Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success

• rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel like “Boomer” has lost all genuine meaning and really has just become “anyone over 40.” Pretty soon Gen X will be the new Boomers and Gen Z and Gen Alpha will pivot to blindly loathing them and blaming them for climate change and the myriad atrocities of capitalism.

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  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it still has meaning. Just not the same meaning it had 10ish years ago. “Boomer” has transcended description of a particular generation and now refers to a general set of real or perceived attitudes and behaviors.

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    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like that’s a slippery slope and that in other contexts reappropriating an otherwise neutral signifier into what is functionally a slur would immediately be identified as unethical. It’s like people using “gay” to mean “stupid” or “uncool.” And, for anyone outraged at the comparison, no, sexual orientation and a person’s age aren’t the same thing. But they’re both facets of people that are beyond their individual control and ageism is a genuine form of discrimination.

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