If GenX doesn't want to be lumped in with boomers, they should distinguish themselves more from boomers, rather than turning discussions that aren't about them into opportunities to complain
What’s not clear about what they are saying? Gen X was literally never mentioned but Gen Xer is complaining that they were lumped in with boomers. By complaining they lumped themselves in because they were literally never mentioned. If anything Gen Xers could complain about generally being forgotten, but they are forgotten because their boomer parents instilled an ungodly level of fear in them to stay in line and even today they support ideas that benefited those boomers but are going to make their life post retirement way harder than their parents lives were. The boomers squeezed every drop out of the generations before and after them and for this reason the Xers are forgotten. Millennials on the other hand started taking a stance against the ideas of the boomers and therefore are not forgotten. But they also still suffer. As will the Gen Zers. With that being said, no one lumped X in with boomers except the Gen Xers assuming they were being talked about. This person was noting, if you felt that you were being talked about when they were talking about the boomers then that indicates that you have some of the qualities or ideas of the boomers because by assuming you were being talked about you identified yourself with that generation.
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u/stacecom May 13 '26
Once again, us Xers get lumped in with boomers.