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Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.
No, as long as he stays below 50 he'll be fine.
Yeah, but he's not dead yet like the picture implies
Neither is Madonna. Those aren't pictures of dead boomers, just famous ones.
The identifier should be started at the age you entered society, and not the age you came out of your mother’s womb.
You can infer the age you entered society from the age you left the womb.
That doesn't work. Technically I'm a Boomer, but I act and think completely like a Gen-Xer.
In fact growing up I used to give Boomers crap myself, until I got more wise. They acted completely different from me, based on the times they grew up in.
I didn’t come up with the age range, but it’s been well established for a while now. Someone else told me about “Generation Jones”, which is basically just the younger half of the Boomer generation I guess. I feel like that’s splitting hairs, but who knows, maybe it makes some sort of sense to you?
That's....not even close to a Boomer. WW2 ended 20 years earlier lol.
The generally accepted window for Baby Boomers, despite horny soldiers being home from WW2 for many years after 1945, is the window written in the post.
Well that is some serious foreplay, my god.
I don’t understand, are you confused at the age range for Boomers? It literally says it in the image…
Yes. Didn't notice those dates. Still makes no sense if you take the name literally though...
You're wrong chronologically, but you're right based on how those labels are used to judge people's social values.
So it takes 20 years for a sexed up WW2 vet to hop in the sack after returning from the war?
Fuck if I know, that's not what I'm speaking about.
You don't pop out of your mother's womb already programmed to have an understanding of the socieity that you live in. You learn as you go from external sources (parents, family, society) and you act a certain way at each milestone of your life (child, young teenager, older teenager, young adult, adult, middle aged, senior).
When we all judge someone by applying a generation label its done based on how they act/opine, and not the chronological date that they entered the World. There's a lag/delay from when a person starts to exist on this Earth to the time they form a personality and express said personality.
I get where they're coming from.
The starting point is normally defined at the time you came out of your mother's womb, but it really shouldn't be.
It should be started at the point where you first enter society as a child, and start learning your generation's societal values.
Basically, when you started kindergarten, or Elementary School.
They did that for Gen Z, where it’s essentially the dividing line between people who were more or less cognizant when 9/11 happened, and those who weren’t.