Do you feel that your generation is largely misunderstood? Why or why not?

[Anonymous]

[WhiteSteve]

I feel like my generation is invisible right now, lmao. All I hear about is Gen Z, Millenials, and “Boomers”…. and I think everyone over 40 is just getting incorrectly lumped in with Boomers, who are now “the elderly.” If we’re middle aged and not retired, we’re Gen X. Let’s try to get it straight, haha. Please don’t “okay, Boomer” us, it makes you look foolish😝

I’m kind of enjoying watching younger generations adopting our old styles without really making the connection. Like “I’m dressing like you did when you were young and cool, yet you’re currently middle-aged and I can’t even imagine you ever being young, so I don’t really attribute any of the swagger-jacking TO you, it’s just vaguely inspired by cool people from the past who must have just disappeared from the face of the Earth. No WAY Uncle Jimmy was ever cool like this…”😂

About a month ago I was at a store, and there was a teenage girl there, but I thought I took a wrong turn into 1994. Scraggly shoulder length hair, Alice In Chains t-shirt (name me THREE AIC songs without looking it up, kid, I CHALLENGE YOU🤨😝), baggy jeans…she was 90s Grunge incarnate. Like if you hit me on the head and woke me up, and she was the only other person there, I’d have thought I had time travelled, haha. To her credit…. NAILED the look. *I* felt younger just witnessing it, lmao, I was 15 again, not that I was a grunge kid, I was into hip-hop and wearing all my clothes two sizes too big for me🤦‍♂️😂

Side note: I remember the July or August ‘96 issue of “The Source” magazine had a back-to-school fashion article, right as I was entering my senior year of high school. They were trying to make those goggles like dude in the gif is wearing happen…. happy to report they did not catch on, but I ALMOST went out looking to buy some, to be on the cutting edge of style. I don’t have a lot of fashion regrets from the past, certainly plenty of styles I wouldn’t cultivate today, but nothing where, in the context of the time, I’m like “gahhhhh, that’s embarrassing.” And NOT taking the cheese on those goggles, that I never saw a SOUL in real life wearing (because obviously😂), is the reason I can still look back fondly on those years, lmao

[WhiteSteve]

Forgot to say the grunge chick had on a flannel shirt on over the t-shirt. If there’s no flannel, it ain’t grunge😂

[D_Bone_Steak]

You're definitely from my time.

[WhiteSteve]

@D_Bone_Steak better, simpler times. Take me back, haha

[D_Bone_Steak]

I know right... all I did back then was rollerblade street hokey, steal all the Nirvana cassette tapes, and put boulders in those blue mailboxes. There were no phones and everything felt way more down to earth. A lot of changes since those days.

[Shiprex]

This is relatable and seems too real like when will Alice Cooper have another hit?

[MisterWack]

Gen Z being pushovers and ‘soft’.

Speaking up against a corrupt cabal of billionaires, speaking up against injustice, speaking up for those left out without a voice, and not being afraid to put our necks on the line for change isn’t being pushovers or soft.

I will tell you complaining about the youth having a voice when you didn’t, complaining about how we aren’t dying in a war like their relatives did, or whatever it is being soft and allowing ‘mainstream corporate entities’ to get away with atrocities just because you agree with them politically is being a major pushover.

Speaking up on key issues like environment, union busting, mass lay offs, infectious disease, housing market, etc. isn’t being soft but, refusing to do so because of the negative backlash that come from it is being a pushover so I won’t stop.

[Anonymous]

No, on the contrary I feel my generation deserves the criticism it gets. I especially have a problem with the lack of empathy they display, as well as their constant need for validation, lack of emotional depth in the way they interact with others, performative activism, transactional mindset towards relationships/friendships.

I find most of their content on social media depressing. Here are a few examples: I recently saw a TikTok post with thousands of likes where the creator said, "Unfollowing or blocking all mfs after I step off the graduation podium," and people in the comments were acting like this was the coolest thing ever and agreeing that you should unfollow all your classmates as soon as you graduate. a) why did you follow them in the first place, if you don't like them as a person and b) what about all these influencers you're following on social media. Do you speak to them? Have you even met them in real life? Hypocrisy at its finest. Here's another example that shocked me: there was a video, where two girls were walking in the snow and one of them fell.. The video said, a true friend will laugh at you, whereas a fake friend will ask you if you're ok and check on you-i found that one l quite scary.

I feel I can't relate to most people my age and steer clear of them, as I'm afraid of being roasted behind my back on social media (I've seen this happen a lot

[Tamera952]

Ohh pllluuueeease. This question is so fu*’king boring. EVERY generation, at one point or another, feels misunderstood. And of course, they all are to some degree. But big whoop, we’ll all be lumped together by century by people in the future, and all our nuanced differences will be meaningless.
Plus, …. why are you asking this question anonymously?

[236color]

No, I'm 65, technically a boomer. Being one of the largest generations and having been here as long as we have and studied as much as we have, I think we're understood pretty thoroughly. In answer to many younger people, yes you're right, by and large we suck. It's sad to, we had so much promise. We actually got our country to stop a stupid and unnecessary war. In the 80s however, our parents managed to seduce us into materialism, and like everything else we did we over did. I'm sorry Gen X, Millenials and Gen Z. I hope you can save us, even though we really don't deserve it.

[NicholasRedone]

Especially going on 31 - I'm not technically supposedly a Gen Z, or Zoomer, yet if you look at me, or knew me, and my lifestyle, even when I was 18 or 20, I've always been a mixture of conservative into progressive into very progressive.

Life's funny like that, hmmm? 😋🙃😋🙃😈🤳🏻 📱 I didn't use a smartphone until I was 24 in 2020 before Covid however I did always have a side by side Nokia phone dumb phone and iPod touches 2x throughout my late teens around 2011 or so to 2020 - how's that for being the best of both worlds - Gen Z or Gen Millennial, I sure am misunderstood my generation sure is - whichever or both ever, they are 💘

[OneViewpoint]

I think it's completely normal human behavior for every new generation to bitch and moan about how stupid their parents generation is. The past sucked.

I think it's completely normal human behavior for every older generation to bitch and moan about how their kid's generation is going to hell. The good old days were great.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I don't believe that "my generation" or any other of "their generation" exists.

As I don't see valid reasons to give credit to this idea. I think of it as a shallow concept made up for entertainment and/or disarray by random press and fearful management. Some sort of food for the masses, so they can pretend they're understanding something deep?

[HawkPerception]

I think my generation (millennials) is largely misunderstood by boomers and even Gen X which have a very different persoective of life and what's important, work ethic, how to raise children, etc.

There are so many reasons behind this, but I'll leave it at that.

[ProbablyClueless]

No, Millennials aren't misunderstood at all, we just incapable of functioning. We were raised to be a bunch of anxiety-ridden, flaky, ineffective, naive, immature, over educated idiots, and that's exactly what we have become.

The only misunderstanding about Millennials is Boomers realizing that raising us this way was a bad idea.

[Hellraiser1984]

I was born in 1984. I don't know where I fit in. Just like my entire life I don't fit in anywhere. Everything I was taught as a kid is wrong now. The family oriented sitcoms I grew up with are what I hold onto. The values they taught me stay with me. Today's sitcoms has no values or redeeming qualities. It doesn't give us an ideal to live up to it just shows that f Ed families are normal and ok. I'm not religious it's just I think the world's too messed up today.

[D_Bone_Steak]

My generation is full of fags and retards (melinials). Thankfully I was born on the cusp between gen x and those fags/karens... so I just claim gen x.

[Pet68]

Yes, I definitely do. People, especially younger ones, tend to conflate us with those hated Boomers! We are NOT Baby Boomers! They were born between 1946 and 1964, whereas us X'ers were born between 1965 and 1982.

[Alex-Snow]

I'm 19 and I think all generations have been misunderstood for one reason or another.

[DrPepper12]

Fuck no!! Gen X DGAF what you or anyone* else thinks unless you were THERE!

*Yes boomer, you were there BUT YOU were the ones that needed a reminder it's 10

[andreasderjuengere]

"My" generation isn't just one type of person.
Misunderstood... perhaps. But I don't mind, actually.

[Fantastic-User]

Yea but that’s just kinda how every generation is with the next one

[FreyaRed]

Yes, but I think this is normal and will happen with every generation

[TheSpaceGnome]

Generations aren't 1 type of person, so I feel that all generations are largely misunderstood.

[RedThread]

I think people are largely misunderstood in general. We can extrapolate that and apply it to many groups of people.

[es20490446e]

It's not. My generation is just normal and balanced.

[beefcakebradybatson]

When we Boomers were young, definitely, but we've become today's Greedy Geezers !!!

[kaucky1]

Most seem nice but misunderstood but this not my time

[Anonymous]

My generation is X, yes, I think we are kinda misunderstood.

[Godihateyou]

Im Gen X. Being misunderstood means you understood

[Manuelwe]

No the AI always get it wrong

[MemeSupreme]

yes no

[Elena85]

Doing what we did but updated generation.

[bgnakey]

No and I don't know