#from the arbitrary distinction of year cutoffs for generational divides. ill wait
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i know ive said this exact same thing ten thousand times before but it actually boggles my mind that we have just sort of accepted "generational divides" and the resulting discourse. generations are not real on the population scale. there is no dividing year where one generation starts and the next begins. the closest you can get to this is specifically BABY BOOMERS. who were born during the BABY BOOM. because a huge large amount of people had children immediately following the second world war. thats it. since then there has not been another clear generational divide and the things you think are clear divides are probably divides between specifically your age demographic and specifically your parents age demographic. because that's what a generation actually is when we stop trying to form stupid little clubs. im no longer participating in the legitimization of these terms & if i see the word zoomer one more time i'll detonate the explosives
#good idea generator#esp bc the most common way ppl try to draw distinctions other than arguing abt year cutoffs#is things like 'what technology you had as a kid' 'what tv shows did you watch'#like. can you at LEAST talk about REAL WORLD EVENTS??? MAYBE?? AND NOT SOMETHING THAT WILL CHANGE#BASED ON PERSONAL TASTE AND/OR AVAILABLE FUNDS TO BUY NEW SHIT ALL THE TIME??#also cant lie to you i just personally resent the cutoff for millennial being before the millennium. why are we trying to pick a random yr#in the 90s. when the word specifically references the millennium. obviously the cutoff should be 2000#'oh its bc they were children in the 90s' no actually i dont think 96 babies are 90s kids#96 in terms of 'experiencing the 90s' is exactly the same as 97-99. you were baby. you experienced baby#i think for you to be a [decade] kid. you need to be born before that decade starts. if you're not at least 10 by the end of that decade#u cant claim it. sorry. you were not a kid then you were baby#if you disagree with this explain to me exactly in what way this arbitrary distinction is different#from the arbitrary distinction of year cutoffs for generational divides. ill wait
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