Talkin' 'bout my generation

[sabotabby]

Don't tell me I'm not X. I'm on the borderline between X and Y, but my mindset is pure X.

This rant is why.

Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really early tomorrow morning.

Generation X is tired.

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Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn’t even read the whole thing. It doesn’t want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.

Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal.

So I'm reblogging it on my LiveJournal. Hat tip to symbioid.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I think it's less aimed at Y and more aimed at whatever came after. Millennials? Those guys. At any rate, it's entirely counterproductive to blame them—or even to blame the Boomers—but the rant is still quite cathartic.

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Y and Millennials are the same thing—roughly ’80s through ’90s. Generation Z is just children, high schoolers at the oldest, so the references to entitlement, graduating during a recession, and shitty jobs are aimed at Gen Y, my generation. It just bothered me because the assumptions behind that blame are so conservative.

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, that’s very fair! That is when the ire is directed at society for taking so long to give a shit. It’s the attacks on the younger generation that bother me, since that’s not their fault, and people end up making points that amount to “I had(/have) to eat shit too, so if you say people shouldn’t have to eat shit, it’s just because you have an entitlement complex. Blah blah obligatory line about everyone getting a trophy because god forbid everyone should feel like they have value.” Which is pretty conservative if you ask me.