke.

I c/p'd from the article.

I guess that really does make me a Gen Xer -because I can laugh at anything. Some say our defining movies were Higher Learning and Reality Bites. Nu-unh. I say Clerks and Office Space - and Half Baked - because well -

It was easier to buy weed at 19 than it was a six pack of beer. They didn't ask for your fake id.

[GreenEyedLefty]

43. This Gen-Xer loves millennials!

I am really excited about young adults nowadays.

Or maybe I'm biased because my oldest daughter is 25 and has never asked me for a penny... when she was without a job, she hustled her ass off and cobbled together 3 or 4 part time gigs in order to make ends meet before finding her current full-time position.

One thing I can say for sure, they are sick of our shit and aren't taking it lying down anymore.

[RandySF]

46. As I get older, ladies get young

God bless milenials.

[Odin2005]

47. This Millennial is sick of Gen-Xers shitting on us, accusing us of being "spoiled entitled brats".

[struggle4progress]

51. Damn worthless no-good young-uns racing dangerously down the streets

in excess of 15 miles an hour, spooking the horses

Plus they crank up those victrolas at all hours of the night and scandalize the neighborhood with their naughty dance recordings

I actually saw a young woman -- I won't call her a lady -- sitting on a young man's shoulders the other day

[surrealAmerican]

53. Why do we keep seeing this crap ...

... pitting one generation against another? We're all in this together. We are the wealthiest nation the world has ever know. We can take care of everyone. We don't need to attack young adults to benefit older adults, or vice-versa.

[DemocraticWing]

54. Please God, if I'm still here in 20 years will somebody remind me not to say stuff like this?

[Oneironaut]

57. Will you swing a broom at people walking on "your sidewalk?"

(AKA my insanely Polish great-grandmother? )

[Oneironaut]

55. Every generation finds itself superior,

forgetting that it acted in the same way. Your generation was full of whiny brats. Sorry to break it to everybody. You just have a mental bias and don't remember.

[DonCoquixote]

60. I hope this is satire

especially as a Gen Xer. Look, to those that agree with the OP, maybe you are jealous because instead of taking smoke breaks, going whatever, and idolizing Kurt (whose music was not even the best of his generation), the Millennials are actually trying to DO SOMETHING about it. It may be silly, it may be futile, but when these kids are in their 40's, they can at least say they gave a damned and tried.

To quote the Boomer artist that Kurt quote in his suicide note "it's better to burn out than to fade away." Sadly, people like this op chose to fade away. If that is what being a Gen X is being reduced to, then fuck that. Of course, I know it is not, but that this is just another thing put in the spotlight so that the rich among the Boomers can point top it and say Se,, we were the last youthful generation to mean anything" w suit them just fine as the last of their Generation eats the last of the earth, gleeful that they no longer have to pretend to give a damned about anybody but themselves.

My every Boomer who chose to demonize and exploit Gen Xers or Millennials live long enough to enjoy a rest home staffed by the same kids whose future they spent.

[herding cats]

62. This article is 5 years old.

Not that the angst has necessarily changed, but I think many GenX people have since given up on ever having a niche.

It's a generation over looked and never really marketed to. In modern society, it's as if they're an asterisk in history, which is sad. They honed much of our culture, imagine what rock would be without their contributions? Metal, punk, rap and grunge were honed from their advances.. Sure, film sort of sucked, but I think they resisted the herding there better some other generations to be honest. ESee their music for a hint at that (ignore hair bands, WTF were they thinking?!) They hated being told how it was going to be and lashed out in their own way. Problem was, no one was listening since they were sandwiched in between two much larger generations.

I'm a GenX I recently learned (I think?), but whatever. I'm not about labels, and I have friends both above and below my generation. We can all learn from each other. And, hey, even if I'm not as competitive as some of my slightly younger peers at work, I work amazingly well on my own, and need less personal validation for my input. <---- riffing on the stereotype for those who don't get my humor. 😉

Lather, rinse, repeat. This crap never changes... All we can do is not bother to validate the silliness of it. We don't have to "clan" up against each other. We're all in this together. That's reality.

[Reter]

63. This Xer can't stomach them, let alone stand them

Most of them anyway.