Ok, Boomer

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I have had to repeatedly tell DS that I am not a boomer. His Grandad is though.

I am with him though. He went through a whole litany of the issues facing his generation and what the older generation have benefited from.

He seems to have got some of the memes from 'Insta'.

Anyone else got a child who uses this phrase?

@RolytheRhino exactly!! We tell our teenager that there are six white ones coming to London soon!!!

I agree the woe is me stuff is just as dismissive as snowflake and probably the reason for this phrase taking off as it did.

I’m Gen X which reminds me of is Reality Bites and Winona Ryder

Backlash against the term snowflakes makes much more sense. I just got thrown when the age group got expanded. For the 1975 fans, saying “okay boomer” to the “millennial that baby boomers like” is a WTF, incorrect use of language moment 😂

I think people who don’t know which generation they are don’t care, understandably. It doesn’t seem to come up except when people are arguing. Not heard of the silent generation at all.

Not heard of the silent generation at all

I heard it after I typed it 😂

I think millennials are going to be in for a shock when they reach middle age and they find that the younger generations blame them for everything that's wrong in the world.

"We didn't mess everything up, that was the boomers"
"Ok millenial"

That's the thing though @NotDavidTennant that every gen blames the one before. Circle of life. We just now have hilarious memes to express it lol

It's not just the term snowflake that millennials are sick of its all the rubbish that has been reported for years and yes there is a resentment towards the older generation mainly the politicians & media. We're taught to respect your elders but being old doesn't make people right all the time and doesn't give them a pass to be dismissive or rude about the younger generations. Boomer is a response to this, if it's ok to refer to millennials as snow flakes why is it any different using boomer?

I'm an old millennial and I feel lucky because the generations coming behind me are going to have it harder when it comes to education & housing. It was a huge struggle for me to get on the housing ladder, and I was lucky as I was able to pay off my student loan.

You can see some of the examples of the rubbish written about millennials on reddit

www.reddit.com/r/DeathByMillennial/

I'm Gen X and these are some of the features:

TBH if your mum had a high flying career , in spite of supposed equality , the pill etc, university becoming more of an option from people of all backgrounds , this was still regarded as highly unusual. Getting more common for women to work but still unusual to have a high flying career

Divorce amongst our parents starting to become more common

Getting more common for working class kids to have higher educational /career aspirations
Our parents be they miners or teachers etc etc are likely to have gone on strike

We are 80s kids and grew up with Thatcher , Reagan , Spitting Image, TOTP , Smash Hits, Crackerjack , Playschool, and recording the Top 40 on a cassette tape. We are likely to have been called Joanne Claire Rachel Lisa Simon Jason Mark Paul Lee etc etc.....

On another note Gen X are possibly the best looking boy and ever

Should say boyband**

I’m generation X. I hate the phrase. Typical of millenials and their ‘woe is me’ attitude

Could we please avoid generalisations on all sides please. There are legitimate concerns that shouldn't be dismissed with "Snowflake" or "Woe is Me".

You can see some of the examples of the rubbish written about millennials on reddit

You can look on pretty much any Subreddit and see nonsense about Boomers.

So it’s ok to use “millennials” as an insult but not boomer? I think the younger generation got fed up of constantly being shit on by their elders and are retaliating. It’s also ageist to use millennial as a slur but I don’t see anyone crying over that.

I'm a millennial and I despise 'Ok, Boomer' it's lazy, ageist, ignorant and dismissive. It's overused, unfunny and always said by some obnoxious scrote who thinks they're being oh so clever and original by using it.

I have a friend called Boomer, the availability of ‘merch’ with his name on is great!

Xenial and proud. Analogue childhood, digital adulthood. Boys who love girls who love boys....Suede, Pulp, Tarrinto and trainspotting.

I'm a millennial and I despise 'Ok, Boomer' it's lazy, ageist, ignorant and dismissive. It's overused, unfunny and always said by some obnoxious scrote who thinks they're being oh so clever and original by using it.

Ok Boomer

Xennial sorry- best name too

JustAnotherPoster00 Thanks for illustrating my point so perfectly.

OK, Boomer is an snarky way of shutting up older people on social media.
Especially on issues of identity politics, showing an ignorance of the fights the 2nd wave feminists - many of them baby boomers - went through to get us our rights.

It made me chuckle but you set it up so beautifully I felt I had to, I'm probably older than you so I think its more about an out dated belief system that triggers an 'ok boomer' response not the age of the recipient per se

I’ve found, in my experience that it’s used mostly by men. It’s just another lazy insult used when they are losing the argument because they have nothing conducive to say, that will lose meaning, the same way transphobe is used and has lost its power.

My parents are boomers. But understanding of their priviledge

Isn't it all an excellent distraction devised by politicians to cause infighting amongst ourselves and encourage us to hold others accountable for things that realistically were beyond their control? I'm a millennial apparently (thanks @doublebarrellednurse)- yes, the Boomer generation may have had some things better but I wouldn't swap with them. Just look at the sexism, racism and homophobia they had to encounter on a daily basis. The kids who died from things that are now curable. There are many advantages millennials have that were not available at the time. I do not envy boomers at all. I don't see the point of all the derision and infighting.

'OK Boomer' used in the same way as, 'OK, Grandma' I have no issue with.

What age bracket is generation x and why x? Never heard of generation x before