Take a wild guess who they put the blame on?
(Yeah I know. Most of the article is behind a paywall)
I feel an overwhelming compulsion to point out that your tirade against generalizations about a generation are including generalizations against a generation. But I’m a dick like that.
“Woker”? Ugh. (actually said to myself out loud out of exasperation before I looked back and saw it was your username… true story)
As a call back to your comment “we’re funnier than your generation could ever be, because we’re smarter (and therefore wittier)”, I also feel that I need to point out that John Oliver is a year older than me, and we were both born near the start of the Gen-X generation; so about as far from the Millenial generation as we could get and not be Boomers.
I would say he’s smart, funny and quite witty for an all-wise High Elder of Civilization.
NO BLAH BLAH BLAH!
The tirade wasn’t against generalization in general, but the particular generalizations made by those two people.
Yep, I chose my username well, for a variety of situations. Anyway, I’m sorry for appropriating a word from African-American Vernacular English. I’m assuming that is why you went “ugh”, right?
Oliver wasn’t the evidence I was providing; watch the video. It’s about older generations growing up with lower IQs because of lead poisoning.
I find older generations funny, I just think that the human race is progressing toward better and better (and less hate-filled) humor. I can’t wait to see what silliness the kids born today come up with! That is, if society doesn’t collapse before they hit puberty.
ETA: Also, Oliver often admits that most of his writing staff are Millenials.
I’m not sure I buy that in this case. Seems just as likely to me that it’s indicative of a small marketing department staffed by relatively inexperienced people. Don’t let the professional status and affiliation with a major-league team fool you… minor-league pro sports in North America are all about making money by spending very little of it.
self-deprecating
Hah, called it.
The problem with a corporate entity (or similar institution) making “self-deprecating” millennial jokes is that, regardless of whether a millennial came up with the idea, it was distributed by something that is not a millennial, thereby removing the obligatory “self” part of “self-deprecating”. There’s no wink at the end or some kind of knowing look that shows any sort of self-awareness or kinship with the people they’re joking about, so it just comes off as condescending dickbaggery. The difference between laughing with and laughing at someone, basically. I’m not sure how that managed to escape their understanding. Maybe Arby’s Twitter account posting clever pop-culture papercrafts tricked them into thinking millennials are cool with The Brandz or something.
Oh come the fuck on do we really need to get in a pissing match? We could compare negatives and positives of every so-called generation, and we’d always come to a stalemate. The whole shitball is created to keep people fighting with each other so they don’t unite like they have in the past. Fuck it though. Fuck the system and fuck trying to win a game that was rigged to lose.
Haha, no way, I work with a lot of stock photography and that exact girl keeps popping up in new places…
To me, this is all just another flavor of the “divide and conquer” Kool-Aid served up by the haves to keep the have nots of every generation at each other’s throats. While all the finger-pointing is going on, they are profiting quite nicely at our expense.
My parents are boomers, as are the parents of all my cousins… Many of my friends who are my age have boomer parents.
Right… but you still made generalizations about their entire generation(s) in response to their generalizations about your generation. If you don’t see that, I don’t know what I can say to make it any clearer.
Also, “generalization in general” amuses me for some reason.
Not at all. My youngest daughter uses “woke” all the time, and she’s as white as me. I feel like it’s a great word and a whole lot more people need to get woke the fuck up around so many things.
My problem was that you made it “woker” to imply “more woke” indicating you possess a greater degree of “woke-fulness”; it hurt the ears inside my brain that do the listening as I read, and in return minimized the impact of your statement (upon me; I won’t speak for others on that).
If you do a word search of “woker” on the Wikipedia page you linked to, you’ll turn up no results. A google search turns up some results, so maybe it’s an up-and-coming variation?
It just makes me cringe.
I never said he was the evidence you were providing; I know it’s the message of the clip you were using. I was providing him as evidence of a person you seem to respect that is a part of a generation that you earlier insulted.
And people that grew up stupider than they had to because of the government being assholes is such a wonderful point to make when calling out an entire generation for the comments of a couple of its members.
Point to you, I guess.
Riiiiiiight. But if they find your generation, or things about it, “funny” it pisses you off?
Yeah, I know that as well, and I almost let that stop me from making my original point; but I went for it.
So by adding that ETA, are you saying he’s nothing but a puppet for his far more talented Millennial writers, and before they came along he was a dolt like all the rest of our generation?
Pretty sure Gen X has boomer AND Silent Gen parents mostly, with some people falling into weird camps like anyone born in 1963 or 1964 (technically a boomer year but closer probably to Gen X really in terms of how someone who actually lived would likely have experienced life). The thing is we’d be better off not bothering with a “generation” and defining things by groups that don’t rely on birth years to quantify.
Agreed, but I was responding to someone saying that we don’t have boomer parents at all, when many of us do.
The more I talk about it the more generations start to remind me of the Chinese Zodiac.
My mom is a boomer, so are most of the parents of my friends and peers.
Personally, I only know a small handful of people whose parents were older when they had them.
After living in the Caribbean, I can’t bring myself to buy an avocado in Canada. The kind you can get here is a sad, sad version of the big fresh ones available in warmer climates. Those ones are quite wonderful.
You forgot Penultimate League.
Lighten up, Francis.
my older siblings are Gen X (I am a Xennial) and our parents are both boomers
I’m Gen X. I don’t remember every really being made fun of. But I’m at the age where my memory is questionable.
I dunno if you also experienced this, but from middle school on, I was always told that GenX didn’t have the numbers to matter in any way. (So it was really nice of Mandela to give us that shout-out after he got out of jail.)