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Lol, not entirely inaccurate. From the Wikipedia for Latchley kid

The term latchkey kid became commonplace in the 1970s and 1980s to describe members of Generation X who, according to a 2004 marketing study, "went through its all-important, formative years as one of the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history." Latchkey kids were prevalent during this time, a result of increased divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce at a time before childcare options outside the home were widely available.[6][7][8][9] These latchkey children, referred to as "day orphans" in the 1984 documentary, To Save Our Children to Save Our Schools, mainly came from middle or upper-class homes. The higher the educational attainment of the parents, the higher the odds the children of this time would be latchkey kids.[10][11]

Nowadays, if my mother was a black woman giving me the responsibilities she did, they would've arrested her ass.

Boomer is a state of mine.

You kids will one day be like this. You'll slowly find it creeping up on you in your older age, and eventually you wake up one day not understanding the young generation and you'll be thinking to yourself "Gosh, those darn kids and their perfidious pranks they play on us. But at least its a nice day to go outside and grill "

DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WAS NEGLECTED BY MY PARENTS I WAS BEATEN AS A CHILD AND I TURNED OUT FINE

is everyone in the west raised in an abusive home or what? at least millenials got participation trophies. that's probably the thing that saved them. until they discovered toast..

Yo what kind of fucking childhood did this freak have?

Perfect example of this mentality: the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, it's a fucking Gen X pride film about how boomers suck because they grew up before video game and we millenials suck too because our video games are bullshit but Gen X are the baddest dudes who ever lived because they played Pac-Man and Donkey Kong

I'm not even exaggerating, that's the whole movie

I hope they know everyone under 35 lumps gen x and boomers as almost the same people

They’re genuinely the most forgettable gen (after silents). No one but gen xers think of gen xers as tough. Emotionally unavailable people that need therapy, maybe, but that doesn’t make you tough

The vast majority of Gen X men I've met have been borderline dysfunctional. I've never seen a gen X dude make a decent meal from scratch without fucking up.

Gen Xers have had the absolute strangest brainworms about gender, prescribing strict gender codes for other men, while being completely unable to live up to their own standards.

Most Gen X men are useless in the kitchen, helpless in raising their own children and too self absorbed to notice the absolute state of themselves.

Does Gen X realize that Millenials were brought up the same way?

Like holy shit dawg we had the same neglectful parents. No need to brag.

Your brain really does turn to mush over a certain age, huh?

Is Gen X the one that lives with the bald wheelchair guy in the mansion and they fight magnet man

Personally, I find the whole being a flag bearer for an age cohort thing to be very hokey and needlessly distracting from the actual class warfare that we are constantly losing to the capitalist class.

For a bunch of people that commend the rough 'n tough lifestyle, why prevent walkable cities that teach independence at such an early age AND reduce reliance on technology?

The only thing that I'm impressed with myself over the youth is that for a brief time we somehow found the people we were going to meet at an event without sending signals into space to send messages to transponders to find each other, everything else about being gen x sucks and we lost that ability.

Drinking leaded water out of the garden hose. Can’t imagine what happened to their brains

This sounds like parody. Formally trained in something by the time they were 2???

Anyway all Gen X'ers are gonna do is sing Smells Like Teen Spirit and be sad in the corner

Gen X was the original

This might as well be their signature copypasta.

They also fought an evil telekinetic test tube baby trapped in an alternate dimension with their group of friends in a small town in Iowa.

Why would that be on a millenial's post? Why not a gen x post?

Where did the whole "we drank water from a garden hose and lived" thing start? Almost every boomer meme mentions it.

I see people (younguns and myself included) drinking from garden hoses all the time. How did it become a badge of virtue for boomers/genX?