Ok Boomer
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Bones McHorror
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Andrew Sak
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Danhedonia
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I'm sure it's funny for most, but here in ABQ we have an alternative weekly where the local restaurant critic (!) went on an ageist rant a couple of months ago.
It's not the n word, and could never be, but words meant to disparage people because of 'what' they are, are slurs.
It's not the n word, and could never be, but words meant to disparage people because of 'what' they are, are slurs.
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Bones McHorror
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Well, boomer is the official term for that generation.
I think a lot of it is blowback from (some) baby boomers shitposting bad advice, racism, misogyny, gate-keeping, strawmen, etc. on social media. It's basically a way of saying I'm not going to dignify this shit with a serious response. People have spent the last 5-6 years calling millenials and gen z snowflakes who overreact to everything with FEELINGS over FACTS. So this type stoic response is tailored to frustrate that type of expectation.
Thing is Gen Z seem unaware who is actually a baby boomer only that they tend to be in charge of our institutions right now. Which might explain why this phenomenon quickly just became an in-joke that is sometimes not even directed at actual boomers. From what I've seen on twitter, it gets lobbed at millenials and gen xers almost as much as boomers. Whether at pre-maturely old Alex P. Keaton types or people who "need to get canceled."
Ageism is about essential characteristics, not changeable things like your political or social views. And probably requires people making these jokes to be in positions of power to discriminate against them. Neither of which seems to be the case here or the particular point of the matter.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
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Bones McHorror
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Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
They use it indiscriminately against anyone for any reason now just to tell any older person including gen xers to shut it. What may have had a funny meaning is now just a "shut up old man" to seemingly 2/3rds of those using it.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
At the risk of rickenvoxing up this thread, I have to say I find this whole intergenerational moment fascinating.
Xers have been hating on Boomers before it was cool. But a lot of the imagined bootstrapping/conservative/crypto-nazi/“I wanna speak to a manager” nonsense from the Boomer/Karen/Debora/Old Economy Steve types in the meme is actually Xer business. Xers are tediously having an “In my day” field day. And they’re the group most reflexively “anti-PC” and “telling it like it is” oriented. And the “facts don’t care about your feelings” and “cruelty is smart” douchebaggery is at the core of Xer individualist nihilism. I’m glad someone is putting us in our place, but it’s typical that the Boomers are still getting all the credit.
Millennials are just boomers with better social media skills. A bunch of self-involved, affluence-minded dweebs who see their consumer habits as revolution and want IRL points for slight shifts in style. The only reason they haven’t all become 1980s yuppie cliches already is because the economy and student loan debt has fucked them.
And Gen Z seems to be taking up the edgy cute righteous indignation Year Zero burn it all down and cancel what’s left vibes of early Xerhood before libertarian brain rot and disruptive internet cash made Xers into deathless dad joke horrorshows complete with cargo shorts and recycled South Park jokes. Get out while you can, kids. Sure you might wind up as Kathleen Hanna, but more likely you’ll Ben Shapiro yourselfs.
Xers have been hating on Boomers before it was cool. But a lot of the imagined bootstrapping/conservative/crypto-nazi/“I wanna speak to a manager” nonsense from the Boomer/Karen/Debora/Old Economy Steve types in the meme is actually Xer business. Xers are tediously having an “In my day” field day. And they’re the group most reflexively “anti-PC” and “telling it like it is” oriented. And the “facts don’t care about your feelings” and “cruelty is smart” douchebaggery is at the core of Xer individualist nihilism. I’m glad someone is putting us in our place, but it’s typical that the Boomers are still getting all the credit.
Millennials are just boomers with better social media skills. A bunch of self-involved, affluence-minded dweebs who see their consumer habits as revolution and want IRL points for slight shifts in style. The only reason they haven’t all become 1980s yuppie cliches already is because the economy and student loan debt has fucked them.
And Gen Z seems to be taking up the edgy cute righteous indignation Year Zero burn it all down and cancel what’s left vibes of early Xerhood before libertarian brain rot and disruptive internet cash made Xers into deathless dad joke horrorshows complete with cargo shorts and recycled South Park jokes. Get out while you can, kids. Sure you might wind up as Kathleen Hanna, but more likely you’ll Ben Shapiro yourselfs.
Pine Apple Slim
Armchair Expert
1957'er late boomer here.
So far nobody has OK Boomered me because of my opinion about anything.
I seem to have more in common with Millennials than with most of my own generation, and even less in common with Gen Xers.
Those 80s kids were/still are aholes for the most part, with their Big Hair Rock and polo shirts.
So far nobody has OK Boomered me because of my opinion about anything.
I seem to have more in common with Millennials than with most of my own generation, and even less in common with Gen Xers.
Those 80s kids were/still are aholes for the most part, with their Big Hair Rock and polo shirts.
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