Agreed. The generation you were born into does not have to determine the person you become. We all can choose who we will become! And quite frankly I have met some awful individuals from practically every generation.

I (80 M) don't know anyone like these "Boomers".

In boomers case it does

No chips, right? lol. Like there aren’t d***s in every generation since the beginning of time.

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Well, I can confidently say the majority of boomers I've encountered have been stereotypical boomers. Ofcourse there are exceptions and I've met plenty of great people, but largely, they've just had entitlement and dinosaur mentalities that erode morale faster than a sandblaster...but it's the same for most millennials. As long as I can remember, boomers have lumped us all in together. Now that we return the gesture it's suddenly undesirable? 🤷‍♀️ I guess I'll just go back to killing the bar scene and the diamond industry over my avocado toast.

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No different than the use of Karen. I use boomer for any old white man being an entitled pr**k. I don't care if they're 50 or 80. I'm going to call their behavior out for what it is. No matter their age.

I think you may be right. He kept the other job 38 years and got a great severance package. He also was a government employee so is vested.

I'm a boomer (M 69). Retired five years ago. We always treat people (e.g., servers and fast food workers) and people in retail, etc.) with respect. I can't imagine not doing so. And most of my "boomer" friends are the same. We know our kids had it way harder that we did (education, getting a well paying job, getting a house, starting a family). I'm tired of hearing about stereotype boomers who can't understand how things are these days. The guy in this story was simply not behaving in a civilized manner.

Aggree.

Bingo

English is the first language of younger generations today. They (not all but too many) take a word, change the meaning, and demand everyone else use their meaning. Example: the word for a female dog, was first used as a pejorative for a woman. Not good, but at least the correct gender. Now they use it against males. Nope, just shows your inability to speak standard English. Which should be required in schools and all places of business. Speak how you wish amongst your friends. Or sooner rather than later we will be known as the country that doesn’t speak English but some unknown dialect. We will be ignored internally as most other countries speak English as a second language. As will we. Poorly.

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The term "baby boomer" refers to a certain age bracket. "Boomer" is an earned insult. It's funny to me how many BPers are Boomers, because anytime it pops up in an article you all lose your s**t. But when it's gen Z you all lose your s**t.

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Read my comment above about language. And lack of ability to speak and understand our country’s language.

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I'm sorry that you've been mistreated by people of a certain age group, but that doesn't mean that all, or even most, people of that generation are abusers. Also, abusers do not all belong to any single age group.

Well, luckily your generation (whatever that may be) is perfect, and all future generations will praise how awesome you are. They will thank you for showing them how to be a perfect human being ❤️!

I’m not sure that the best reaction to having met an judgemental αsshole, never mind what age, is to become a judgemental αsshole yourself. And I’m sorry for whatever happened to you, but it doesn’t actually make everybody born between a certain set of years evil. If we want the age bashing to stop and the younger generations to be left alone, we’ll have to leave the older ones alone. I’m not even sure you’re in a position to talk about attitude, man, if you’re going to hate on the entirety of a generation. Makes you kind of shίtty too, strictly speaking. A generation consist of a whole lot of people. The patronizing tone you tried at the end there doesn’t do much to prove you as non-shítty either, to be honest. Maybe we should all just chill for a minute.

And you treating those you don’t know in the same abusive manner that your parents treated you? I hope you are childless and stay that way, you are your parents. Don’t like the personal way I spoke to you? Read YOUR comments and see how you’d like it aimed at you.

Well, if we read the post very carefully, we see it’s a/ from 4 days ago and b/ OP clearly stated her FIL just turned 59. Ergo..not a boomer. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. 🙄

It seem, mostly, that GenX starts in 64, but I've also seen where 64 is claimed as bo9mer. I was born in 66 and am solidly GenX. Hubby was born late 1962. They technically makes him a boomer. But who he is, what he likes, the kind of person he is, hr's all much more GenX than boomer! I

Yes, and that personality trait is shared by all generations. This piece of writing singles out one generation as exemplifying that trait. That's where the prejudice comes in.

Date of birth is a personality trait…?

Is it ok to generalize a group which is in the majority? Why?

I get the feeling that people thing it's ok to malign a whole group of people if that group is a majority. It's still prejudice isn't it? So, is prejudice justified if we're dealing with a majority?