How does a Generation X-ers group sound to you?

[coloradodem2005]

I figured since there was a baby boomers group, there could be one for us. I was born in 1979 and I believe that makes me a late X-er so there.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. 1976

is technically (technically) the last year of Gen X, but if you were born in the late 60's or anytime in the 70's it is all the same. I was born dec 18th, 1976, so the difference between me being a gen-x and gen-y is 13 days? Dumb.

Anywho, I am up for it, but I have no idea what we would talk about, other than how cool it used to be to sit in a coffee shop with a flannel shirt, baggy jeans, and a backwards baseball hat, and angst.

[coloradodem2005]

3. I keep reading 1961 to 1981 as x-er years.

n/t

[Worst Username Ever]

15. Hey that is possible too.

My brother was born in 1980, one would think we'd be of the same generation. I am just going off of my old sociology texts.

[Frogtutor]

27. I think Babyboomers end in 1962;

It's weird; my husband is only 5 years older than me, but he's considered a babyboomer while I'm a gen-xer. Maybe there's an overlap?

Frogtutor

[Left Is Write]

51. I think there usually is overlap, depending on you self-identify.

Baby Boomers were "officially" a twenty-year generational span, from 1945 to 1964.

I was born in 1966. I am clearly too young to be a Baby Boomer. However, I don't really related to the so-called Generation X either. I have no idea what I am, generationally speaking.

I am married to a definite Gen X-er, though. He was born in 1974.

[obreaslan]

12. Oh yeah, the angst...

I almost forgot. I loved the angst. That was great. :toast:

[cmf]

26. You just described high school for me

Flannel shirts, coffee and angst. I'm another bicentennial baby. Little did we know just how good the 90's would be.

[coloradodem2005]

31. Little did we know how bad the '00's would be.

I just hope the saying "It's always darkest before the Dawn" holds here because things really suck now.

[Biased Liberal Media]

41. Sometimes I miss the 90s. I was born in 1978, class of 1997 (hs) n/t

[Worst Username Ever]

48. Yeah I hated the 90's while we were in them.

College and HS were good, but life just seemed to suck. Now I know that was mostly because I was a teenager for most of them. But now that I look back, the 90's were fucking great.

[Frogtutor]

2. 1967; But don't we have a reputation for just whining about being

misunderstood? LOL

Frogtutor

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. WHADDAYA MEAN??? I'm a Gen Xer??? Holy CWAP! I thought

I was better than Gen Xers!!! Dammit. (1970 here) ;)

[Lavender Brown]

5. 79ers are a lost generation

We are neither X nor Y. :)

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

6. 1974 here

I always thought I was a late Xer and had more in common with the Ys... Meaning my coming-of-age movie is not Grosse Pointe Blank; it's Spun.

[Connie_Corleone]

11. Don't forget our only TV show

Melrose Place.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

14. Actually, it's 90210

They were 17 when we were 17. I remember watching the show and laughing at how wrong it was.

[obreaslan]

17. Actually, they were 32 when we were 17....

;)

[Worst Username Ever]

18. What about saved by the bell?

ugh.

[Connie_Corleone]

19. 90210 was too young for me.

I was a senior in high school when they were supposed to be freshmen.

[Biased Liberal Media]

42. I can describe WRONG to you in 3 words

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN.

[Connie_Corleone]

7. I thought the generation was 20 years

1965 to 1985?

Anyhoo, I was born in 1971. So, we're no longer considered slackers now??

[Goldmund]

8. 1975 here

Oh no, don't tell me I belong to that loser generation too! Fuck!

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. I know....I know....I think we need to form a support group...

sigh....:hi:

[Zuni]

10. yes. We are unjustly maligned and will all become serial killers

:hi:

[Goldmund]

24. I bet you I suck more than you or Mrs Grumpy put together.

So fuck you. You don't even know what true suckage is. You think you're ugly? Look at my picture in the gallery, motherfucker.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

13. 1970 here....

and I have heard the Gen X is defined as 65-85. Then we have Gen Y and now Millenials.....:sigh: who knew? :hi:

[obreaslan]

16. Sounds good. 1972 here.

:hi:

[Crankie Avalon]

20. 1967, here...

...August '67, actually, so I was born during what the boomers call "The Summer of Love.":grouphug:

[AlCzervik]

30. me too!

[meganmonkey]

21. 1974 here - And I actually read Copeland's book

in a college existentialism class. He supposedly coined the term Generation X.

[NashVegas]

29. Not So

Generation X was a punk / new wave band (depending on whom you ask) that came out years before anyone ever heard of Coupland.

Kind of annoying, really, because those of us who were around at the time saw ourselves not defined by our years as much as our subculture. I know baby boomers who could have been called Gen X, I've known supposed Gen Xers who were happy to consume whatever swill comes their way.

[Dora]

37. Good point

Although, I do appreciate the diversity of subcultures that the Gen-X label has come to include. Freaks, mods, skins, stoners, greasers, headbangers, geeks, etc.

I still identify with the subculture of exclusion that connected all our groups. Isn't it that that made us so un-labelable, hence the generic "X"?

We're the generation that was ignored until we were old enough to spend money. All the adults were too busy partying or protesting to give much of a damn about what the kids were doing. We're the original latchkey generation.

[NashVegas]

38. Aye

I've decided to see if we can get a subculture group started.

[laheina]

49. That subculture yielded some very positive trends.

I think, if you look at people in our group, we have a tendency toward innovation. Also, we have produced the unfathomable trend of giving up high paying jobs/careers to either have lives and raise nurtured children or to do work that is socially valuable.

[Susang]

39. "Not so"

Before it was a punk band, it was a book. Copeland knew this. It was a book written in the early 60s about the mods and rockers culture. Douglas Copeland used the term intentionally, knowing people would associate it with the band first and not the book. Here's a brief synopsis if you don't believe me.

Generation X


by Charles Hamblett, Jane Deverson

Bomp review: No, not THAT Generation X. This is where it started. The authors interviewed a lot of British teens around 1963, who seemed to feel themselves in a certain void... the Beatles were old-hat to them, they were getting into Blue Beat... many of them were in fact Mods, though they didn't always call themselves that. They talk not just about music, but about life, religion, sex, and a lot more. Not an academic work by any means, but a classic of pop sociology that captures a moment in time, out of which so much soon erupted. This book was read by every questioning young person of the time; it had a huge impact. And yes, Billy Idol read it too...

http://www.bomp.com/BompbooksMod.html

[NashVegas]

44. Hey That's Fine

and a find.

[Dora]

35. If you were required to read it for a class

Then that makes your membership suspect.

Kidding.

[meganmonkey]

40. c'mon, it was an existentialism class! I 'minored' in philosophy!

That, coupled with my major in Anthropology, makes me a perfect candidate for bleeding-heart liberalism!

;)

[laheina]

50. Copeland in existentialism? nt

[WoodrowFan]

22. like it would need adult supervision

(runs away very fast, for an old fart boomer.)

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

23. Perfect for our generation

Everyone comments but no one specifically ADVOCATES a gen x group...

There's an appropriate Simpsons quote--of course. From the Homerpalooza episode: "Dude, are you, like, being sarcastic?" "Like, I don't even know anymore!"

[Worst Username Ever]

25. "i am for it."

I feel so misunderstood. You just don't understand me.

[Dora]

34. Okay, OK! I'll advocate!

[Phillycat]

28. I'm in.

[Dora]

32. Perhaps there could be more stringent criteria for joining

Rather than looking at the simplicity of a birth date, let's start applying some rules of outright discrimination, eh? For example:

1) Did you ever use Aqua Net between the ages of 14-19? If you made up your own mohawk-holding styling product, what was your recipe?

1.5) If you weren't punk, what made you so prep?

2) Did you or or a date wear a bolo tie to a high school dance?

3) How many issues of Interview Magazine did you pretend to read?

4) Do you remember life before MTV? What videos do you remember being in high rotation when MTV was new? (I remember Hall and Oates, "Maneater")

5) What does Frankie say?

6) What brand of cigarettes bore a fashion designer's imprint?

[gollygee]

33. 1969 here

I'd join if you had a group :)

[Susang]

36. Like nails on a chalkboard

I love all my fellow Gen-Xers, but as I turn 40, it seems more and more like a construct and less like a real phenomenon. So I'll just read my Douglas Coupland while I work at my McJob and cry in my expensive coffee. :-(

[Biased Liberal Media]

43. 1978 here and no diggity, no doubt, I'd join n/t

[Caoimhe]

45. I have an idea, let's call it

The RELUCTANT PROVIDERS since we are paying for Social Security we will never benefit from. :shrug:

[Caoimhe]

46. 1971 by the way

I was a couple months old when Kerry gave his "Vietnam" Speech before the Senate Committee. I grew up wearing flowery corduroy bellbottom pants with no knees and even had a tshirt with a picture of David Cassidy on the front. Short satin gym shorts with the racing stripes down the sides. Oh god, the memories.

[Worst Username Ever]

47. Socks

don't forget the socks. Gym socks with stripes, up to the knees.

That is also when basketball shorts were actaully short.

[laheina]

52. LOL!

What a great idea. And I'd love to participate too. 1976;)