Current Events > What is your general opinion of Gen X? What do you think of them?

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I think they're lucky. In a lot of Western nations they had a rising economic tide, they grew up with good and varied culture, in the present day they aren't locked in battle with any other generational cohorts, and they get to have good jobs, their own houses, and children.

Come to think of it, they're roughly as spoiled and priveledged as baby boomers.

Lazy, entitled whiney crybabies

That's a bit harsh.

Do not care.

I generally think of them as being as bad as boomers. I don't think they are a real distinct generation. Most of them have the same politics as boomers. Some of them have the same politics as millennials.

The 80s and early 90s were probably the best times to be a kid for later gen x. That era of toys and cartoons will never be matched.

Born in 85... not sure if that makes me a gen X.

Kombucha posted...

Born in 85... not sure if that makes me a gen X.

Not Gen X. Gen X is generally agreed to stop at 1980 although some push it to 1984.

YellowSUV posted...

Not Gen X. Gen X is generally agreed to stop at 1980 although some push it to 1984.

Ah thanks

boomers all of them

Kombucha posted...

Born in 85... not sure if that makes me a gen X.

Millenial (Gen Y). An older Millenial, but still.

Millenials were born 1981 to 1994.... give or take one or two years off each end depending on who you ask.

So anyone turning 29 to 42 (give or take a year or two) is a Millenial.

Basically boomer-lites.

Im Gen X and I absolutely LOVED my time growing up in the 80s and early 90s. I was born in 76 and I know we are all partial to the era we grew up in and nostalgic for it but I seriously loved growing up in the 80s.

As for what people think of my generation? I dont really care and for the most part we are often forgotten about as everyone focuses on boomers or millennials and thats fine with me.

I really don't like generalising about generations.

Some Boomers were destroyed by being made to fight in Vietnam.

Some Millenials became the vanguard of the Republican capitulation to the extreme right.

Whatever you are, the succeeding generations will resent you, just like the Boomers resented the warmongering; Gen X the neglect and the Cold War; Millenials th exclusion from economic prosperity.

Each generation will think 'no, we will be the empathetic ones to break the cycle!'. But wait until Gen Alpha is permanently pissed at you while Millenial President Gaetz and VP Boebert start their second term, and you forgot to set the hyperreality drive correctly.

My mom? Idk, they're ok. Like everyone else really. Better then Boomers, not as good as Y or Z. Surprise surprise

"Do I know Gen X? Of course, he's me"

are you ready *dundun*

ey you think you can tell us what to do
you think you can tell us what to wearrrrr
you think that cha better...

well you better get ready...

Take many of the negative traits boomers have.. then unironically trying to emulate the "badass" attitude of Fred Durst and Kid Rock.

The cringe generation.

foreverzero212 posted...

Take many of the negative traits boomers have.. then unironically trying to emulate the "badass" attitude of Fred Durst and Kid Rock.

The cringe generation.

OK Zoomer

foreverzero212 posted...

Take many of the negative traits boomers have.. then unironically trying to emulate the "badass" attitude of Fred Durst and Kid Rock.

The cringe generation.

You realize it was mostly Millennials driving those fandoms right? Most of Gen X had aged into their 20's when those bands broke. Blame Gen X for hair metal and grunge.

I think there was a time when they were idealistic.

They wound up largely having the same views as boomers, but they reaped drastically less of the rewards. They were boomers testing ground to fuck future generations and theyre very happy with their old people overlords for some unknown reason.

realnifty1 posted...

You realize it was mostly Millennials driving those fandoms right? Most of Gen X had aged into their 20's when those bands broke. Blame Gen X for hair metal and grunge.

Millennials were like 8 during their peak. Maybe emulating was the wrong word, Gen X was just authentically Fred Durst and Kid Rock as young adults.

foreverzero212 posted...

Millennials were like 8 during their peak. Maybe emulating was the wrong word, Gen X was just authentically Fred Durst and Kid Rock as young adults.

You're thinking of young milennials. Generations span two decades. Fred Durst's and Kid Rock's biggest audience were teenagers, and those were old milennials. There were some people in their early 20s who liked them but they definitely weren't the main part of the fan base.

action52 posted...

You're thinking of young milennials. Generations span two decades. Fred Durst's and Kid Rock's biggest audience were teenagers, and those were old milennials. There were some people in their early 20s who liked them but they definitely weren't the main part of the fan base.

If generations are long enough to group the Limp Bizkit lookin mfers of the mid 90s and the selfie taking scene kids of the late 00s then this ain't a useful cultural category. We need different words for these cycles, these people have no relation.

They and the boomers put out the best music. I like them and identify with them more than millennials with regards to pop culture but socially I'm more in line with my millennial birth.

foreverzero212 posted...

If generations are long enough to group the Limp Bizkit lookin mfers of the mid 90s and the selfie taking scene kids of the late 00s then this ain't a useful cultural category. We need different words for these cycles, these people have no relation.

To be fair, Millenials are actually broken up into Gen Y1 (older) and Gen Y2 (younger.)

foreverzero212 posted...

If generations are long enough to group the Limp Bizkit lookin mfers of the mid 90s and the selfie taking scene kids of the late 00s then this ain't a useful cultural category. We need different words for these cycles, these people have no relation.

Bizkit and Kid Rock are 1999,you are just thinking it was further back than it was. That said, you are right in that generations are long and people thinking of them as culturally homogenous is just as stupid as any other stereotype you might lay out for a large group.

I'm a Gen X'er and the Nu Metal stuff came out when I was in my mid-20's

They're pretty damn cool.

Most of the Karen's you see on social media are actually Gen X. They just got lucky zoomers don't have much of a vocabulary.

RyukSan posted...

To be fair, Millenials are actually broken up into Gen Y1 (older) and Gen Y2 (younger.)

First I've heard this, very interesting. Whenever someone says "millennials" it's exclusively been referencing the "younger" avocado toast, selfie, scene, tall tees and grillz.

realnifty1 posted...

Bizkit and Kid Rock are 1999,you are just thinking it was further back than it was. That said, you are right in that generations are long and people thinking of them as culturally homogenous is just as stupid as any other stereotype you might lay out for a large group.

I admittedly just based this off my childhood experience of a neighbor who'd drive me to kindergarten in '97. He'd be blasting what I see now is Bizkit's first big album and Korn so I associated it as mid 90s and never considered us the same generation and these 2 bands as millennial. Was sure they were a Gen X swan-song.

This has been informative, but the artists themselves being unquestionably Gen X will be my cope.

Millennials need an amnesty for liking Limp Bisket. Let's just call it a collective psychosis and move on.

We need another Vietnam. Thin out their ranks a little.

Its a quote from The Simpsons -___-

I am Gen-X, and I'm fine with my generation.

Boomer millennials have neevvveerrrr considered themselves millennial so it confuses things.

Also stop with the shade at Durst he's a vegan king now.

No negative opinion. They started the work life balance trend at work. Millennials and Z only popularized it.

Gen X childhood is the best.

LOL, at all the people saying that Gen X are just Boomers.
Our Generation basically invented, Okay Boomer.

Just because we didn't grow up with a Cell phone in our hand, does not make us Boomers in any way.

Tons of the first wave of Gen X got totally fucked by Boomers.

YellowSUV posted...

Not Gen X. Gen X is generally agreed to stop at 1980 although some push it to 1984.

Imo it works best if you just count every 18 years since the baby boom.

1946-64 = boomers 65-83 = x 84-2002 = Y/Millennials

A generation is supposed to be the time it takes for a baby to reach adulthood. When your baby is having their own babies, that's a new generation.

Tyranthraxus posted...

A generation is supposed to be the time it takes for a baby to reach adulthood. When your baby is having their own babies, that's a new generation.

I do like your years, so I am not going to argue with that.
But I do take into consideration the time lines thems selves.

Saying someone who was born say September of '84 tend not to have the same traits as high Millanials.

Also I would site 9/11 as a turning point as well.
Not know a Pre/9/11 world is right up there with the distinction of the end of WWII marking the start for Boomers.

SiO4 posted...

I do like your years, so I am not going to argue with that.
But I do take into consideration the time lines thems selves.

Saying someone who was born say September of '84 tend not to have the same traits as high Millanials.

Also I would site 9/11 as a turning point as well.
Not know a Pre/9/11 world is right up there with the distinction of the end of WWII marking the start for Boomers.

The concept of generation defining culture is dumb and arbitrary and borderline astrology nonsense. I just think it's important to be consistent. Really it's the other way around. Culture defines generations. Culture shifts happen from defining moments and generations adopt those shifts.

Really you've got the following things to consider between WW2 and present day:

1. Segregation/Integration, Bussing, Interracial marriage, etc and the civil rights movement in general
2. JFK assassination + space race
3. Nixon shit (Vietnam, Surprise alliance with China, Watergate)
4. Cold War propaganda & the fall of the USSR & tearing down the Berlin wall
5. The Internet becomes available for private use
6. Cell phones actually become useful to ordinary people
7. 9/11 privacy and freedom erosion
8. Civil Rights 2 (LGBT+)

Life was irrevocably changed after these things and your "generation" is really a mix of how many of these things you lived through.