Millennials

[conuly]

xkcd would like to remind us, once again, of the inexorable march of time.

A few weeks ago one of the kids said something about the generation gap, something about how us olds wouldn't appreciate something those millennials did. I took a certain pleasure in pointing out that everybody in the room was technically a millenial except Jennifer. (And then I followed up by admitting that the only generational cohort that's demographically significant is the Boomers. All other attempts to mark out specific generations and ascribe general traits to them is overexaggerated.)

Comments

[moon_custafer]

From what I can recall of the articles written about Gen X in the ‘nineties, everyone they were describing at the time seemed to be three or four years older than I was, and yet sometimes IIRC they were defined as “the offspring of Boomers.” My mother is a really early Boomer and my dad is a wartime baby (I think my grandfather tried to enlist but was told as a church minister he was an essential home-front worker, or something). They were in their early thirties when they had me. So I’ve never been entirely sure where I’m supposed to fit in, demographically.

[conuly]

Every time I see your icon I think of a knitted tentacle monster, fyi.

[moon_custafer]

I have knitted tentacle monsters: https://knitting.livejournal.com/3760537.html

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Gen X was so small compared to the Boomers and yet it did have these oddities of who are their parents? Both of mine were War babies, with Old Fathers and sliding scale older mothers.

It's possible there was a goodly number of such Gen X. Before, when most children weren't only or spare children, we'd be a rounding error.

[archersangel]

From what I can recall of the articles written about Gen X in the ‘nineties, everyone they were describing at the time seemed to be three or four years older than I was, ....

i had the same perception. except i thought that "gen x" people were at least 5 years or more older.