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GeePawHill

I really dislike "gen" talk. The world is full of assholes and full of lovely people and full of the ignorant, and it always has been, with the categories only correlating to birth year in the minds of folks who are too bubbled-up to get out and discover strangers.

I class the vast majority of statements about gen-this and gen-that and gen-the-other down there with astrology and Kiersey-Bates.

Apr 28, 2025 at 10:56pmWeb
Show threadbupigApr 28, 2025
@GeePawHill The "gen" talk is rubbish, I agree, but undoubtedly the zeitgeist in which we grew up has an impact on our worldview, hasn't it?
Show threadGeePawHillApr 28, 2025
@booboo "We" is doing all the sleight-of-hand heavy lifting there. Do you think every person who is 65 had the same experience, even limiting it to America? Not remotely so. But gen talk suggests that it is. Trivially, race, class, gender, gender-preference, and wealth are all far more predictive factors, and even within each portion of that five-dimensional space, there are huge differences.
Show threadLydia SchochApr 29, 2025
@GeePawHill @booboo My thoughts exactly. Not to mention how disability and health in general affects people’s life experiences as well.
Show threadDavid SaffApr 28, 2025
@GeePawHill While I agree in principle, I do think that a certain amount of good-faith gen talk can be expected in a country where having been born in one particular half decade has been heavily correlated with access to the nuclear codes for as long as the median resident can remember...
Show threadschratzeApr 29, 2025
@GeePawHill most conflicts between boomers and millenials/gen Z turn out to be conflicts between the ruling and the working class upon closer examination anyway.
Show threadthe roamerApr 29, 2025

@GeePawHill

100%.

Show threadTony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀Apr 29, 2025
@GeePawHill so much of “generational warfare” is content farming clickbait no more accurate than horoscopes