It hurts me like you wouldn’t believe that Gen X is lumped in with the Boomers.
Like, you have no idea how much that sucks.
I get it, I totally get it. My demo (white men between 45 and 65, more or less) went hardest among all demographics for Shitler and Jeffrey Dahmer Vance, and there is just everything in the world to hate about that.
But the Boomers are our parents, and they are the ones who voted for Nixon, twice. They voted for Reagan, twice. They voted for W Bush, twice. They invented “political correctness” and mastered the art of the racist dog whistle.
They suck so hard, and a whole lot of us in Gen X have spent our entire lives trying to clean up the mess they made.
And I know this comes off as hashtag not all men, but I have to say it: there are so many of us who despise the Boomers, grew up listening to punk rock, hating Reagan and both Bushes, invented Grunge, volunteered for Obama and our local version of Bernie, and feel closer to Millennials than we do our parents. We hate Late Capitalism even more than you do, because we remember a time before the Boomers handed the keys to the oligarchs. We remember a growing economy and a president who wasn’t a complete fuckup, surrounded by complete fuckups.
We are on your side, we listen to you and we hear you the way we wanted to be heard. We scold you about Chat GPT because we care about you and don’t want you to become functionally illiterate.
I know I’m not the only Old who feels this way. We love you damn kids today, and we’re doing our best to support you.
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The greater honeyguide is known to guide people to the nests of wild bees. A guiding bird attracts a person’s attention with wavering, chattering “‘tya’ notes compounded with peeps or pipes”, sounds it also gives in aggression. The guiding bird flies toward an occupied nest (greater honeyguides know the sites of many bees’ nests in their territories) and then stops nearby the nest. Honey-hunters then do a final search for the bee colony, and if deemed suitable, harvest honey from the bee colony through the use of fire and smoke to subdue the bees, and axes and machetes to expose the colony. After harvesting the honey, the honeyguide eats wax that is left.
Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it’s not from Twitter, it’s not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, “today’s agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss.” And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phraseedited over a piece of“Live, Laugh, Love” wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”
ALT
