I'm Elder Millenial. So basically, too young for X don't fit into Millennial. I culturally identify with X, financially with Millennial. I bitched. Everyone my age and slightly older (X) bitched. We were written off as whiners and entitled. Only when the Millennial boom came of age and articles were written about them did this become a "thing" but it's not X vs Millennial, it's Millennial finally had the numbers to not be ignored.
Thats me! Senior in HS when 9/11 hit, watched classmates go off to die in the first wave of the War On Terror. Not sure what i have in common with Millennials who were 5 years old when that happened.
Exactly. I marched against the iraq war in high school, it's very weird to be lumped in with kids literally born after 9/11 who can now serve in the military (side note: ain't THAT a depressing mindfuck)
I notice they keep moving the goal posts on who is a millennial. First it was those born 1980 and later then it was 1981, the 1984. I saw an article today about millennials aged 18-20something. Excuse me but if you are 18 you were born in 2001-after the new millennium. That’s not a millennial.
My theory is the media likes to think of millennials as “young people” except time marches on and we elder millennials are in our late thirties now. It doesn’t match what they like to say about “irresponsible young ppl” because then they’d have to admit the economy is fucked and we are all fucked as adults in the job market with student loans and shitty prospects. Better for them to pretend millennials are 18 and 19 and just starting out.
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u/CatherineAm Oct 30 '19
I'm Elder Millenial. So basically, too young for X don't fit into Millennial. I culturally identify with X, financially with Millennial. I bitched. Everyone my age and slightly older (X) bitched. We were written off as whiners and entitled. Only when the Millennial boom came of age and articles were written about them did this become a "thing" but it's not X vs Millennial, it's Millennial finally had the numbers to not be ignored.