Boomer female (56yo) runs 18:07 5K

Why does the year they emerged from a birthing person matter? So long as they identify as a Boomer, they're a Boomer. That would be the equitable resolution to this debate.

runn wrote:Yes. Growing up I was never considered a Boomer (born in 1959). My older brother and cousins were. Somewhere along the line I became a Boomer.

Sorry kid, but you were always a boomer. You might be on the younger side of the boomers but you're still a boomer.

looki wrote:

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Face the facts, you're a Boomer! wrote:

runn wrote:Yes. Growing up I was never considered a Boomer (born in 1959). My older brother and cousins were. Somewhere along the line I became a Boomer.

Sorry kid, but you were always a boomer. You might be on the younger side of the boomers but you're still a boomer.

Good Lord, you're dense. Have someone literate read my explanation.

I don't really care if I'm a Boomer or not, you dolt.

I'm telling you that when I was growing up (yes, my personal experience) my age group was not considered Boomers. Now we are. As others have noted- the definition changed over the years.

I was born in 1972 and I'm considered gen X. My youth was slackers, grunge, and in black/hip-hop culture that's when people started wearing the big saggy pants. The way we always looked at it was that boomers were our parents. Boomers were part of the "baby-boom" of prosperity that occurred the decade after WWII when soldiers back from the war started families and was a period of great optimism. By the time we grew up the mood was much more pessimistic but baby boomers still outnumbered us and we considered them somewhat out of touch. I think of people born in the late 40s and 50s as baby boomers. 60s, not so much. I think now historians want to categorize everyone so they squeezed more years into baby boomers. But at the time when I first heard the term gen-X there was not the idea that everyone was in a gen group. Some people like my older siblings were kind of in-between. There wasn't really a name for them. Now I guess my older siblings would be considered gen-X but at the time they definitely wouldn't. We would have considered them old. Not as old as our parents though.

bfef wrote:

I think of people born in the late 40s and 50s as baby boomers. 60s, not so much. I think now historians want to categorize everyone so they squeezed more years into baby boomers. But at the time when I first heard the term gen-X there was not the idea that everyone was in a gen group.

Born in 1969, and I agree with this and the others that say people born in '60s were not considered Boomers back in the day.

Face the facts, you're a Boomer! wrote:

runn wrote:Yes. Growing up I was never considered a Boomer (born in 1959). My older brother and cousins were. Somewhere along the line I became a Boomer.

Sorry kid, but you were always a boomer. You might be on the younger side of the boomers but you're still a boomer.

b 1958, I recall that by early 1970s (my early mid-teens) we were known as the Baby Boomers. Peak years for number of births were in the late 50s.

1964 is the conventional cutoff, but it's a stupid cutoff. Demographically, by the time you get into the 1960s, birth rates were not "booming" but drastically declining.

https://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p25-1141.pdf

Culturally, someone born in 1945 and someone born in 1964 have very little in common and have completely different kinds of childhood memories. Also, when mothers born in 1945 were having children in 1964, it's just stupid to say that a mother and child belong to the same generation.

Whose got the record? that's pretty smoking for 56.

Funny how these things change over time. I remember we sort of separated ourselves into 80s kids and 90s kids. We didn't consider 80s kids to be gen x. 80s kids were stereotypically clean cut and materialistic. Think "Wall Street" and "Risky Business". They rebelled hard against the boomers who they saw as a bunch of hippies. There was nothing more uncool than a long haired hippy in the 80s. 90s kids idolized the 60s. LSD became very popular again. We even tried to bring Woodstock back.

You can't believe everything on Wiki. These date ranges and labels are made up - nothing like absolute and widely agreed on. "Baby Boom" refers to an increase in (North American) birth rates in the years immediately following the end of World War II, when large numbers of men returned home from military service. It's a bit silly to assume that this same phenomenon applies to children born nearly 20 years later.

Baby Boomer Bodybuilding wrote:

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walkingonsunshine wrote:

Whose got the record? that's pretty smoking for 56.

She's definitely smoking hot for 56.

"Culturally, someone born in 1945 and someone born in 1964 have very little in common and have completely different kinds of childhood memories. Also, when mothers born in 1945 were having children in 1964, it's just stupid to say that a mother and child belong to the same generation."

This is an excellent point and i still think that those born in the 1960's were never considered to be "Baby Boomers" until recent info-graphics online started showing this. Please show me an official publication of any kind from the 70's & 80's demonstrating this???

When the film "Baby Boom" came out in 1987, Diane Keaton who was born January 5, 1946 played one of the lead roles as the Adoptive Mother - She would have been almost 40 years old at he time. She is described as a "Yuppie". So here's what Online today copied from Google -

"What generation are yuppies?

Article bookmarked. Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y."

Do you see the Bull$hit Here? How could she be considered a "Yuppie" - "being born between late 1970's and the mid 1990's" But yet in the film she is nearly 40 years old in 1987??/WTF!!! Does she look like someone who's roughly 10-15 years old in that Film - Give me a F'ing Break!!!

This is a perfect example of hoe these Contemporary Artificial Internet Infographics misrepresent and miscategorize people groups. There was a world before the F'ing Internet and Boomers were part of the generation born after the end of WWII during the Eisenhower years - and everyone understood this and knew it as FACT!!!

People seem to use "Boomer" to refer to anyone older than them and "Millennial" to refer to anyone younger.

And "yuppies" were- young urban professionals. We tended to be mocking them in the late 80's . There were also Buppies. By no means did "yuppie" refer to all people of a certain age. And as mentioned by another poster, when "generation-x" was thrown around, besides being the name of Billie Idols first band, it had cultural qualifiers, Age was only one of those qualifiers.

I was born in 1960 and identify as Gen X, which describes my experiences growing up. Many of the people I went to school with probably identify as Boomer.

The guy who popularized the term "Gen X" with a book published in 1991, Douglas Coupland, was born in 1961 and described the same things I experienced and felt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland

the narrative that this is just a new media construct is plain wrong--maybe the delineation shifted from pre-1960 to 1964 ca. the 1980s, but not in past 5, 10, or 20 years.

Per the yuppies, that term came to fame ca. 1984 election, as a demographic acronym. First they called them Yumpies--young urban male professionals. They were considered somewhat shallow and money-driven, less idealistic than the early boomers. Michael J. Fox would have been the perfect Yuppie. Unlike today's incels, rampant on this board, but they actually got a lot of action. A few years later they had double income no kids.

The fact that US Census Bureau classifies Boomer 1 as 1946-55 and Boomer 2 as 1956-64 still indicates that the Generation (which is ~20 years for the ill-informed here) also adds verification to the long held (going back decades) that the Boomers era of birth was 1946 to '64.

But the previous posters are right. I am 1957, and growing up, even into 20's I was always 'marginally' boomer, there was a grey area of 'no generation' yet. It refers to the increased birth-rate in the post war period.

Generation X was (retrospectively) so called, because there was no event leading to it and that boundary has shifted upwards...and probably will continue shifting.

However, the only definition and measurement is the population age distribution over time.

URTOTALLYWRONG! wrote:

. She is described as a "Yuppie".

"What generation are yuppies?

YUPPIE was never a generation, it is an acronym and referred to people (in 80's I think) who were Young UPwardly mobile.

DINKIES were Double Income No Kids

These are acronyms of lifestyle, not generation