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If you are referring to the term “boomer,” it is a shortened form of “baby boomer.” This term has been in use for decades, and is accepted by us boomers, by and large. Some younger folks do use the term to express disdain or hostility, but most of us old folks accept that we are called “boomers.”
We've been boomers in my personal recollection since the early 60s. I know we had been identified as the "baby boom" generation even before then, but I didn't personally know it as our cohort designation until the 60s. Actually, I was one of the early "Korean War 'boomlet'" kids, but at some point the Korean War "boomlet" got merged into the overall baby boom.
I’m not a boomer, but I find the whole generation stereotyping itself to be insulting as a whole. I don’t match the stereotypes of my generation, and I know that a lot of folks don’t match the stereotypes of theirs either. It’s annoying that so many people still use it as shorthand to say something about anybody of a certain age, when in reality these arbitrary age cutoffs are really kinda useless.
Yes they are because even though I’m a boomer my life experiences growing up in another country make it difficult to relate to many of the boomer experiences here in the USA.
Yes they are because even though I’m a boomer my life experiences growing up in another country make it difficult to relate to many of the boomer experiences here in the USA.
Heck, I am also a Boomer technically but it's difficult to relate to many of the Boomer experiences here in the USA.
However, what's not difficult to relate to is playing outside till the streetlights came on. I mean, I played, rode my bike God only knows where, all over town, kicked a ball around, threw myself under bushes, the whole nine yards. I even threw my bike down once and tackled some boy who was driving me crazy (he probably liked me, who knows) and I straddled him and filled his mouth with dirt clods!
How's Biden working out for you?.......45 years of qualified.
I don't think the 2020 election was stolen, but the Iowa Caucus sure was. Bernie won hands down but the party brahmins couldn't abide his populism, so they claimed "technical difficulties" and strung the field along until Biden, who finished 5th in New Hampshire, could win in party-controlled South Carolina. (SC similarly served as a bulwark for the Republicans in 2000 after McCain's insurgent win in NH).
What I mean is, nobody got what they wanted in 2020 except the Permanent Uniparty. How's that working out for us?
I don't think the 2020 election was stolen, but the Iowa Caucus sure was. Bernie won hands down but the party brahmins couldn't abide his populism, so they claimed "technical difficulties" and strung the field along until Biden, who finished 5th in New Hampshire, could win in party-controlled South Carolina. (SC similarly served as a bulwark for the Republicans in 2000 after McCain's insurgent win in NH).
What I mean is, nobody got what they wanted in 2020 except the Permanent Uniparty. How's that working out for us?
For sure, Biden was at the bottom of my list of preferred Democratic candidates, and Harris was second from the bottom.
I don't consider it to be insulting to be considered a Boomer. However, I do find that it CAN be an insulting phrase, along with "Karen," and some other disparaging terms used toward my generation sometimes.
I agree. I'm a Boomer and a Karen. But a nice Karen, not one of THOSE Karens, lol.
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