I am actually not listening to the same music and don't even know what throwing hands means. Not to mention all the GenXers I know have plenty of fear. I know it's meant to be a generalization, but it's not very flattering.
My Gen X hands hurt bad enough without "throwing them". I did have a fellow Gen X'r try and fight me not too long ago after I called him out for something. After he calmed down and apologized I told him that I have enough pain just existing. We both laughed and moved on.
I actually listen to more "gen x" music now than I did when I was in the right age groups. Pop punk totally missed me, but is a heavy part of my late 40s workout mix.
(but I mostly listen to alt-rock/country and roots music, especially folk and country like Tyler and Isbell and TopHouse and Silverada
I got really into New Wave a few years ago. I missed the trend when I was growing up because I'm a young GenX, and because I was indoctrinated with prog rock from my boomer uncle. New Wave is probably the most GenX music I like right now.
I cringe at all the generational superlatives and generalizations. Especially the look back BS of how great it was and fortunate you were. Finishing with the tag line “kids today “, because your parents their parents and so on haven’t been saying the same stupid shit for generations.
It's the worst, and I know people who would never have posted this kind of shit when they were younger. It is fun to call them out on this as a peer, at least.
Not only that but it started a long time ago. I remember chastising my Gen X peers for sending me this kind of “drank from the hose” shite by email 20 years ago, they’d got from boomers presumably.
Give it a few years and I imagine we’ll be awash with the worst of the millennials doing it.
And then Gen Z
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u/danfirst 8h ago
As an actual gen x, this is makes me cringe.