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The elderly? I'm drawing a blank.
by 4star3star 2y ago
The elderly? I'm drawing a blank.
- hyeonwho4 2y agoI'm guessing that one is "Boomer", but I don't think it is so taboo that it cannot be uttered yet.
- zxexz 2y agoDepends on the context and social circle, like lots of post-slang terms for a class. It can be endearing (or endearing and patronizing), a general insult, a common adjective…
- cduzz 2y agoThere's obscenity and there's violence. Some words imply the person you're insulting is unsavory. Some words imply "I have power over you such that I can do anything I want and you can't stop me." The degree to which this violence is allowed in a culture also conveys the power of the word in play.
- zxexz 2y agoI just saw your response to this - that's an excellent and concise way to explain this. Thank you. There're many categories of violence, and semantic violence can evoke any and all of those.
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- walthamstow 2y agoLikewise. Boomers aren't typically elderly, yet. Even when Alan Pardew (and I take great pleasure in being the first to mention his name in this forum) called opposing soccer manager Manuel Pellegrini "a fucking old cunt" it wasn't perceived as a slur on his elderlyness. It was the cunt bit that got him in trouble - and, even then, not that much.
- chgs 2y agoBoomers are 60-80 years old. That’s elderly.
- ffsm8 2y agoTbf, streamers, kids etc constantly call people in their thirties boomer. I feel like it's becoming a word describing people that have passed their prime (~35+ yo). Yes, I'm fully aware that the word initially described people that were born during the baby boomer years (~1950) and that the people that are currently 35yo are millennials.
- ptsneves 2y agoI am 35 and I was called a boomer by some youngling colleagues. I laughed like a true boomer full of sneer that those younglings are all a bunch of lazy losers that will not amount to anything as great as me all their life. I am pretty sure the generation before me thought the same and so on. It is great!
- walthamstow 2y ago> typically 80 years ago was 1944 - not exactly a boom year. Most are 60-65-70 and would not consider themselves elderly. It's a very loaded word.
- SoftTalker 2y ago50s are "late middle age", and 60-65 is the crossover point to "elderly" in my book. You're likely in the last couple of decades of your life by then.
- chgs 2y agoIn most western countries your 60s is when you start drawing an old age pension. The post ww2 boom started when people got home so births from about 1946. Those people have been drawing US social security for over a decade.