Damn Boomers, Damn Media

[kebbykate]

I apologize in advance to anyone who is a member of the Baby Boom generation, but really, people...

So I'm reading my latest issue of Newsweek, which has a little article (p. 10) about the new version of that PBS favorite "The Electric Company" which will begin airing next week, an lo! A reference to Boomers!

Excuse me?????

Boomers?

That's right, here

Comments

identity crisis

[anwar_jones]

so wait, am I a millennial? My parents are not boomers but they aren't "Greatest Generation" either because they didn't actually fight in WW2, though they vaguely remember it. I feel that the people born between 1978 and 1982 (or so) really end up being neither X nor Y (or millennial) which may just be a conceit on my part (you can't quantify me!) but one of the things that defines "generation" is the answer to the question "What was happening when you were young?" and for people who are going to be 29/30 this year a lot of the really important stuff that people bring up about pop culture of the last 20 years seems like it happened just before (grunge) or just after (britney and the tweens) we were in high school. I know that's not all but I think it speaks to the oversimplification that you are addressing above.

this went on much longer than I intended.

Re: identity crisis

[cad_red_ducati]

you are a "late Gen Xer" also known as a "nintendo Gen Xer" as am I. when we were in middleschool/ high school everyone played Nintendo, when K and C were in middle school/ high school everyone played Atari, so they are "Atari Gen Xers"

Anne is an old Millennial, I don't know if they have cute names for older and younger Millennials.

Re: identity crisis

[gerbil_lady]

Actually, your father and I are pre-boomers, he having been born fairly late in the Depression of the 30's and I in the first year this country was involved in World War II, which I used to understand made me a war baby. I don't get all that upset about it, but it seems to me that people of our vintage, too young for the Greatest Generation and born before 1946, get no attention - or label, anyway - as a group because there simply aren't that many of us, compared to the Baby Boomers.

Shrug . . . sigh . . . oh, what the dickens . . .

Re: identity crisis

[cad_red_ducati]

Mummy- you and my father and G are all members of the "Silent Generation" born during the 1930's and the war. you guys get a cute generational name too!

[cad_red_ducati]

that isn't cool, they can't have those shows. I'm sure you are right about the media having to have a "boomer" angle on everything. Newsweek probably knows who mostly reads their tripe.

are you going to write a letter to them? point out the stupid?

as indivials, boomer-age folks are fine, but as a group, I agree with you, they are self-absorbed and obnoixous. and they didn't invent all that stuff, sex, drugs, rock and roll.

oh well, that's what we get when we have a generation so fawned over in their childhood.

[kls_eloise]

Don't forget Schoolhouse Rock. Periodically a certain slice of the department will break into "Conjunction Junction" whilst the older and younger members all look on in perplexed amusement.

It's interestingly one of the places where the age gap between my husband and I is hugely visible. I grew up on Schoolhouse Rock. He is too old for it himself, and it was gone by the time his daughter was born 21 years ago. I can't imagine how anyone could *not* know it, and he had no idea what I was blathering about until I was able to buy the DVD and show him.

Charlotte will definitely know Schoolhouse Rock. What better way is there to learn how a bill works it's way through Congress than in song?