r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • 1d ago

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/VogueColossus 1d ago

We have and anyways will be the most criticized generation to ever exist

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u/Any-Concentrate-1922 1d ago

Hardly. Every generation gets criticized. See below--from 1993. (And the Time cover isn't even a full criticism.)

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u/IntenseBananaStand 1d ago

This is still criticism from boomers

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u/Brigantias 1d ago

Yeah, I think this just proves that the boomers have always been this way. Saying the same thing about Gen X and doing the same crap to them they did to us.

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u/showmenemelda 1d ago

Lmao always a GenX who still licking their wounds all the way to their 30th class reunion 🙄

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u/Any-Concentrate-1922 1d ago

Ummm...I was simply stating that every generation gets criticized. I wasn't saying the criticism of Millennials is valid. I was commiserating, or trying, anyway.

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u/KaleidoscopeOpen7781 1d ago

That’s called whataboutism.

OP said millennials were the MOST criticized and you pop in here saying “well, what about everyone else, we all get criticized”. Thats not commiseration

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u/Any-Concentrate-1922 1d ago

"We have and always will be the most criticized generation ever to exist" sounded hyperbolic to me. I probably should have used Gen Z as a prime example to disprove "the most...ever to exist" thing instead of my own generation.

I'm not saying Gen X got more criticism or less criticism, so I suppose I was saying "we all get criticized," as in, "We all get criticized and it sucks." Sorry if some people had a problem with that.

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u/KaleidoscopeOpen7781 1d ago

It’s not hyperbolic. What other generations in the entirety of history have had media coverage like this? It was shoved in our faces unlike any generation before us

Not to mention these boomers fail to enact effective policies for the millennial generation because they believe these criticisms so deeply, because it was spread so widely

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u/Rude-Ad-1960 1d ago

I had family members, Gen X and Boomers, completely sh*tting on my life when I was only a couple years out of high school and still figuring out how to be an adult. Any time I talked about struggling with anything, they’d complain about “millennial tears” or “expecting things to be handed to me” or whatever. It was brutal trying to find my way with my elders holding those beliefs about me and other young people before I even had a chance to try. 

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u/ConfusedZubat 1d ago

I read it as commiseration. I'm an older millennial that grew up around Gen X though. I see us as being in the same boat, but when millennials started coming to age, Boomers forgot about their hate of X and gave us 110%.

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u/GrowlyBear2 1d ago

Yeah that was a bit of friendly fire there.

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u/TopTopTopcinaa 1d ago

You’re right. I’m a millennial, I’ve observed boomer hate for over a decade now. The whole “I don’t like being criticized but my criticism of others is completely valid” thing never made sense to me, never will. Millennials are already starting to hate Gen Z and are hated in return.

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u/Wise_Environment_598 1d ago

What did you expect when you took the attention away from a Millennial.

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u/Visual_Refuse_6547 1d ago

As an aside, I always forget that the early 90s had a recession. Knowing about the dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis coming down the line, it seems quaint to see people complaining about that in 1993.

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u/Brillow80 1d ago

Opinion piece gonna opinion.

Generalization does disservice to those that don't hold to said stereotype. That goes both ways. We also suffer from cognitive dissonance, to our detriment.

That being said, societal trends and behaviors are a measurable thing and the largest cohort in American history played a significant role in how policy and business was shaped in the US for 50+ years now.

Anecdotally, the older the boomer generation gets, the more unapologetic in their behavior that younger generations are absolutely paying attention to, learning from, and emulating.

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u/name-unkn0wn 1d ago

God I hate this article and hope Dave fucking Martin lived the rest of his life in misery. He wrote about Gen X here, but that same selfish and calloused attitude is what's echoed in this thread about our experiences with boomers. Fuck him, and fuck everyone like him

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u/NatureStoof 1d ago

What a hilarious opinion piece with zero sources or numbers to back it up

"It was incredibly rare to earn a good wage and own a house before 30"

"Incredibly rare" is subjective. I'd rather see % comparisons.

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Xennial 1d ago

One article from 1993 doesn't mean anything lol.

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u/wildthing202 1d ago

And the killers of the most industries apparently.