Gen X As Punching Bag: Why The Internet Is Beating Up On The Most Overlooked and Underestimated Generation
About this episode
The episode discusses the cultural misunderstandings and unfair criticisms faced by Gen Xers.
In today's PCPS Light episode, we three proud Gen Xers try to have a quick, refreshing conversation about an emerging trend in our culture; but it's hard to be brief when you feel unfairly attacked. Especially when the attacks seem to originate from extreme misunderstandings about who Gen Xers are and how they got this way. Perhaps this is because Gen Xers don't share much about the unique circumstances of their unsupervised childhoods. We're just not complainers or finger pointers. WHY? Because no one is home and you've let yourself into the house with the key around your neck and you're going to heat up some Spaghettios for dinner and it's FINE. We're all FINE. What's to tell? As a result, younger generations seem to have us mixed up with Boomers (WHAT?!). No disrespect to young Boomers but those elder Boomers (plus Silent Gen) are the ones who made us latchkey kids in the first place! Sometimes our Boomer/Silent parents were busy putting food on the table and keeping a roof overhead and sometimes they were busy with Jazzercise but, either way, Gen Xers figured it out and grew up to be helicopter parents. Coincidence? HA! Join us today for an exploration of what the F is…
People in this episode
Host: PCPS
Topics covered
- Gen X
- cultural trends
- misunderstandings
- parenting
- childhood experiences
Keywords
- Gen X
- cultural criticism
- parenting styles
- childhood
- misunderstanding
Sponsors
Remind Magazine, bookshop.org
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: PCPS
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