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Baby Boomer generation is 1946-1964, which would make them 59-77. I expect only the younger range is likely to still be middle managers. Maybe it's just me, bu

by shard 3y ago

Baby Boomer generation is 1946-1964, which would make them 59-77. I expect only the younger range is likely to still be middle managers. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the use of "boomer" as a derogative to be reductionist and ageist, not to mention most of the time incorrect, as I've seen it applied all the way to Millennials.

smeej 3y ago
They've been criticizing my generation for receiving the "participation trophies" they gave us as kids, as well as screwing over our entire economy with shortsighted self-protectionism, so I definitely mean it in a derogatory way against people their age. To be fair, I criticize them for the shit they did when they were my age too, so I'm criticizing them as a cohort, not because of their current age.
- shard 3y ago
  > They've been criticizing my generation for receiving the "participation trophies" they gave us as kids Are you sure that the people doing the criticizing are the same people giving out the trophies? > so I definitely mean it in a derogatory way against people their age The way you had used it, as commentary on middle managers, seem to include people from Baby Boomers all the way to Millennials. > I'm criticizing them as a cohort, not because of their current age In which case it sounds like using the age identifier would be incorrect.
  - smeej 3y ago
    Yes, 100%, Boomers are the parent generation of Millennials. They spent our whole childhoods giving us participation trophies, and our whole young adulthood criticizing us for having received them. I criticize them as a generational cohort for being the most entitled, wasteful, short-sighted generation that has ever lived, and has done more to screw up the entire world they are handing on to their children than anyone in history. They have done this at every stage of their lives, but especially once they were old enough to be having children.
    - shard 3y ago
      > Yes, 100%, Boomers are the parent generation of Millennials. They spent our whole childhoods giving us participation trophies, and our whole young adulthood criticizing us for having received them. I don't mean as a cohort, I mean as individuals. I have my doubts that the exact same person who has given out participation trophies is the one who criticized. I think you are mixing two separate groups into one, by using their birth years as a commonality. Also, I suspect that participation trophies is a Western creation, perhaps even an American phenomenon, and the Boomers who are not part of those cultures did not participate in those actitivities.

by shard 3y ago

smeej 3y ago

They've been criticizing my generation for receiving the "participation trophies" they gave us as kids, as well as screwing over our entire economy with shortsighted self-protectionism, so I definitely mean it in a derogatory way against people their age. To be fair, I criticize them for the shit they did when they were my age too, so I'm criticizing them as a cohort, not because of their current age.

shard 3y ago
> They've been criticizing my generation for receiving the "participation trophies" they gave us as kids Are you sure that the people doing the criticizing are the same people giving out the trophies? > so I definitely mean it in a derogatory way against people their age The way you had used it, as commentary on middle managers, seem to include people from Baby Boomers all the way to Millennials. > I'm criticizing them as a cohort, not because of their current age In which case it sounds like using the age identifier would be incorrect.
- smeej 3y ago
  Yes, 100%, Boomers are the parent generation of Millennials. They spent our whole childhoods giving us participation trophies, and our whole young adulthood criticizing us for having received them. I criticize them as a generational cohort for being the most entitled, wasteful, short-sighted generation that has ever lived, and has done more to screw up the entire world they are handing on to their children than anyone in history. They have done this at every stage of their lives, but especially once they were old enough to be having children.
  - shard 3y ago
    > Yes, 100%, Boomers are the parent generation of Millennials. They spent our whole childhoods giving us participation trophies, and our whole young adulthood criticizing us for having received them. I don't mean as a cohort, I mean as individuals. I have my doubts that the exact same person who has given out participation trophies is the one who criticized. I think you are mixing two separate groups into one, by using their birth years as a commonality. Also, I suspect that participation trophies is a Western creation, perhaps even an American phenomenon, and the Boomers who are not part of those cultures did not participate in those actitivities.