Gen X: The Generation That Never Existed

I’ve encountered some older Gen X armchair punks who are extremely fucking reactionary. There’s a notorious Atlanta zine run by one of them that I pray to god gets washed away in a righteous Gen Z internet uprising sometime soon

basically white dudes who think their misogyny, homophobia, and racism means they’re sticking it to the establishment and thinking independently

Gen n: we have cultural touchstones you don’t ~understand~
Gen n+ 1: FUCK U, WE GET THEM, O BOY DO WE THEY SUCK AND EVEN U DONT GET THEM.

aren't generational cultural touchstones always driven by people who were old enough to have picked up on the last generation's touchstones? I mean that time delay is kind of built in

Well, exactly.

The point was simply that there's *one* difference (in the UK) between growing up 65-73, and after that.

Not a definer of an entire geberation and the suggestion that one is "arguably" better than the other was a little gentle retort to Ashley Pomeroy above. i.e. a joke.

yesterday a friends 14 year old daughter was telling me about karens (had never heard the term before).
in her world they are basically pushy mums who get their kids involved in every after school club etc.

Twenty-somethings I speak to all say that big Karen energy is wanting to speak to a manager, having highlights on a Rachel from Friends hairstyle variant they haven’t abandoned since the show was on broadcast, and calling other women ‘hunni’ on FB.

That, and she's an anti-vaxxer.

xp crut:
https://www.chunklet.com/
?

And in ref to the Gen-X subdivision -- this thread could serve as a demarcation line:

Here we post radio-slick, ultracompressed Modern Rock singles 1987-1990 w/ huge gated drums & lots of chorus! (youtube thread)

A few weeks ago I was arguing on fb w/a friend born in the mid-60s about when the Cure stopped being good in response to another friend who was born in the mid-60s earnestly trying to feel the love for the Disintegration album. Anyway, the latter friend just died a couple days ago.

xp not speaking for crut but I assumed he meant https://stompandstammer.com/

is there a non-US version of this generational warfare or

"...Second Reality?

(I didn't see Jesus on Es but I did grab the mod from aminet and then steal the breakbeat sample from it)

― a passing spacecadet"

of course, second reality rocked my world, fucking purple motion d00d

"basically white dudes who think their misogyny, homophobia, and racism means they’re sticking it to the establishment and thinking independently

― esempio (crüt)"

look i grew up on, like, fucking answer me! and bill hicks, i'm not going to say gen x is blameless. some of us have grown and learned since that time and some of us, well, still listen to whatever the fuck jim goad is saying these days.

"is there a non-US version of this generational warfare or

― deems of internment (darraghmac)"

it probably involves acid house deems?

sarahell - I know the band chunklet but am not familiar with the zine - I’m talking about st0mp and st4mm3r

chunklet is generally better known in gen-x circles tbh

Wow, I'd never even heard of that site (stomp etc.) before today. I read three articles (Charlie's Angels movie review, Taylor Swift album review, Orwells album review) quickly and will never be back.

ive never heard of it either and went to it after unpersons ref to see how anything current could sound so boring. I landed on a scots and beck splash page and the anachronistic whiplash severed my head from my body

Josefa at 10:41 16 Nov 19

I think of 1965-1975 as Strong-X, 1961-1964 and 1976-1980 as Weak-X, or transitional gens if you prefer. As a Strong-Xer I do notice stereotypical Millennial traits creeping in with that '76-'80 cohort, and I don't relate to them as much as I do the pre-'76ers as a rule.

eh I mean this just points out the silliness of this, I was born in 74 and definitely relate a hell of a lot more to my friends from HS and my own sister who were born in 76 than I do someone born in 65

I think there are mini generations, basically ppl that were like 2/3 years older than you in HS and to ppl that were 2/3 years younger

Is there any way to avoid repeating arguments about what years generations start and stop?

not that I know of

No

ILX is pretty much repeat the same argument over and over again on most topics.

I mean everybody in the world does that

even truthbombs are long forgotten when the Thread that gave them birth comes again

aw nice gonna go read wheel of time again now

anyway

strong gen x 76 urban wite guy has more or less in common with a weak gen x 78 urban black guy than a strong gen x 76 rural wite chick?

i just need to know before i finalise this card game im developing, thx

misread that as "unban"

if we are gonna just repeat the same arguments over and over again, we could always go back to who should be unbanned or why not

Do we ban Strong X or Weak X?

Generation X began on the day Malcolm X was assassinated and ended on the day Los Angekes by X was released.

every gen xer remembers where they were when they heard about the film jfk

I am my own generation and it is better than yours ✌︎('ω'✌︎ )

i always thought stomp and stammer guy was a youngish boomer but i guess he could be gen x? when i was like 13 or 14 i had an under-the-table part time job at the b00k n00k on buf0rd h1ghw4y, where he was like the music section guy....but my sense of how old "old" people were was probably pretty distorted

sheesh you really dont want them hunting u down for that back tax eh

xp i actually don't know for sure whether he's an old gen xer or a young boomer but i'm guessing he was born sometime in the 60s

xpost hahahahahaha

how gen x is this? i saw the chunklet guy front an mc5 cover band halloween night. i wore earplugs.

idk how "gen x" that is, but it does remind me of when we repeatedly argued about "what and who is a hipster"

RIP Carles

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoH8wx7VQAAwZZ5?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoH8x7wVQAEDDUv?format=jpg&name=large

Better than Girls of Grunge I guess

eXcite, eXpose and eXhilerate!