Am I the only one who's tired of Boomer Bashing?

When the Boomers were young they were all about peace, love and fairness. Then they all grew up and went to Wall Street and screwed everybody over. That is why they are viewed with such distain by the next generations...they were all a bunch of phonies.
 

Georgiagranny said:
The Gens seem to think Boomers created all the problems that exist or ever did with their generations. It's easier to point the finger than to look inside themselves for self-awareness and insight.
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I think "hindsight is better than foresight" as the old saying goes. That has layers of meaning. It can mean something for an individual, and it can mean something for humanity.

No generation could have claimed "we were perfect". We boomers have often grown wiser as we've come through the years. But so, I believe, did my parents. And probably my grandparents. But maybe the bigger picture is that problems or challenges now faced within societies have, in most cases, been building in one way or another for generations... maybe for centuries.

I can forgive the Gens for a lot of their attitude. I know my generation was often critical of the one before us. Plus my wife & I find that when people of younger generations get to know us, as individuals, a mutual respect & appreciation tends to grow.
 

I think it is just a handy label to shift blame to others dismissively. What those who use it will not admit is that it is a slur no different from the labels for groups and individuals that Hollywood put in Archie Bunker's mouth.

My understanding is that Archie was born on the cusp between Greatest and Silent generations, in 1924.
 
Come on, do you really think humans are all that much different if you were born in 1946, or 1964, or 1986, etc. There are no such things as "generations" like Boomers, Silents, etc. People are born continuously. Do people born on December 31, 1964, all behave and think like Boomers? And those, who were born on January 1,1965; all behave and think like GenXers. The concept of "generations" is a generalized, unverifiable, parlor game, like seeing faces in clouds.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Come on, do you really think humans are all that much different if you were born in 1946, or 1964, or 1986, etc. There are no such things as "generations" like Boomers, Silents, etc. People are born continuously. Do people born on December 31, 1964, all behave and think like Boomers? And those, who were born on January 1,1965; all behave and think like GenXers. The concept of "generations" is a generalized, unverifiable, parlor game, like seeing faces in clouds.
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No population is unanimous in their opinions, but there are general trends, and a vast difference in the generations. You can even hear it in their voices. You want to see them foam at the mouth? Say, 'Donald Trump'. Try it, it's fun.
Georgiagranny, you're my hero.
 
I never have any problems. I am a proud Baby Boomer. I just ignore the young ones if they start yammering on about theirselves and us.
I did work with this know it all punk a few years back. If you gave him advice about something, he would say, "Okay Boomer!" He was way too dumb to be one of us.
 
Did have avacado green fridge, but it's because I was a little kid and my parents, born 1916 & '19 bought them, not me! If anyone thinks *I* chose it, they're just confused!
 
Beezer said:
When the Boomers were young they were all about peace, love and fairness. Then they all grew up and went to Wall Street and screwed everybody over. That is why they are viewed with such distain by the next generations...they were all a bunch of phonies.
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Really? I must have missed the train. What gen are you?
 
One of my favorites is I read some kid said he hated us because of shopping malls! Flipping SHOPPING MALLS! I laugh every time I drive by the strip malls on every corner or have to drive all around town to shop, when I used to just go to the mall. You’d think these green goblins would wish we had malls now.
 
Nathan said:
Is there a source or example of Boomer Bashing that someone can point to?

I don't live in a bubble by any means, but I'm just not seeing it.

I do see countless instances [here] of Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z bashing...:unsure:
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Go to Reddit and search “boomer hate.” There are several sub Reddits. You don’t have to join to read the posts.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Not just Boomer Bashing but all the cr@p extolling the virtues of Gen X, Millennials (aka Gen Y), Gen Z.

JFTR, I'm part of the Silent Generation.

Boomers? Geez, I don't know any Boomers who have avocado green appliances, (faux) wood paneled rooms, shag carpet, kitchen carpet, landlines and the whole nine yards of "undesirable" home decor. Then there are the articles that insist on what not to wear, how to style themselves (including hair!) so as not to look like Boomers. All those articles we see about such? Dollars to donuts they've been written by Gen X or Gen Y.

I also don't know any Boomers who are wrinkled, flabby, old crabby-looking women, balding men who are equally as crabby looking and flabby, or who don't just look crabby but really are.

My take on Boomers is that they're fit, friendly, stylish, tech savvy, and not likely to hang onto useless stuff for their kids to inherit.

Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z? The ones who are old enough to have kids enroll them in everdamnthang whether the kids want to be involved or not. They run themselves and their kids ragged from this lesson to that, practice for whatever whenever. Lord only knows when they relax, have fun, sleep or eat a meal cooked at home while sitting down together and discussing their days.

If most of what I read is so, these over-achieving Gens are in credit card debt up to their eyeballs, have personal coaches for fitness, lifestyle and even job hunting. They're financially and emotionally exhausted and way too many have jobs they loathe but that pay so much they can't leave...yanno because that boat, that big house, those new or recent-model cars and those lessons for the kids cost big bucks.

Whatever on earth did the Silents and the Boomers do without all of the above? We survived in the world we had. The Gens? Seems to me that they're more inclined to keep up with the Joneses than the Silents and Boomers ever were.

Flame away!

ETA: I forgot to mention therapy. The Gens? They're in therapy. Not a clue about insight, personal problem solving, logic...therapy. Gotta wonder if their therapists are Boomers :rolleyes: :ROFLMAO:
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So, I see things a little differently. I'm a boomer.

I think back to when I was in my teens, and frankly I didn't have much time for older folk myself. The world they'd created didn't fit the ideas I had, the rules they'd put in place were antiquated and it felt like they held me back. It seemed that everything I did was somehow created to keep me chained to their notion of what was right and wrong. I wasn't a revolutionary by any means, but it certainly seemed back then that a lot of what there was wasn't fit for purpose.

Now, part of that was youthful exuberance and silliness. But another part truly was identifying issues that needed to change. I always keep in mind, the only constant is change. It is the job of the young to challenge society. It is up to them to make the world they want to live in. If they call us oldsters and fuddy-duddies, then that's because we ARE oldsters are fuddy-duddies!

We didn't simply survive the world we had, we created the world in the form we wanted it to be. We, in politics and business, enacted policies via our votes that we thought were good ideas. These shaped the society, and through our having children etc., educated our offspring in how we thought things should be.

Now, it is their time, not ours. So much has changed in our lifetimes, you can't even begin to write them all down. But those that follow us have inherited a lot of problems too. They face the same challenges we once did, and some of what they want will look revolutionary to us. Offensive even - but they must now take up the reins and guide the world.

As for the cosmetics (old, wrinkled etc), it's a topic that bothers me quite a bit. In the entertainment arena, for example, you're no longer allowed to look old, or to age. Even normal folk are fighting back with botox, face lifts, and all kinds of procedures to give the illusion of youth. It's such a shame, a veneer of fiction laid atop our bones. It's nothing to be proud of, imo.

Me? Well, I'm over-weight, my hair has grey streaks, and my eyes are getting worse. But my biggest hindrance are my knees. I can't get around as I'd want to, and I have constant pain that must be managed through the magic of pain medications (I've switched back to over-the-counter varieties, since the prescribed mild opiates did nothing). I don't have the energy I once had. Hell, I'll admit, I'm no longer the great lover I used to be. :D

There's no reason to hide any of that, imo. Let's bring it out, because it'll come to all. I'm beginning to think I'm actually going to enjoy sitting back and watching the world these younger folk make for themselves. I won't agree with all of it, but my time has come and gone. Let them play. They'll have dumb ideas, excursions to silliness, and they'll champion things they later will drop. Just as we did.

In short, I don't mind playing the pantomime villain. They're right - we're old. Bless their hearts. :D
 
Nothing about avocado appliances and shag rugs will ever be as bad as the millennial's industrial look; exposed pipes and metal ceilings have taken over all my local restaurants so that the noise factor is deafening and and home kitchens are beginning to look like the back recesses of Taco Bell.
 
Nathan said:
Is there a source or example of Boomer Bashing that someone can point to?

I don't live in a bubble by any means, but I'm just not seeing it.
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You and me both, never once heard any kind of insult. It could be that the decade extolled by baby-boomers, namely the sixties, I didn't get that involved in. Watching The Beatles in a dance hall or theatre accompanied by a cacophony of hysterical screaming just didn't appeal. The Swingtime Era from the early twenties through to the mid fifties and the rise of Elvis is a period that I have always enjoyed. The music, the fashions and the dancing, I have always loved it, still do.

We are off to see The Boogie Bumpers, swing style band tonight. There will be a mix from every generation there and nobody gets any sort of hang-ups about that. In fact it's quite a compliment when a young lady asks me: "would I mind dancing with her." History repeating itself, we used to ask older dancers much the same when we were young, their dance experience helps improve your own.
 
The only time I hear Boomer bashing is on the internet, and even that's a rare occurrence. My niece (in her late 20s) whined to my husband that she and her friends would never be able to afford homes because Boomers priced them out of the market. My husband said, "Oh, so you'll turn down any inheritances based on those escalated prices?" Stopped her in her tracks.

BTW, she's a sweet woman and she and her husband bought a home less than a year later.

As I recall, we were the generation who embraced the ugly motto, "Never trust anyone over 30." Wonder how that made our elders feel?

Our children and grandchildren are entitled to their moments in the sun. Heaven knows we baby boomers had a very long time there.

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StarSong said:
As I recall, we were the generation who embraced the ugly motto, "Never trust anyone over 30." Wonder how that made our elders feel?
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You're taking the saying out of context. It was in reference to our generation's war that took tens of thousands of our beautiful young men. We didn't care how our elders felt and the smart ones just laughed.
 
StarSong said:
The only time I hear Boomer bashing is on the internet,
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Boomer bashing is especially evident in the universities.


StarSong said:
0ur children and grandchildren are entitled to their moments in the sun.
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Actually, no-one is entitled to anything. We don't always get what we're owed.
 

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