@Skoon
The generations (X, Y, Z, etc) defined by social scientists, not the media. If you’re born in the relevant time period, you’re a Millennial (aka Generation Y) regardless of how you act or how you think. Don’t blame the term itself for people using it incorrectly.
I was born in 87 and I sincerely dislike the title “Millennial”. The term was based on the way many people born after 1995 act, yet was shoe-horned upon my age group as if we and they were indistinguishable.
Further, it was also based on middle class urban kids and wealthier. The sort who had a cell phone in their hand on their fifth birthday. I grew up in grinding rural Appalachian poverty with the occasional luxury by lucky circumstance thrown at my childhood.
Millenial seems to me to describe a certain type of person. Often very far left, incredibly sensitive, middle class (in childhood) or more, believes in more than two genders, could never survive without a phone.
More power to them, the world takes all kinds, but I am not wholly part of that culture or experience. I very much dislike being thrown into it as if I were a long time member. I have similarities, but most of the time I rub them all the wrong way since I have a more “fuck it” kind of personality and a freely rancid vocabulary. Ergo, I tend to unapologetically offend the typical Millennial often, albeit unintentionally most of the time.
Short version is, I get where you’re at with it completely.
It’s also worth mentioning that Generational labels were invented by the WWII age group to be used in condescending, dismissive, and accusatory ways against the gosh-darn-diddily youth, including the Boomers.
@Skoon
I was born in 82 so I will cling on to Gen-X title thank you very much~
Also I will dearly avoid any association with any title related to “millennial” only because I’ve seen so many kids in their early 20’s exhibit some Very strange attributes that I think are symptoms of helicopter parenting and the strange stuff they teach kids in school these days.
By Celestia as I get closer to 40 I feel like I end up doing more of these old fart rants…
When do I get to retire?
@Skoon
Funny you bring that up because I’ve also seen people call people from the 80s “boomers” even though that’s not usually the era the term is usually used for.
These terms are mostly just dumb terms used to divide people and spread around ageism anyways. I really hate them.
@Brony kaiju soldier
I vividly remember back in the early nineties that Gen-X included folks born in the first portion of the eighties. My brother, born in ‘81, was then called a Gen-Xr, he is now defined as a Millenial. The media moves the goal post to suit narratives. It’s all bullshit.
It’s why “Millenial” defines my age group now but it’s “culture” is based on people ten years my junior. It’s all made up by rich old farts who think 8-track tapes are witchcraft.
Crap, I just realized that the red streak in Twilight’s mane looked like a tongue coming out of her mouth, heading straight to wrap up Luster Dawn in a warm and wiggly embrace…
I almost thought I was in a Badumsquish picture. :x
