When did the world become pussified?

[Speaker to Animals]

Are you insinuating I'm part of generation zir?

You are a millennial, I thought. You probably are not young enough to be generation Z, and I bet a worthless Dan Carlin Buck both your parents were boomers.

[TheReal_ND]

Nah. I'll take that buck though. Parents were young dude.

[Calculus Man]

I think the ball started rolling with columbine. I think we underestimate the effects Columbine had on society. Every parent instantly became terrified their kids would be killed at school, and there wasn't anything they could do to stop it. So anytime a kid comes home with hurt feels, the parent snaps into action and takes matters into their own hands. Subconsciously they think "well I can't do anything if a guy comes at my son with a gun at school. But I can sure as hell call the principal every time someone makes fun of him." Have a generation of kids grow up with the idea that "someone hurt my feels, authorities should be involved" and we get safe spaces and unicorns.

Columbine... yeah. Excellent observation.

Yep. Bullied kids shoot up schools, leading to a pathological obsession with stamping out bullying. Everyone's intentions are so good, so why stop to think about the positive effects of bullying?

I was bullied fairly often as a kid. Lightly, but still. Goes with the territory of being a skinny nerdy minority I guess.

Here's the thing, though...being bullied made me a better person. I had to learn real quick that I would never be the most physically imposing man in room. Once I figured that out, I realized that I needed to become awesome in other ways, or the pretty girls would never want to fuck me.

Someone could do a really interesting podcast or book on the positive effects of bullying.

[Speaker to Animals]

[*]Gen Z, iGen, or Centennials: Born 1996 and later
[*]Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 to 1995
[*]Generation X: Born 1965 to 1976
[*]Baby Boomers: Born 1946 to 1964
[*]Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before

Gen X were just becoming adults when millennials were first born. The oldest Gen Xer in 1977 was 12 years old. The boomers in 1977 ranged from age 13 to age 31.

Millennials are a boomer production.


Gen Z began in 1996. We were age 20 to age 31 when Gen Z was first being born. Those are our kids.

Keep your poison harvest to yourselves.

[TheReal_ND]

They are always playing with the numbers. You can find conflicting results nice cherry picking. Not how my parents identified anyway. Call them a boomer they would laugh you off. Boomers weren't going to guns and roses concerts while in high school.

[TheReal_ND]

Anyway those numbers don't even conflict anyway. So stop calling my parents boomers or I'll fuck you up.

[Speaker to Animals]

They are always playing with the numbers. You can find conflicting results nice cherry picking. Not how my parents identified anyway. Call them a boomer they would laugh you off. Boomers weren't going to guns and roses concerts while in high school.

Not really. These numbers have been fixed for a while. There is disagreement about the borders, but the events and characteristics of the generations are pretty well known and observed.

Unless your parents were relatively old when they conceived you, they almost certainly were boomers. You are a millennial, after all. Millennial and boomer generations are their own generational bloodline, with Silent/GenX/GenZ as the other bloodline.

Just look at the differences between those two groups. Boomers and Millennials are all about getting in people's faces and trying to change the world. Gen X and Gen Z are pessimistic.

[TheReal_ND]

Nah. Not boomers. Your numbers are fine. 18 and 16 btw

[Speaker to Animals]

Nah. Not boomers. Your numbers are fine.

Then I guess they could have been Gen X teens who got pregnant after the Homecoming dance? When were you born?

[TheReal_ND]

I was born whenever the fuck I wanted to be borne.