To ask when/if you realised you were the out of touch older generation

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This year more than any I've realised just how out of touch I am with changes to society, before I was part of it but now the younger generations are changing and I'm the out of touch older generation, it's a weird feeling.

MaudebeGonne how amazing is Adreinne

When I ask my daughter who the guests are on graham Norton are and after she has told me I’m none the wiser.

So women can only be feminist if they look how you think they should look?

No, there are many women I take seriously who look nothing like I choose to look, but if you choose to look like a blow up doll it's really hard to get others to take your message of 'I believe in equality of the sexes' seriously. Why? Because you're choosing to make yourself look like a teenage boy's fucked up fantasy. How is that advancing equality? If we want women to be seen as more than sex dolls then it really fucking helps if they don't deliberately, surgically change themselves to look like that!

2015, at work, I had just seen that Jagged Little Pill was 20 years old, that was pretty shocking and then I had this conversation with someone in their 20s:

Me: Wow! Jagged Little Pill is 20 years old this year!
Her: Jagged Little Pill? is that a band or something?
Me: No it is an album by Alanis Morissette
Her: ...Alanis Morissette... hmmm... I think my dad used to like her

When doctors suddenly became 12.

The bus driver i had yesterday was clearly 15 i really did feel ancient

Because you're choosing to make yourself look like a teenage boy's fucked up fantasy. How is that advancing equality? If we want women to be seen as more than sex dolls then it really fucking helps if they don't deliberately, surgically change themselves to look like that!

You are making a judgement on these women based on what they look like. You are making the assumption that they are dressing for men and not themselves. What women wear or put on their faces should have no bearing on how seriously you take them.

By saying this you are reinforcing the idea that a woman who looks (in your opinion) sexual cannot be taken seriously or believe in equality. Focusing on how sexual women appear to men as a way of changing male attitudes to women is ridiculous.

I felt more out of step in my late 20s and early 30s tbh

I think it is wrone (and limiting) to ascribe it to age. Or to assume that a whole generation is 'out of touch'

I do however sometimes think I'm the only person on MN who regularly challenges ageist stereotypes

• When I realised that many of the pop stars I fancied when I was a teen are now dead.
• I cant think of anything worse than watching Love Island

missing jeremy vine on the weekend when i cant tune into his weekday discussion show on radio 2!
watchign the girls on the way to school an thingnking what the actual f* are you wearing or being disgusted a tthe length of their skirts.and thinking we would have been sent home if we went in wearing what they do.

Objectively I'm not old (I'm 29) but on Saturday I felt about 100. There was a music festival in Glasgow over the weekend and some of the clothes I saw! One group couldn't have been older than 15 and they were all wearing thong bodysuits with fishnet cycling shorts over them so you could see their full arse cheeks. I was genuinely that they left the house like that, and then I felt ancient and uncool.

@amusedbushed My 30 something year old sister was at transmt and she said she felt like a nana

Ach typo i meant @amusedbush obviously

When buying large packs of big knickers became more appealing than buying matching bra and pantie sets. And current fashions are swept aside in favour of comfort and practicability.
When the only reason you still have a tv is so you can watch gardeners world.

I feel in limbo atm, Radio 1 days long gone, have tried listening to Radio 2, I like the DJs but the music is diabolical . What are we supposed to do in between these 2 stations, especially when they ripped apart Heart radio and introduced Amanda Holden 😭😭

When there is an ever-widening gap between the shoes that you think are gorgeous and the shoes that you actually end up buying for yourself because of comfort.

When I realised sick is a word used to mean something is good.

In my day it was wicked!

Reading this I think that I've always been "old" I've always preferred comfort over fashion.

That said there's plenty of older people who are lively and love having fun. I recently met a club of 70 and 80 somethings and they were wild. They put me to shame.

Me and DP have fun going around shops or listening to the radio and going, ‘haha, that’s so early 90s,’ and we love telling the kids we remember wearing culottes 30 years ago. Actually I’ve never worn culottes but who cares.

We also love laughing at the young hipster types buying their cassette tapes. A young beardy guy tried to flog me one at a gig not so long ago, I just chuckled at him and said, ‘no ta, I had enough of them the first time around.’ I all too vividly recall the devastation of my favourite tapes getting mangled in the tape heads, and spending ages winding the tape back in with a pencil. I do still buy CDs though, lots and lots of them. That makes me feel a bit old, but I like to own my music as an artifact, and you can’t display all your MP3s in your living room.

I am costantly told so by one of my suns who cannot believe I have not heard of XYZ pop stars. I said had he heard of Couperin and that people would know who Couperin was in 100 years but not [the pop star he mentioned]. I don't tihnk I convinced him.

How can he not have heard of Couperin?

I'm 35 and my Mother(late 50s) while not old is considerably more outgoing and lively than me. I'm fine with being "boring" though.

That hipsters are now in their thirties, and not young people.

Don’t tweet, Instagram or snapchat
My grandson likes hip hop..no idea what it is.

It’s quite encouraging to go to music gigs like the levellers at Halifax recently and see people in their late 60 s like us and older still rocking it.

@Mrsjayy

I may have complained to DH that the train was packed full of "wee fannies" they were all so loud, so drunk, and so annoying!

Honestly though, some of the girls (and they were little girls!) were done up like drag queens in next to no clothes at 9am on a Friday. It was quite disconcerting

Late 50s with health issues which makes me feel old at times. Daily i wear make up and have as much as boots.
Try to look good daily ( the breed of my grandmother in me )
Not clued up about pop and have no time for so called influencers.
My turning point, when i had no awe or time for celebs or such .
I accept me for who I am and realise social media is mostly fake .