Please don't offend snowflake boomers

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Interesting that he mentioned participation ribbons. I've heard a lot of talk about participation ribbons and participation trophies and variants thereof from boomers. I've heard a lot of people talking about participation trophies but I've never actually seen one. The only people I've ever heard mention them were people who were complaining about them.

I've been accused of going to a school that handed out participation trophies willy-nilly but when I was in school, I'd never heard of them (and even if I did get one, it would have been a boomer teacher handing them out). I'm not sure if they actually exist. If they do exist, their prevalence must have been exaggerated.

Millennials simply do not care what Boomers have to say.
Millennials will continue to blame Boomers for making life harder for us younger generations.
Millennials will continue to blame Boomers for destroying the environment.
Millennials will continue to blame Boomers for ruining our future: increasing house prices, education and health to unaffordable levels.
Millennials will continue to blame the Boomer generation.

So let's all of us just move on with our lives.

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The sort of person who would take offense at this probably wouldn't spend £85,000 on that vehicle.

I'm an Xer.

I don't see this as any different than not being able to tell people they are stupid and not do verbal abuse.

Boomers are actually the ones who changed how kids were raised today. Talking to them instead and let them be their own person and have their own personality and interests and their own opinions and make their own decisions. Boomers were also the ones that decided instead of hitting your kids, there are other ways of raising them than using the belt or your hand. It all changed in the 1970's when they started having kids and decided to raise their own differently and this is where we are today. Of course the older generation think kids and Millennials today are spoiled and lazy. But you gotta thank the boomers for that.

Hey I know what all those are and I was born in the 1980's.

You are correct that even the other side wants a safe space. They do not want to be called on on their racism or bigotry and other things they were taught that were now wrong. But then they try to say we want a safe space and we are snowflakes and that we are intolerant. They also want their own safe space as well and to be free from any consequences and from being called out.

Spot on.
Americans have a bad habit of overcorrecting for problems. How Boomers raised their kids is a prime example of this problem.

Yeah, okay Boomer...

Seriously, how old are Millennials? The term seems to be liberally applied to teenagers as well as to people in their 40s. Pretty broad brush. How do you define Millennials?

I've noticed youngsters use it to anyone who's older than them...

I'm a millennial and they direct it at me...

I'd prefer to get rid of 'Karen'. Don't see why an older woman complaining is worse than anyone else complaining*. Apart from the age old double prejudice against older, and thus less conventionally attractive, women.

And if she's a 'Karen' cos she's acting a bigot, just call her a bigot.

*They say unnecessarily but surely that's subjective?

Anyone who's old enough to have seen the start of the millennium, but only if they're young enough to have been a child at the time.

Boomers are anyone who was born in the post-war baby boom of the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s.

I have issues with how most people define generational cohorts and I believe it leads to miscommunication. I prefer to categorize based on what people can remember.

The Vietnam War was the single most overpowering public event in the formative years of the Early Boomers whereas Late Boomers don't remember it and tend to be considerably more conservative as a result. Early Gen-X experienced the malaise of the late 70s followed by Reagan-era recovery and the putative victory of the US over the USSR ending the Cold War, and are similarly conservative. Late Gen-X came of age during the post-Cold War Grunge era and were influenced by its cynicism. They may be more akin to Millennials than Early Gen-X.

I believe most people identified as Boomers are either Late Boomer or Early Gen-X (many of the latter have become significantly grizzled by now). Early Boomers (on average) skew more to the left, in particular they share Millennials' lack of admiration for vested authority, and some feel considerable sympathy for the Millennial point of view. However as they are getting old and more and more are retired, they have also become less visible.

US direct participation in Vietnam ended in ‘73, the communists won the war in ‘75 so even the youngest boomer remembers something of it. I was born in ‘57 and I do remember the riots, the protests, assassinations etc. but I was too young to participate in any meaningful way and too young to be drafted. The big political event in my High School years was Watergate so we were “grizzled” early on.

My wife was also born in 1957 and she and I have a similar world view, however before meeting her I dated a young woman born in 1959 who, on one occasion when she was questioning the future of our relationship (she later admitted that her interest in me had always been primarily physical) she bluntly stated she had no personal recall of the Vietnam War after I mentioned it during a conversation. According to her, that meant I was too old for her. When I met my wife, I underestimated her age (guessing her to be about 24 when she was actually 27 at the time) and feared we would have the same "problem". For that reason I was actually relieved to learn she was older.

EDIT: Bear in mind that, according to most folks' reckoning, I (born 1952) and the young woman born in 1959 would both be thought of as "boomers".