Tired of Boomers being blamed for everything!

People seem to fall prey to language distortions all the time.

It is common now to equate "conspiracy" to "conspiracy theory" and both to "lunatic fringe." Of course that just shields actual conspirators, which are real and pernicious.

Here we have "entitlements" which in reality are things you are "entitled to" because they are yours, set-asides that you funded. In contrast "Social Security" Disability is a welfare program that was not self-funded but was (very cynically) placed with the SSA to administer. Nobody is "entitled to" that no matter how much good it might do for society.
 

PurplePansies said:
I am just sick and tired of everyone blaming Baby Boomers for every flippin’ thing wrong with the world! There’s a story on Fox this morning how Millennials are now whining that we aren’t available 24/7/365 to babysit, for free. Then the comment section is full of Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z piling on!
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Some "news" media specialize in cultivating outrage, discontent and divisiveness. There was a similar thread on the forum not too long ago.
 
Nathan said:
Some "news" media specialize in cultivating outrage, discontent and divisiveness. There was a similar thread on the forum not too long ago.
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Yes, the media is definitely manipulative by the mere fact of what they choose to report. Fox doesn’t control the individual comments, though. Whenever there is a story like this, the “children” can be quite nasty.
 

dilettante said:
I just ran into a podcast today where millennials wallow in self pity and spew blame. One was a Canadian blaming her parents for having 3 children and thus not leaving enough time, money, or real estate to provide for her as she is entitled to. Hate for her country just dripped from her words. Another was a guy from the U.S. claiming almost the same thing, except countering that his country and parents are even worse to poor little him.
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It seems to be an epidemic now of blaming parents for everything. And while some parents are abusive, even the ones who aren't, who were good parents who tried to do and say all the right things to their kids as they grew up, are getting tarred with the same 'abuser' brush.

I noticed a few years ago, that we started seeing more and more articles and posts on social media about 'getting toxic family members out of your life' and since then, more mentions of family estrangement of various degrees. Are we just all more open to talking about every last thing that bugs us in this society or is there really an explosion of family crap and estranged parents and kids? It's like which came first, the chicken or the egg situation.
 
Our (my sister and I) parents were young adults during WWII. They had tough lives being born in 1926, 1927 respectively. My Dad actually fought in Europe and was wounded going into Düsseldorf, Germany. He was hardened from that year he spent in the Army. He was still a loving father, but he did not take much before seeing we got it done...

We consider(ed) ourselves to be 'Boomers'! As early boomers we developed 'thick skins' where any of this talk about 'boomers', just never mattered. We knew who we were, end of story!
 
Oh, hell, yes I am! But take heart. The young have always blamed the generation before them. They even found ancient Egyptian hieroglypics complaining about their parents' generation.

My favorite is crazy clown world is your fault because you didn't speak out/fight/protest anything. Not only did I often getting viewed as the crazy lady for my efforts, well, my standarad answer to that is also true: What makes you think we had any more political power than you do?

Not only didn't we, if anything the common man has more now. At the very least, they can organize a protest much faster utilizing social media.

I also come back with if you don't like what you see, change it. When that stops them could or makes them whine I can't, I simply say exactly. Shuts the ageist jerks up every time.

But I also won't tolerate boomers who stereotype millennials and zoomers as all alike. No, they're, thank God, not.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Our (my sister and I) parents were young adults during WWII. They had tough lives being born in 1926, 1927 respectively. My Dad actually fought in Europe and was wounded going into Düsseldorf, Germany. He was hardened from that year he spent in the Army. He was still a loving father, but he did not take much before seeing we got it done...

We consider(ed) ourselves to be 'Boomers'! As early boomers we developed 'thick skins' where any of this talk about 'boomers', just never mattered. We knew who we were, end of story!
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And most of the time, if you make an effort to explain to someone who's being hostile about 'boomers' or whatever age group one might be, nobody is convinced of anything and they continue to harbour the negative thoughts. People don't seem. to listen to anyone anymore.
 
MarkD said:
What do you call the generation before us boomers? I was born in 53' but my wife in 42', surely that doesn't make her the 'greatest generation', does it?
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You'll see variations of this:

Greatest Generation 1901-1924

Silent Generation 1925-1945

Baby Boomers 1946-1964

Generation X 1965-1980

Millennials 1981-1996

Generation Z (Zoomers) 1997-2012

Generation Alpha 2013-2025

Boomers are the largest generation in history , Zoomers the smallest generation. There goes the labor force just when we will need them.
 
hearlady said:
You'll see variations of this:

Greatest Generation 1901-1924

Silent Generation 1925-1945

Baby Boomers 1946-1964

Generation X 1965-1980

Millennials 1981-1996

Generation Z (Zoomers) 1997-2012

Generation Alpha 2013-2025

Boomers are the largest generation in history , Zoomers the smallest generation. There goes the labor force just when we will need them.
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Yes, I have seen several variations on the years for each generation. One I have seen shows Millennials as the largest generation. In your post above Baby Boomers spans 19 years, Generation X spans 16 years, Millennial spans 16 years, Generation Z spans 16 years. Based on 3 extra years in the Baby Boomer generation you have to expect it to have a larger number of people in that generation.
 
Pepper said:
Since most of us blamed our parents for most everything,
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Yup... I blame my folks for beating me, forced work and ideologies...
Otherwise known as discipline, work ethics and respect. ya know everything most of the current generations are missing.
Its funny this came up in conversation the other day, the fact that my mother and I both fall into the Boomer classification.
 
PurplePansies said:
are now whining that we aren’t available 24/7/365 to babysit, for free.
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Our DIL is constantly asking us or her parents to watch the Grandson because she has this or that to do. Both for over night or for the weekend. And she only has him half the time. DW and I thought back and we came up with the times we left our kids for more than just an overnight...
ALL 4 TIMES.....
 
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I saw a bumper sticker on a car that said "Hey boomer" I had to Google it when I got home. Some kind of insult apparently.

Even on the abuse forum I go to there have been some ageist type posts. One poster linked a YT video where a young therapist was talking about how baby boomers messed up their kids. Total BS. Trauma knows no generation. They can shove it. I'm not putting up with it.
 
Devi said:
I took that up in some other forums quite a while back. Some poster was saying we're "entitled" because we get Social Security and Medicare. So I said that many of us paid into those for 30-40-50 years, and if they didn't like it, then just give us our money back.

Silence ...
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OMG, the ignorance. I'll bet they will take the "entitlement" when they reach the age!
 

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