Gen X in the House!

This is from an exhibit at the Illinois State Museum called Growing Up X. I saw it posted on another social media platform and stole it. 😄

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JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

I'm glad someone cleared up that we are not boomers! Many of younger generations call us Boomers, when for me anyway, my parents were boomers.

bijouxbroussard · F

@JimboSaturn Some people also call teenagers "Millennials" when they criticize them. All the millennials are adults now.
(ages 27-42)

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@bijouxbroussard I just don't refer to people as anything now lol. But yes, I get confused as well.

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@JimboSaturn I think a lot of young people think "boomer" simply refers to "old people who I can't relate to", and are not aware that the word refers to a "baby boom".

bijouxbroussard · F

@JimboSaturn I’m a (late) boomer and my parents were part of the "Silent" generation.

bijouxbroussard · F

@DrWatson I think you’re right about that.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@DrWatson Yes I figured that is what they meant. It's like in the 60's calling anyone over 30 "squares".

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@bijouxbroussard I was born in 69 so I guess I am close to being a boomer.

bijouxbroussard · F

@JimboSaturn "Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30"?
Seems hilarious now. 😅

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@bijouxbroussard Totally absurd! Ageist little shits. These days 30 is the new 15 :P

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@JimboSaturn Wow, I haven't heard that term in ages! 😄

When I was in college in the early 70's, a friend of mine told me about his lab supervisor complaining about all the student radicals who were staging protests about the Vietnam war. He referred to them as "beatniks!"

bijouxbroussard · F

@JimboSaturn Yes. I was born in 1960 and the boom ended in 1964.