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[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago

Lol, not entirely inaccurate. From the Wikipedia for Latchley kid

The term latchkey kid became commonplace in the 1970s and 1980s to describe members of Generation X who, according to a 2004 marketing study, "went through its all-important, formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history." Latchkey kids were prevalent during this time, a result of increased divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.[6][7][8][9] These latchkey children, referred to as "day orphans" in the 1984 documentary, To Save Our Children to Save Our Schools, mainly came from middle or upper-class homes. The higher the educational attainment of the parents, the higher the odds the children of this time would be latchkey kids.[10][11]

Nowadays, if my mother was a black woman giving me the responsibilities she did, they would've arrested her ass.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

Boomer is a state of mine.

You kids will one day be like this. You'll slowly find it creeping up on you in your older age, and eventually you wake up one day not understanding the young generation and you'll be thinking to yourself "Gosh, those darn kids and their perfidious pranks they play on us. But at least its a nice day to go outside and grill grillman "

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I've been like that since I was ten years old squidward-nochill

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

At least you grill grillman grill

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

No way, I'm gonna keep on rockin' forever

Forever

Forever

Forever...

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Sweet Child O' Mine slowly plays in the distance, fading away until nothing but the soft wind rustling the golden waves of seed-bearing grass stalks across the desolate fields

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

sweet child o' mine (slowed + reverb)

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WAS NEGLECTED BY MY PARENTS I WAS BEATEN AS A CHILD AND I TURNED OUT FINE

is everyone in the west raised in an abusive home or what? at least millenials got participation trophies. that's probably the thing that saved them. until they discovered toast..

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

is everyone in the west raised in an abusive home or what?

I don't know how universal it is, but where I'm from people brag about having a rough upbringing like it's a badge of honor. It leads to a really silly culture where people feel a social pressure to exaggerate and mythologize their childhoods as a series of legendary conquests. You'll notice in OPs image that the event that they endured was spending a day playing with a sprinkler and then eating a sandwich at the neighbor's house.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

a day playing with a sprinkler and then eating a sandwich at the neighbor's house.

This was the Gen X equivalent of Normandy Beach

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WAS NEGLECTED BY MY PARENTS I WAS BEATEN AS A CHILD AND I TURNED OUT FINE

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

From personal experience yes

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The amount of times as a child that a kids dad coming home was a reason to leave was too damn high.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Yo what kind of fucking childhood did this freak have?

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

I'm like dead-center millennial and this is an extremely exaggerated and stupid-to-brag-about, but not completely wrong, version of my childhood.

This person's just doing the "father I cannot click the book" joke because gen xrs are boomers.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

The childhood where there was still lead in the gas I guess

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

This sounds like a totally normal childhood and like the lamest possible thing you could brag about.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

the kind their failing mind remembers poorly and their vanity fills in the blanks

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

kind of jealous tbh, I had the exact opposite upbringing and I feel like it's part of why I'm fucked up and terminally online

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Perfect example of this mentality: the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, it's a fucking Gen X pride film about how boomers suck because they grew up before video game and we millenials suck too because our video games are bullshit but Gen X are the baddest dudes who ever lived because they played Pac-Man and Donkey Kong

I'm not even exaggerating, that's the whole movie

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

The garbage fire known as "Ready Player One" is a hand-crafted power fantasy to make cishet white freeze-gamer of a very exact Gen-X age feel superior because they are perfectly aligned to win the billionaire's fortune and rule the dystopian world with their 80s trivia and Bideo Bame skills.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

The vast majority of Gen X men I've met have been borderline dysfunctional. I've never seen a gen X dude make a decent meal from scratch without fucking up.

Gen Xers have had the absolute strangest brainworms about gender, prescribing strict gender codes for other men, while being completely unable to live up to their own standards.

Most Gen X men are useless in the kitchen, helpless in raising their own children and too self absorbed to notice the absolute state of themselves.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hope they know everyone under 35 lumps gen x and boomers as almost the same people

They’re genuinely the most forgettable gen (after silents). No one but gen xers think of gen xers as tough. Emotionally unavailable people that need therapy, maybe, but that doesn’t make you tough

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Does Gen X realize that Millenials were brought up the same way?

Like holy shit dawg we had the same neglectful parents. No need to brag.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

There were still some ladders that weren't yet kicked down after they graduated.

That leaves them enough material conditional room (and lead in their brains from when they were born) to be junior Boomers. grillman

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Millennials are truly the chosen generation

Born late enough to avoid a brain full of lead and know how to use a computer
Born early enough to avoid a brain full of plastic and know how to use a computer

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Born early enough to avoid a brain full of plastic

If only that plastic didn't apply to us in cumulative way like a sort of lead that was never phased out. homer-bye

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Your brain really does turn to mush over a certain age, huh?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Is Gen X the one that lives with the bald wheelchair guy in the mansion and they fight magnet man

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Personally, I find the whole being a flag bearer for an age cohort thing to be very hokey and needlessly distracting from the actual class warfare that we are constantly losing to the capitalist class.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

For a bunch of people that commend the rough 'n tough lifestyle, why prevent walkable cities that teach independence at such an early age AND reduce reliance on technology?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Because walking is communism. The actual solution is to give driver's licenses to children as young as 6 years old so they can experience true freedom.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Because car go vroom vroom and cities are full of them. us-foreign-policy

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only thing that I'm impressed with myself over the youth is that for a brief time we somehow found the people we were going to meet at an event without sending signals into space to send messages to transponders to find each other, everything else about being gen x sucks and we lost that ability.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Drinking leaded water out of the garden hose. Can’t imagine what happened to their brains

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

This sounds like parody. Formally trained in something by the time they were 2???

Anyway all Gen X'ers are gonna do is sing Smells Like Teen Spirit and be sad in the corner

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Gen X was the original heated-gamer-moment

This might as well be their signature copypasta.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

They also fought an evil telekinetic test tube baby trapped in an alternate dimension with their group of friends in a small town in Iowa.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Where did the whole "we drank water from a garden hose and lived" thing start? Almost every boomer meme mentions it.

I see people (younguns and myself included) drinking from garden hoses all the time. How did it become a badge of virtue for boomers/genX?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Why would that be on a millenial's post? Why not a gen x post?

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