😆 great read! Gen X here, a TikTok-type gen z recently started at my workplace, I don’t get fussed over much, but when she has to “disengage”, “decompress in a safe space” because she’s “triggered” (I ain’t joking), it takes every bit of strength to hold my 💩 together 😅
Way to lump half a decade's worth of Boomers (people born in 1960-64) into the Gen-X data.
Furthermore, those Boomer years had more births per year than did the Gen-X years. E.g., 3.2 million babies were born in 1974 compared to 4.2 million in 1962. [Cue Gen-X eyeroll.]
The salient feature of Gen-X is that there aren't very many of them. Skeezes like Hawley and Cruz notwithstanding, there aren't enough Gen-X voters to move the needle on anything, good or bad.
Why do people keep showing this chsrt and making these claims about Gen X? The oldest Gen X is 59, so why is the chart 45-64 and not 45-59? I want to see that data.
The oldest Gen X is 59. This chart lumped a large group of boomers into this data, so it's completely inaccurate. There aren't enough genix voters to deliver anyone
great post, and right in my wheelhouse. my weekly post drops today and is all Gen-X. as noted in the comments, birth years are an imprecise metric to identify our cohort. I'm a geriatric Gen-Xr at 60, born in august of 1964.
But my parents were Boomers, so that makes me an Xr. If your parents were of the Silent or Greatest Generation, you're a Boomer, not an Xr. Even if you were born in 64 or 68.
Gen-X isn't a set of years, it's a set of principles. Number One of those principles is freedom - of thought, of expression, of movement, of relationships. We have been saying "fuck authority" since the divorce and our single mom safety-pinned the house key to our shirt in 2nd grade.
So this election was a final countdown, of sorts. Gen-X is now in charge. Take a backseat and shut the hell up.
😆 great read! Gen X here, a TikTok-type gen z recently started at my workplace, I don’t get fussed over much, but when she has to “disengage”, “decompress in a safe space” because she’s “triggered” (I ain’t joking), it takes every bit of strength to hold my 💩 together 😅
Lol ... I can only imagine.
Safe spaces are silly
Way to lump half a decade's worth of Boomers (people born in 1960-64) into the Gen-X data.
Furthermore, those Boomer years had more births per year than did the Gen-X years. E.g., 3.2 million babies were born in 1974 compared to 4.2 million in 1962. [Cue Gen-X eyeroll.]
The salient feature of Gen-X is that there aren't very many of them. Skeezes like Hawley and Cruz notwithstanding, there aren't enough Gen-X voters to move the needle on anything, good or bad.
Agree. I keep seeing this chart and I'm starting to think this was done intentionally.
Indeed they finally feel like including us to throw us under the bus… and just tossed in some Generation Jones (lil boomers) to mess with us.
Why you add 3-4 years worth of Baby Boomers to GenX? What if you actually removed non GenX from the GenX data???
Why do people keep showing this chsrt and making these claims about Gen X? The oldest Gen X is 59, so why is the chart 45-64 and not 45-59? I want to see that data.
Yup some bs data analysis. Lazy ! And we are the slackers?!
Great article. Things that impacted Gen X's mindset:
1. Cold War Fear of the soviets
2. Nuclear Winter -
3. AIDS epidemic
4. Watching our parents go through massive layoffs and recessions
5. We were in mid 20's, when September 11 happened
6. Gen X was most represented and did the fighting for War On Terror and Iraq War
As for all the above and called out - we are a tough, resilient, no BS group.
Makes sense that the ridiculous over reach by far Left this last decade was put down by Gen X delivering Trump.
The oldest Gen X is 59. This chart lumped a large group of boomers into this data, so it's completely inaccurate. There aren't enough genix voters to deliver anyone
All the good things you say about Gen X is what I always thought of my (Boomer) generation. Sadly, it looks as though I was mistaken.
great post, and right in my wheelhouse. my weekly post drops today and is all Gen-X. as noted in the comments, birth years are an imprecise metric to identify our cohort. I'm a geriatric Gen-Xr at 60, born in august of 1964.
But my parents were Boomers, so that makes me an Xr. If your parents were of the Silent or Greatest Generation, you're a Boomer, not an Xr. Even if you were born in 64 or 68.
Gen-X isn't a set of years, it's a set of principles. Number One of those principles is freedom - of thought, of expression, of movement, of relationships. We have been saying "fuck authority" since the divorce and our single mom safety-pinned the house key to our shirt in 2nd grade.
So this election was a final countdown, of sorts. Gen-X is now in charge. Take a backseat and shut the hell up.
https://riclexel.substack.com/s/open-letter-to-gen-x