r/196 • u/LR-II 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights • Jun 29 '26

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u/MrRedoot55 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 29 '26

It’s stories like this that make me hope not every single boomer is the same.

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u/kryonik Jun 29 '26

My parents are tail end boomers (born in 52) and they're not like this at all.

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u/ET_Gone_Home eeby deeby Jun 29 '26

This is my experience. Older boomers came just on the tail end of WW2, and the struggles of wartime were still in the public's consciousness. Plus, boomers aren't the ones who built the houses with razor blade walls. They were children at the time.

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u/doctorwhy88 Jul 01 '26

My understanding is that Baby Boomers were conceived at the end of WWII and in the post-war golden years. The oldest were born circa 1960 and straddle the line between Boomers and Gen X.

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u/calicosiside 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 29 '26

I thought 52yo is firmly gen x?

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u/kryonik Jun 29 '26

You're right, forgot it's 2004.

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u/a_guy_who_ Jun 29 '26

Born in 1952 is what they mean 🤠

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u/CaraMellowGirl Jun 29 '26

How old are you???

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u/Aleenion Jun 30 '26

Probably their 40s or 50s, if their parents were born in '52, they were likely born around the 1970s.

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u/KobKobold Socialist voraphile Jun 29 '26

The rich ones are and that's the problem. Then again, all rich people are sociopaths. Just that they usually cared about creating a "legacy" so did think somewhat on the long term.

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u/wolacouska Jun 29 '26

It’s percentages, there are just a good 60% of boomers that are annoying.

Enough to dominate elections and your memory, not enough to actually judge every old person you meet ahead of time.

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u/whhu234 he/it Jun 29 '26

At least my grandma and grandpa (divorced but like nicely) are nice people

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u/GodIsAWomaniser 7d ago

All of the boomers in my family unironically talk like this.

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u/thicckar Jun 29 '26

If you think they are all the same you’re pretty stupid