Geriatric Millenial

[RedAngie]

Jan Brady may be the forgotten middle child, but she’s a full fledged Boomer, not Gen X.

 

[Traveling on cc points]

I was born in 1980 and there is no consensus what generation my birth year belongs to.

I don’t consider myself a millennial but even if I did, I wouldn’t be offended by this.
I swear, people search for things to be offended by.

 

[neverlandsky]

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

Boomer overlord

Now I like this title!

 

[fly girl]

Jan Brady may be the forgotten middle child, but she’s a full fledged Boomer, not Gen X.

Yes, I know, but Gen X grew up watching her daily on reruns being ignored and forgotten. We’ve taken her on as our poster child.

 

[dvcgirl67]

I've said it before and I'll say it again; Gen X - the most obscure generation. Professionally and politically oppressed by our Boomer overlords and now rendered socially and culturally irrelevant by our own Millennial children...

And this is why I love being Gen X.....we fly under the radar .

Speaking of Millennials, I saw an article that they are in a "Jeans War" with Gen Z. Gen Z is trying to bring back "Mom Jeans", and the Millennials are doing their best to hold onto their "skinny jeans". I saw a quote from a Millennial fashion blogger...."Yeah, we're not going to take fashion advice from the generation that ate tide pods."

 

[jrmasm]

Yes, I know, but Gen X grew up watching her daily on reruns being ignored and forgotten. We’ve taken her on as our poster child.

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As a member of Gen X, I decline Jan Brady as a poster child.

 

[unrequited23]

As a member of Gen X, I decline Jan Brady as a poster child.

I would vote for Daria or Angela from My So-Called Life, but I'm at the tail end of Gen X.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

I didn't even know we were Gen X, until I saw it on the DIS. I've never heard anyone mention it IRL, but I hear people referencing Boomers & Millennials all the time.

I was listening to a graduation commencement speech the first time I heard us referred to as Gen X and remember thinking, “We are?”

I was born in 1980 and have never felt like I really fit in with Gen X or the Millennials. Then came the term Xennial, the microgeneration born between 1977 and 1983. The generation that had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood. The last generation to remember life before technology took over. AKA, The Oregon Trail Generation. Yep, that’s me.

 

[ronandannette]

I was listening to a graduation commencement speech the first time I heard us referred to as Gen X and remember thinking, “We are?”

I was born in 1980 and have never felt like I really fit in with Gen X or the Millennials. Then came the term Xennial, the microgeneration born between 1977 and 1983. The generation that had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood. The last generation to remember life before technology took over. AKA, The Oregon Trail Generation. Yep, that’s me.

That's pithy but extremely insightful. And I totally get not feeling a "fit" anywhere. I'm an older GenX'er that was raised by "The Greatest Generation" parents with Boomer siblings and a Boomer husband. My only child is an older GenZ.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Oh those millennials born 1980-85 felt attacked today. All kinds of knickers in a bunch.

I know most women don't like the term either when it comes to pregnancy so I'd say it's not surprising

 

[Cheburashka]

I see Twitter got all kinds of upset over the term "Geriatric Millennial" that was used in a Medium article...Not one mention of Gen X which is crazy because we fit right in it that gap of bridging a divide between Baby Boomers and Millennials/GenZ. Oh yeah, that is right, you have to remember we exist first. LOL, silly me.

I'm a member of Generation X and my middle name is Karen. I might need to find some kind of support group.

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

I'm a member of Generation X and my middle name is Karen. I might need to find some kind of support group.

You are on a roll tonight. Whatever you are drinking, I want one!

 

[ronandannette]

I'm a member of Generation X and my middle name is Karen. I might need to find some kind of support group.

You can kind of understand the whole Karen thing though, right? When the only people forced to cater to you are 22 year old restaurant managers and off-shore call centre workers, you get it where you can.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

Lol, I am one of those "geriatric millenials" and I took offense to it too!

I always associated myself with Gen X so it was weird to be called a millenial, especially a geriatric one!

 

[Colleen27]

I was born in 1980 and there is no consensus what generation my birth year belongs to.

I don’t consider myself a millennial but even if I did, I wouldn’t be offended by this.
I swear, people search for things to be offended by.

I'm right there with you, and I love the Xennial label. Not quite Gen X, not quite Millennial. I definitely identify more with the Millennial descriptions and common experiences, but don't quite fit entirely because I did have a pre-internet childhood and adolescence. But most of the Gen X touchstones happened when I was too young to care, like all The Breakfast Club memes. I was 5 when that came out, and it was already a classic by the time I saw it.

The other one I find amusing, if only because it captures my childhood so well, is the Oregon Trail generation.

I can understand why people would be irked, if not genuinely offended, by the author's use of the term "geriatric", though. There are already terms, as I mentioned above, that have been coined to set older millennials apart from the rest of the generation, and they're far less loaded words to use when talking about a society and workforce in which age discrimination is rampant and being "old" equates to being irrelevant or undesirable. But it is a Medium blog. The more controversial word was likely chosen deliberately because all that Twitter outrage drives traffic far more effectively than good writing and a meaningful point.

 

[fly girl]

I know most women don't like the term either when it comes to pregnancy so I'd say it's not surprising

I was in that group of pregnant women. It didn’t phase me. But to each their own.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I was in that group of pregnant women. It didn’t phase me. But to each their own.

For sure (and I'm quickly approaching that age and it won't bother me) just saying it's common for that to grate on women (or in the case of your post have their knickers in a twist) right at the age being called out for the older millennial so I get it, that's all

 

[EACarlson]

I was listening to a graduation commencement speech the first time I heard us referred to as Gen X and remember thinking, “We are?”

I was born in 1980 and have never felt like I really fit in with Gen X or the Millennials. Then came the term Xennial, the microgeneration born between 1977 and 1983. The generation that had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood. The last generation to remember life before technology took over. AKA, The Oregon Trail Generation. Yep, that’s me.

I'm '81 and feel the same way, but hate the term Xennial as well. Calling me a Millenial is fighting words. I grew up in the time where the vast majority of kids only saw a computer at school, there was no internet, there were no cell phones. There was only one real video game system. We played outside and yelled outside the fence for our friends to come out and play.

 

[ronandannette]

I'm right there with you, and I love the Xennial label. Not quite Gen X, not quite Millennial. I definitely identify more with the Millennial descriptions and common experiences, but don't quite fit entirely because I did have a pre-internet childhood and adolescence. But most of the Gen X touchstones happened when I was too young to care, like all The Breakfast Club memes. I was 5 when that came out, and it was already a classic by the time I saw it.

The other one I find amusing, if only because it captures my childhood so well, is the Oregon Trail generation.

I can understand why people would be irked, if not genuinely offended, by the author's use of the term "geriatric", though. There are already terms, as I mentioned above, that have been coined to set older millennials apart from the rest of the generation, and they're far less loaded words to use when talking about a society and workforce in which age discrimination is rampant and being "old" equates to being irrelevant or undesirable. But it is a Medium blog. The more controversial word was likely chosen deliberately because all that Twitter outrage drives traffic far more effectively than good writing and a meaningful point.

I've never heard it before here today but I'm going to suggest a variation on the theme to my DS. He's an "old" GenZ'er who desperately wants to identify as Millennial. How about Zee-Lennial?