Maybe They're Just Jealous

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Mostly this annoys me because it's not our fault. It's marketing and we can't really help being a large market. Personally, I'd like to retire NOW and I'm still nine years short of 65. The fact that I'll have to keep working until I drop dead isn't a plus in my eyes.

The fact that older women are supposed to be sexy and hot - I question the value of that to the women in involved, too. It just means that looking and acting your age is now not good enough. Everyone knows that given enough money and desire you can maintain a youthful appearance a little longer, but not forever. After a while the Joan Rivers effect takes over. There are a lot of products out there that do nothing to stop aging, but are marketed as secrets of youth. They're not, but what they are is expensive as hell.

On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with a pony tail or other choices that identify us with our own generation. We are who we are. I'm not apologizing for it, or trying to look like a member of another generation.

I'm getting more than a little tired of the resentment directed at us as people. Is everyone so dumb as not to be able to see that where there's a market there's advertising and where there's advertising there's complementary editorial content? We'd be better off if there weren't so many people looking at us and seeing dollar signs.

Whoa! Number one, I am NOT a boomer! As someone born in '62 I do NOT fall within the definitions of this generation group and I RESENT being classifed as same!

Secondly, get over it "Boomers" - you are NOT middle-aged and have not been for decades! As someone who is in their early 40's, I know damned well even I am not middle aged, since it is highly unlikely I will live beyond 80. It is laughable for people who are in their 50's and even 60's to keep thinking and acting as if THEY were "middle-aged"! No way are they living to 100+ years!

Thirdly, why is it so bleeding wrong to get older, to be older and to accept that your body IS aging and so is your brain! It is part of the natural aging process in ANY species! While I do not advocate that people just "give up and give in" after 40, they SHOULD stop thinking and acting "just like they were when they were 20" 'cause they are not 20 and never will be that age again . . .

Sit back, relax, slow down and enjoy being able to say to those "young whipper-snappers" well, I remember when I was YOUR age and we did things differently . . .

"Sit back, relax, slow down and enjoy being able to say to those "young whipper-snappers" well, I remember when I was YOUR age and we did things differently"

I love saying that. It drives my kids nuts! But even in their minds, we grew up in a pretty cool time. I can't imagine ever going to a rock concert with my parents, but mine have come with us on more than one occasion. I don't mind getting older. I have more time now to enjoy life!

I wish Boomers would hurry up and get out of the way. Your track record as Americans is dubious at best. Let's see, Civil Right's- What civil rights?.That was meant only for yourself. The rest of us can either go to church or go to jail. You screwed up Vietnam and now the Boomer in the White House is screwing this war up too. So, please go drop acid in a field somewhere

Dear X er,

I assume you use the name "X" because you are unable to sign your name. You ably demonstrate the inability to express a coherent thought that is so common to the generations that followed the Baby Boom. I will complement you, however, on your brevity. Most youngsters would take much longer to say so little.

I cannot refute anything you say because your writing is incomprehensible. The exception is your comment about George Bush.

Yes, Bush is a Baby Boomer and, yes, he is screwing up this war. But his inability to wage an effective war has nothing to do with when he was born, and everything to do with his incompetency, lack of rational decision-making skills and slipshod reasoning.

I would think you would look up to him.

I was born in 1961, yet I vehemently reject any membership within the baby boomer club, as well as Generation X.
I believe I am rational enough to not apply my view to each boomer individual, therefore the following comment is meant in the most general light as possible. Some of my blessed relatives are boomers. So are some of my best friends.
Maybe it is the fault of the media. Usually is, which is really screwed up, since they should know to take greater care for accuracy.
So if the following doesn't apply to you, then don't bother. Sorry.
That said:
If it wasn't for the Boomers' self-righteous, know-it-all flauting of their all-knowing and all wise minds and super-deep values that they have imposed on the rest of us, all the while shouting about 'freedom' (unless you don't agree with them)-
Drugs would probably be legal and safely regulated.
We wouldn't be faced with the right wing fundamentalist backlash now and for the foreseeable future.
The popular culture of today, a direct result of unprotected free love practices, might not suck quite as much as it does. Might actually have some substance.
My name is Tim and I hope I spelled it right. I did capitalize it, right? Better double check that.
But dang it, I just got that youngster problem with brevity.

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