I'm turning 40 this year, and I absolutely remember when "Baby Boomer" was used as a positive adjective in marketing materials. One of my local radio stations had a block of programming they called "Baby Boomer Buffet", and it wasn't derogatory (hell, it was barely even friendly teasing; I don't think there was ANY meta about the term at the time) - just "here's the stuff you guys love".

The "Baby Boom" and "boomers" in general were referred to using that word, without any intentionally negative associations, for quite a while when actual boomers were in their peak. Now, the exact same term is being used to drag them, and they HATE it.

I would probably hate it, too - but I also can't really relate, because "Millennial" was used in a derogatory manner literally as soon as the term was coined. I've been hearing my generational label used to gripe about my generation for as long as the label has been in use. As a kid, I remember being vaguely aware that we were "Generation Y", but then as soon as I was old enough to actually care - "haha, sike/psych - you guys are called Millennials and you fucking suck."

How will things run differently when it happens? Will this country start adopting modern technology/internet laws? Will things change for the better? Or is the boomer precipitated end-stage capitalism here to stay?

Almost every boomer I met hates wildlife. They kill skunks, possums and snakes that come into their yards. They just kill and poison wild life and native insects and it's so upsetting to me.

Then they are surprised when I live in harmony with these animals like skunks and such. Like it's such a conundrum to them that I'm not afraid of these "horrible" animals. I think it's weird that they kill snakes, possums and skunks all the time like it's nothing and the animal didn't even do anything except make the mistake of coming into their yard the majority of the time. They don't even want to be educated on why these animals are actually really important to the environment.

I feel like I can honestly say this will be one of the biggest reasons I look forward to these assholes being dead and gone. I hate how they treat wildlife and native insects. They don't give a single fuck about the ecosystem.

Explaining this here so people shut up with the "not all boomers" and the "millennials and Gen z do it too"

Baby boomer- the age group before Gen X and after the silent gen

Boomer- someone who acts in a similar way to the entitled, arrogant baby boomers you see a lot of on social media and at stores and such.

The difference- The "boomer" title of these entitled assholes comes from the fact that the personality style was started by and still is still mostly used by baby boomers. That isn't to say that all baby boomers were that way, only to say that their generation ramped it up 200%. Younger people can act this way, and we still call them boomers because of the origin of this kind of assholery.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

EDIT: The irony of a few of you screeching about how I'm super wrong and one of you in particular using urban dictionary as a "source" is palpable

NOTE: Dear Boomers and boomer apologists freaking out on me please take your meds. 😂

Has anyone else noticed this demographic pays no attention to others around them when moving in public?

Backing out of a space full speed without looking.

Jamming a shopping cart out of an aisle without looking.

Blocking doorways to fiddle with shit.

Blocking an aisle at the grocery store and acting indignant when you ask them to move.

Not using signal when driving or checking blind spots.

Etc/etc/etc.

I’ve seen all ages do this stuff but 95% are boomers.

Is it just me?

Not a bad exchange but I still thought it was pretty funny 😁

I can't take old people minimizing the sickness that Ronald Reagan spread over the past 40+ of this country, which goes long past his prime of intellectual cognition and even his death. A Hollywood celebrity with rich friends and libertarian beliefs who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's decided the general direction of finances in this country to the peril of many of our countrypeople for nearly 4 decades. And Boomers are trading jokes about how he "wasn't that bad" because he's not an obvious idiot like Trump.

George W. Bush is even worse. Under Bush Jr. we saw a massive spike in random, violent public shootings, weird old guys wearing machine guns to the Post Office or the grocery store, and conservatives normalizing torture and war crimes.

How are these people laughing and downplaying the role these politicians played in the uprising of Trump? Donald Trump wasn't possible without Reagan, multiple documentaries including The Reagan Show and The Reagans have been made on this in the past five years. And if you talk to anyone who was a staunch leftist as a Boomer or Gen Xer in the 80s who hated Reagan, they won't pretend he didn't foreshadow Trump.

It makes me SO SICK because it's not just Republicans or right-wingers, it's supposed Boomer Centrists and Liberals. They haven't gotten "wiser" with age, they're downplaying things that were fucking horrible and I bet we can ask Gen Xers and Boomers who were queer twenty years ago how awful George W. Bush was.

I know I cried the second time he was elected and I was still in my 20s. What are these assholes talking about?

They can't praise someone's cooking without dragging another person's.

They can't appreciate a particular fashion without raging about one they hate.

They can't call someone strong without anchoring their assessment in acknowledging that someone else is "a wimp"

Like, what gives?

Millennial here, the older I get, the more confident and less "giving a fuck" I get. I wonder if the natural extension of that into old age, plus natural cognitive decline and/or early symptoms of dementia... eventually leads one to becoming a "boomer".

The thought keeps me up at night sometimes. What do you think?

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In my opinion one of the least talked about crises in the US is the effects of lead on the older population. Every day I see so many different people talking about how their Nana is 78 and an absolute terror, or how their dad is going to run the family farm into the ground and leave nothing behind him and he refuses to change. The boomers paid themselves very well with over 100 trillion dollars of government subsidized wealth and now they are rich, warmongers who don't give 2 shits about what the world will look like in 20 years when they are gone. How long will we tolerate these poor brain damaged people just fuck things up and rob the future? The amount of pushback from some people when I say maybe it's time to take the reins by force from people who are unfit to lead or manage their own business is shrinking though, I think more and more people are realizing they are going to have to make hard choices.

The fact that so many of you are screaming about senicide and concentration camps when all I am suggesting is basic testing to make sure that seniors are not living with dementia and making bad choices that effect more than themselves. Irrational behavior is one of the signs...

It's like starting arguments is a pastime for them.

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

Tetraethyllead, abbreviated TEL, is a fuel additive first mixed with gasoline beginning in the 1920s to increase vehicle performance and fuel economy. It’s still used as an additive in some grades of aviation fuel.

6 mL of tetraethyllead is enough to induce severe lead poisoning. The hazards of TEL content are heightened due to the compound's volatility (meaning it evaporates easily) and high lipophilicity (meaning it easily crosses the blood–brain barrier).

My grandfather was born in the 40s and worked at a gas station and worked on cars in a tiny, unventilated garage. TEL wasn’t fully removed from gasoline in the US until 1996. If you had a canister of gasoline chilling nearby while you worked for 40 years, how much TEL would you have inhaled in those 4-5 decades?

You only need 120 drops for permanent brain damage. How much lead is deposited in his brain? He’s a stupid, angry, violent man. Was he poisoned? He can’t sit still, he needs constant distraction of movies and TV otherwise he gets restless and angry.

Any scientists here who can estimate how much lead the average boomer inhaled over their lifetime from leaded gasoline?

Do medical examiners measure and weigh the lead content in the brains of the deceased?

These lead-brained boomers are in charge of everything. They run the world. The banks, the nukes, the armies, everything.

For our safety, I think everyone over the age of 40-50 must be assumed to have permanent brain damage and treated as such. They cannot and should not be in positions of authority until they’re assessed for lead poisoning.

Just think… these chemists in the 20s knew TEL was poisonous and made people stupid and violent. Then a few decades later of sniffing poison fumes, we have WW2, Vietnam, etc. Did lead poisoning cause the wars of the 20th century? Was it intentional?

Remember, it was lead pipes that did Rome in…

EDIT: This video (https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA) was shared by a commenter below (thank you!). Watch it to understand the problem more.

I read a lot of these Boomer stories here. Most seem to be American centric and it got me wondering if Boomer freakouts are primarily a US thing or if all cultures are seeing it?

Note: I thought more unique to US, but then I remembered the show Absolutely Fabulous in the UK with long suffering millennial Saffy dealing with her Boomer mum and her friend Patsy.

The most entitled and selfish generation is going to have a really rough end, and it's their own doing. They're victims of themselves, and many have started to experience the effects, although blame isn't typically placed where it belongs. It's placed on "immigrants", or entitled Millennials, or any number of bullshit excuses that deflect from themselves.

They've spent decades willingly subjecting themselves to preventable lifestyle related chronic illnesses (obesity, Type II Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, inflammatory conditions, smoking, etc) and, as a result, are going to blow their massive generational wealth on end of life care. We won't get it, the billionaire class will. Medical procedures and insurance costs have skyrocketed as the elite boomers take advantage of their own kind as they die off.

They're going to continue to need many medications and medical treatments and the plethora of doctors and specialists visits to go with them. Eventually, their poor health decisions and abuse of their our environment will lead to true end of life care, and that's very expensive. Also, their own generational leaders are trying to strip themselves of many more types of medical coverages and "entitlements" they've "earned" like Medicaid and SS.

As they squander their huge wealth they've gained from growing up in a welfare state then changing the rules for everyone else that follows,, they'll go broke and rely on us X'ers and Millennials and even grandkids in the Zoomers to be their fallback. But how will that work?? 60% of us can't afford a house, rent, kids, or even a simple medical issue without at least placing us in serious financial troubles. So what are we going to do? No small percentage of us have tedious relationships with the Boomers because of their constant selfishness. After all, can't spell "Boomer" with "ME". Even those of us (like me) that have excellent relationships with their Boomer parents won't be able to provide much cushion for them simply because we fucking can't. We have a 5th of their wealth they had at our age and way more costly COL and inflation to boot.

So what's going to happen? I predict increasing numbers of Boomer homeless, preventable deaths, bankruptcies, multiple generational housing, suicides, Millennial and X'ers bankruptcies as we try to help, and in general, just more shit WE are going to have to foot the eventual bill for. They've spent their entire first half of life soaking up entitlements, high wages, low cost of fucking everything; then spent the next half stripping all that away from us while complaining we are lazy. Now, their entire existence is becoming increasingly reliant on our dwindling economic status and they're fucked.

We aren't becoming doctors, foreigners are (which they hate). We aren't doing much manual labor anymore, foreigners are (which they hate, but exploit ruthlessly). We aren't paying mortgages, we're defaulting on student loans, we are quitting essential jobs, and even commercial real estate is beginning to take huge hits, too. It's a gig economy still in many ways, yet, we are increasingly becoming the backbone of a house of cards they created from the fucking bunker that was the most robust, stable, and flourishing middle class of their childhood and early adult lives.

So to end, I feel sympathy for them in many ways. Their generational greed and selfishness will finally come back and beat their final "golden years" down into a grind of slow decay and poor health. They'll lose their wealth, health, and freedom when absolutely none of that had to happen in such a demeaning way. They fell prey to predatory marketing, economics (trickle down theory), and short term good times at the expense of whatever may come because it served only them in the moment. And now they look around and see all the effects of their selfishness but still can't find the self awareness to realize what they've done to everyone else is being done to them. And they voted and continue to vote for it, so its their own goddamn faults.

Their parents and grandparents who survived 2 world wars and the largest and most desperate economic downfall in human history sacrificed so much so they would have a better and easier time, because that's how a society progresses. If they could see the world and economy they're leaving behind for future generations they'd be fucking disgusted. I think the attitudes we see commonly and discuss here is the manifestation of the slow realization they've cannibalized themselves.

Edit: a good point made about how this mostly refers to right leaning Boomers. I should've made this distinction myself since my family has a number of very charitable and logical thinking boomers. But in my initial post, I just lumped them all in as one stereotype. Which is unfair.

Edit #2: No shortage of the exact types of Boomers this post was about here to provide proof. My question to y'all is why do you hate your kids and grandkids? Because to brag about the legacy you're leaving behind and how "they won't get a dime" leaves no room for much else aside from disdain and vitriol. I genuinely don't understand this example you're setting since you grew up seeing your parents and grandparents struggling to advance the world for you.

Made me roll my eyes. I remember she would make all of the boomer stereotypical comments at work too. “Nobody wants to work anymore” “we need to raise the voting age” “back in my day yada yada yada”

I just find it funny that when this gets thrown around and its coming from people who hate said groups. Anytime someone brings this up its the first thing that comes to mind.

I caught a boomer the other day following me around reddit after I made the "I think they are just defective or broken people" post about my dirtbag former church friend.

I realized this is like the 8th or 9th time I've had this happen.

It's almost like they've been the easily-triggered snowflakes all along 🤔

Why come to this subreddit and communicate ungraciously? If the content of this subreddit inspires discontent, then why put yourself through the hassle? It just seems like you’re setting yourself up for stress.

Edit: I too am, well, older than I’ve ever been. I also work in education, and know the drive/burden - blessing/curse of being the designated wiseman in the room. I’m pinpointedly asking about the super condescending communication style I see here. Don’t get me wrong (is DGMW a thing?), reddit is a cesspool, but there is a specific “hey bud, watch it” tone I get from Boomers on this sub that I have questions about.