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7/5 punky brewster way pregnant
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\_ Cute little Punky Brewster... the good 'ol 80s when I grew up.
2 decades later, she got fat, ugly, and too busy endulging
herself with latte fratte & capuccino that she doesn't care about
anything else except with things concerning herself. In a way,
that is like many of us, a typical apathetic and lazy Gen-X that
our media accurately stereotype us to be. Gen-X is one the most
pathetic generation out there. You heard me right. Whereas our
parents were in-tune with the environment, were sensitive to
social inequalities, and were filled with a sense of honor to
change the world for a better place, the Gen-X were too busy
buying the latest Yuppie toys, drinking Starbucks and obsessed
with making money without doing hard honest work to earn it.
Shame on Gen-X. It's TIME FOR INTROSPECTION.
\_ You need to take off those rose colored glasses about the Baby
Boomers and stop listening to what your parents told you about the
60's.
\_ Our parents protested against war, bombed institutions,
dropped out of school, and did drugs. They made big news and
caused our politicians to think twice. Maybe the effects
were not always what they intended, but the fact of the
matter was that they had guts and passion. Fast forward to
us Gen-X. We were too busy with ourselves and our Atari,
Colleco, Nintendo, and Sega. We don't give a damn about
anything but ourselves. They say that there's always a
bit of truth in stereotypes, and the media is right on
target.
P.S. The fact that there are many GenX on motd and only 1
addressed or came to their defense says a lot about the
so called apathetic GenX.
\_ Just out of curiousity, did YOUR parents do those
things? Also, most of that crap was in response to
the draft. You see a draft these days? Also, most
hippies became yuppies. Big protest.
\_ I read on this liberal blog the other day that women
often gain weight during pregnancy.
\_ Go see the movie, Wallstreet. That is your parents' generation.
Thankfully, I was born after the Boomers but before their kids,
the so-called Gen-X kids so whatever you and your horrible
parents do to the world is not my fault. There aren't enough
of us "in-betweeners" to even get a catchy media created label.
\_ Just curious, what year where you born? I was born in 1965
and I consider myself part of the first Gen-Xers.
\_ Go find a chart showing how many new borns there were for
each year from 1945 to now. 1965 is the very tail end of
the baby boomers. Between 1966 and about 1972 or so births
were way down (comparitively), then they shot up again as
the post-WWII boomers started having kids. From ~67 to
maybe 71 or 72 you're neither boomer nor "gen-x".
\_ My impression is:
1950: Boomers
1960: In-Betweener
1970: Gen-X (video game generation)
1980: Gen-Y
Correct me if I'm wrong
\_ I thought: Gen-75, Gen-Y: '80+, also the kids of the
boomers are Gen-Y, not Gen-X. I was born in '76,
and consider myself young for Gen-X, but too old for
Gen-Y.
\_ You are wrong .. j/k.
I think t is:
boomers: 45-65
Gen-X: 65-80
Gex-Y: 80+
I qualify as a Gen-Xer mostly because I went to college
late, so all my friends are born in 1970 or so, but I
really think 1965 is right on the cusp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X |
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| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X globalization, brings together roughly two divers e generationsthe baby boomers and the baby bustersunder the rubric of "Generation X". However, many older Generation Xers frown upon the class ification of those born in 1980 or 1981 as "Generation X". The current p opular classification of Generation X culturally in the United States is those born between 1964 and 1979, which is accepted by most people as t hat which is most relevant. Paul Fussell's 1983 book Class, where the term "class X" designated a region of America's social hierarchy, rather than a gen eration. However, this term has transcended its roots in that country an d expanded into other areas of the West. edit The western dimension As Coupland explained in a 1995 interview, "In his final chapter, Fussell named an "X" category of people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-roun d of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern exis tence." Developing countries, which make up the vast majority of the global population, have a Genera tion X that differs from that in the West, due to poor education and lit tle disposable income. "Baby Busters" was, in fact, the only name to be used for this generation before Coupland's book was published. In continental Europe, the generation is often known as Generation E, or simply known as the Nineties Generation, along the lines of such other E uropean generation names as "Generation of 1968" and "Generation of 1914 ". Nirvana expressed the frustrations of a generation forever doomed t o live in the shadow of its elders. As is common in generational shifts, Gen-X thinking has significant overtones of cynicism against things hel d dear to the previous generation. Some would also argue that it is not mer ely the idealism of the 1960s that Generation Xers reject, but a deeper cynicism of the fact that such "idealism", inevitably doomed in its grat uitous navet, so quickly gave way to an era unequivocally focused on c ommercial and industrial progress; a period which incubated many of the problems facing their, and coming, generations. They fantasize about how the 1960s and 1970s supposedly offered Boomers easy sex without consequ ence (though this was still available to the Gen-Xers who came of age in the 1970s) while resenting the lasting damage done by an era in which t hey now realize they were the babies adults were trying so much not to h ave. Interestingly, however, while Generation Xers are often considered to be non-ideological politically, the generation has given birth to some extr emely persuasive and decidedly ideological political thinkers and writer s of many different kinds. Nonetheless, even ideological Generation Xers still appear to clash as much with prior generations and their ideologi es and institutions, as they do with each other ideologically. Other people born in the described time period reject the ideological lab els as not particularly useful, and point to social class, geography, an d other factors having far more influence than chronology. r atings (which had little effect outside the United States). Divorce beca me common place and affected families of all social and economic backgro unds. Naturally, Gen Xers were affected by the continual bombardment of images of the nuclear family and feelings of inadequacy and isolation fr om society resulted. AIDS and blighted courtship rituals, the y date cautiously. Divorce rates grew, however significant alternatives to traditional marriage (from remaining single to same-sex couples to me rely "living together") also arose. Internet rendered face-to-face communication second ary, books beside the point, near-infinite knowledge on hand at all time s, and tech-related jobs a hot commodity. In jobs, they embrace risk and prefer free agency to loyal corporatism. |