A Gen X thinking she has something valuable to teach the world

A raging misogynist listens to people their utopian visions for a perfect society but has the impression to belong to the completely invisible generation, we also sometimes call the baby bust generation, or MTV Generation. Being part of the generation born between 1965 and 1980, after the baby boomer generation, she might feel somewhat ignored as a “middle child” generation or Gen X.

Her impression is:

Our parents were the boomers, our children are the millennials, and we ourselves have been written right out of the story. We don’t exist at all.

Crying In My Avocado Toast

It is true the baby boomers may look at the MTV generation (a reference to the music video channel) as the “latchkey generation,” which stems from those kids who returned from school to an empty home and needed to use the door key, or sometimes even not having a key to the frontdoor, having to wait outside until the parents came home, or climbing up to the first floor to enter the house.

Sometimes those kids were characterized as slackers, cynical, disaffected and listening to degenerative music such as punk, post-punk, heavy metal, grunge, grindcore and glued to cable television.

She probably lives in a country where the elder people having to take care of the kids had very strange ways to do that. Though we think it was probably by Gen X parents themselves that the younger Gen X-ers found concrete put under the play toys. Those young parents, having poured concrete under the swings, so their kids wouldn’t track mud into the buildings. Because the baby boomers would prefer their kids to play in the parks and sandbox, climbing trees, etc.. I can not see our generation to put sharpened bird spikes on teeter totters, so kids would not walk across the middle of them, or perhaps this might have been an American problem. Tthe article writer telling us:

Lawn darts were actually a thing, as in let’s give kids these heavy weighted darts to throw at one another in the backyard. {Crying In My Avocado Toast}

The writer of the article was actually nearly 50 yrs old before she learned adulting was actually something you do and not just a state of being. We have no idea why she seems to have spent years yelling at God for having abandoned her on a penal colony planet full of psychotic people. Perhaps she called for the wrong god.

Also that the person has the idea that she has been pushed out of the conversation, may be from a generation conflict, baby boomers thinking they as hippies got misunderstood by the next generation, which the baby boomers considered oh so conservative and swallowing everything the government chewed them up.

The “X” refers to an unknown variable or to a desire not to be defined, and that, not wanting to show a clear face, was something which annoyed the baby boomers who wanted to see people with a clear impression and strong voice. Perhaps the free choice of baby boomers having them divorced leaving Gen X as a weapon or as somebody to fight for, made them so silent.

An other problem of the women, still connected with a partner or coming to live on their own, or having changed partner, was those boomer women wanting to be more independent and going into the labour force, that began in the 1970s, and got marked by the confidence of many in their ability to successfully pursue a career while meeting the needs of their children, but putting their children next to their career. This perhaps made some Gen X children feel like they were not really wanted or neglected by their parents. Others, in turn, took advantage of this to make their divorced parents pay handsomely for them by pitting them against each other or outdoing them.

Gen X forms the demographic bridge between the predominantly white baby boomers and the more diverse millennials. They also fall in the middle of other demographic measures. For instance, their political attitudes also fit between those for what many consider the more conservative Baby Boomers and the more liberal Millennials.

Growing up in a time of two-income families and rising divorce rates we can see that several of the Gen X made a totally different world for them than their parents and grandparents.

There was no mother to provide lunch or tea and help them with their projects. They had to get on with things as best they could. These characteristics have translated into an appreciation for independence in the workplace preferring to do their work as they see fit and detesting micro-management.

Generation X questions authority. They prefer an informal work environment Gen X managers often create innovative workspaces like coffee lounges and coworking spaces for their workers. The work-hard-and-play-hard mentality is attributed to them.

They now shall have to struggle with the millennial generation or Generation Y, (meaning those born between 1981–96) and Generation Z, also called Gen Z, zoomers, iGeneration, centennials, post-millennials, or Homelanders.