OK, Boomer

[ErrolTheDragon]

Explained for us in The Times today.
I'll put the link in second post for clickiness.

Enjoy.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/titania-mcgrath-woke-warriors-need-just-two-words-to-put-you-oldies-in-your-place-ok-boomer-9f8rwfwvf?shareToken=75c0ec7f296cf0574fc9a2dfd19ac437

Thank you

It's kind of cute, that they think we would be so very outraged!

Ha ha. I am feeling left out and utterly overlooked. Every generation from 1946 on has a special description. I was born in 1943 and am so invisible I had to consult Professor Google to see what my moniker was. Apparently it's the Silent Generation. So silent, who knew?

It's a good description actually as we just get on with life and stuff. Whatever.

And OK Silent Generation person doesn't have the same nifty ring to it really does it? Maybe Sod off Silent would do the trick.

I got my first 'OK Boomer' on Twitter the other day. They also mocked the way I'd posted, because they thought it showed that I was old and therefore couldn't use technology properly. When I pointed out I'm not a Boomer (neither am I technologically inept, as it happens), I was met with a meme which said something along the lines of 'If you show attitudes of a Boomer and you're not a Boomer then you should be f*ing ashamed and you need to be reeducated in a Gulag '. I mean, there's just nowhere to go with that, is there? So now, not only everyone who was born between 1946-64 is scum, but also anyone who shares an opinion on any issue with these millions of people. It's actually getting scary now, the lack of logic Gen Z are showing. It's the first time in my life I'm feeling old, I just can't relate.

Ultimate put down? It's not even clever.

'Fuck off, you self-absorbed, inexperienced snowflake'. Now that's a put down

ToWanda. From Fried Green Tomatoes - great film

Brilliant clitherow.

Great clip, great film (although I thought the book was better). Also made in 1991! I don't think this generation is fundamentally different from any that have gone before. What I think might be new is the number of grown ups - some of them middle aged themselves - queuing up to pat them on the back.

Fuck off, you self-absorbed, inexperienced snowflake

Perhaps if older people hadn’t been taking the piss out of millennials for years and calling them snowflakes, there wouldn’t be such animosity?

Personally I immediately ignore anyone who thinks either term is worth using.

I don't think it's millennials. I'm a millennial and I'm cracking on for 40... (37...and a half).

It's the 'Zoomers' I believe.

So surely just 'OK Zoomer' and a roll of the eyes would do it.

That’s brilliant Andrew number of posters who haven’t recognised it as a piss take, makes it even funnier.

*and the number....

Saw an article in the Spectator that said if their ultimate put down is 'ok boomer' then they're pretty culturally empty.

Well apparently, Gen X is now called the 'Karen' generation, so not only ageist but also sexist. Apparently "They’re usually racist, homophobic, and transphobic, don’t believe in vaccines or climate change." Doesn't sound much like the Gen X I know, it was more about alternately getting wasted and partying in warehouses and feeling depressed. These terms are all coming in from America, another thing I hate about them, they simply don't apply in the same way around the world. There's a colonialist type conquest of concepts and identities at the moment via social media with the spread of this shit. I got called a 'Republican Pharisee' the other day too - I mean, WTF does that even mean? Why does someone through a computer screen think they can categorise me according to sex, age, class, race and politics through one opinion on expressed on Twitter, and why should any of those characteristics be looked for as a reason to shut me down anyway? Can't they see the hypocrisy of that when claiming to be politically pure and intersectional etc?

I just found that spectator piece too, while looking up 'zoomer '.

And of course, as those of us with kids of that age know, a lot of that's just lazy stereotypes too. This section in particular bears no relation whatsoever to my DD and her student friends (apart from that she's not into 'spirituality'):

Youth is wasted on today’s young because they are self-righteous mini-adults who have no time for the stuff of teenage life. They have no joy, silliness, seriousness, spirituality; no soul, no style and no sense of fun.

Perhaps if older people hadn’t been taking the piss out of millennials for years and calling them snowflakes, there wouldn’t be such animosity?

Personally I immediately ignore anyone who thinks either term is worth using.

I agree. I've seen the idiotic 'snowflake' thrown around an awful lot (and that Spectator article is another sneering mess).

Not a milennial, either, early X-er).

I agree. (Not a millenial). I've seen the idiotic 'snowflake' thrown around an awful lot

Oh blast, how garbled it that?

(To clarify, spectator piece was entertaining - but it probably shouldn't be taken much more seriously than T. McGrath's work)

OP, I love the fact that you have correctly put a comma in the phrase rather than commit the horror of bad punctuation (even though it is almost universally written as "OK boomer". Shudder).

Titania on form.

I don’t agree with it, but don’t see how people think calling millennials snowflake is okay but ‘okay, boomer’ isn’t. Don’t do either.

"OK groomer" is the best reply to "ok boomer" that I've seen.

And I totally agree about the lazy transposition of US culture onto UK culture that just doesn't always fit. Especially not when talking politics.

I think stereotypes in general are bad. I think it's particularly bad when you're using a glib put down about someone's age or sex as a way to silence them, and it equates to ageism and sexism. I also think it's highly hypocritical when trying to claim the moral ground. FWIW, I think I've only ever used 'snowflake' to refer to myself in a self-depreciating manner.

It seems to me that the real resentment isn't coming from young people as much as from the generation above them (millenials?). As many of them were probably just finding their feet when the financial crash hit, then they may have a point, although I think they're misguided in targeting their anger at boomers. It might help too if some of them didn't talk about boomers as if they all went to university on full grants and then bought a house for half a crown.