Georgiagranny
Well-known Member
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
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
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I was thinking *I* lived in a bubble because I haven't noticed, either!
