Civil Rights?

Women's Liberation?

Gay Rights?

And end to unjust wars...like Vietnam (and *cough* Iraq)

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From where I stand, I don't see all that much "progress" which you, GreenEyedkzin and others claim in your wonderful Boomer accomplishments.

The sexism, racism, homophobia et al that y'all fought so hard to eradicate was later embraced in more politically correct forms by you and/or your peers...

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I guess it's all perception, isn't it?

You all see the kids as screwed up 'n' doomed, and yourselves as shining examples of humanity...

And I? Frankly, I just see a bunch of sellouts living in McMansions.

And despite your fears (or jealous, passive-aggressive desires?) - the Kids Are Gonna be Alright.

We may not succeed in saving the world - but we sure as balls ain't gonna stop trying just to earn a middle-management corner office at age 30, y'know?

These boomers were all supposedly so enlightened...

and yet they mercilessly slagged us Gen-Xers as slackers, over-medicated, yada yada yada...

and now we have "rorshach" and company telling us about these 17-27 year olds being "doomed"....

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From my work, I know quite a few Gen Ys and Millenials.

And the kids, by and large, are just fine.

They impress me with voluntary altruism and solid work ethics.

And I have no qualms calling these self-righteous Boomer-mudgeons on their bullshit condemnations of them. That's where I'm coming from.

I do not actually see myself as an idealist, but more of a brutal realist.

And in a more measured response, I could find myself giving boomers credit for what they (at least tried to achieve).

It is the betrayal of those ideals by so many (yes, not all - but SO MANY) of the Boomer Generation that disappoints me...

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All the same, thank you for your insightful, measured reply.

I mean, sure, I good-naturedly jest with my 19 y.o. nephew & his pals about their music versus mine...

But really: how different is Hannah Montana from Tiffany, circa '89?

Yeah, we Gen-Xers had Nirvana, the Pixies, GNR...but we also had Bon Jovi & Poison, which frankly = Nickelback & Hinder. =)

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On a serious tone, I just hope that at some point this pervasive "You young 'uns are good-fer-nuthin" attitude from older generations gets shattered at some point. I'd hate to be 49 and yellin' at teenagers whizzing by in their fuel-cell flying Mustangs & Civics...

LOL (that means 'laugh out loud') at the accusation of ageism.

This all started because one of your boomer peers - rorschach - showed his OWN ageist bigotry by condemning kids as "doomed" because he had a bad experience - as a 49 year-old - with some 17-27 y.o. "kids".

I called him on his self-righteous attitude. Based on my own experiences, I defended the kids who you old folk so love to scorn & despise at being good-fer-nothin'. Nuff said.

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@ AKA Smith: a question. Why is it ageism when a younger person dares to critique an older generation...but NOT ageism in the case of vice versa, when an old curmedgeon condemns and judges all youth to be hellions the way "rorschach" did?

Hypocrisy, much?

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@ Greeneyedkzin: I'm sorry that your past experiences with men/people have made you, well...you. I never said I wanted you to die and get off this planet.

I simply wished for/ reveled in the fact that all the self-adulatin' Boomers were gonna be shepherded from their positions of power - where they have wreaked havoc - into nursing homes, leaving us Gen X-ers to finally get our own chance to fix things.

Let's just say that the PC cops convinced / forced everyone to use the term "developmentally challenged" instead.

Do you know what would happen?

Little kids on playgrounds across the world would start using "developmentally challenged"...or probably some convenient contraction like "DC"...to insult each other.

As in, "Stan, are ya just dumb, or are you DC'd?"

In other words, the negative association of the term - the idea that being equated with a mentally-retarded person is an insult - WOULD BE RETAINED.

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This is what the PC police just don't get. You are NOT changing thoughts or opinions, people.

You're just toying with language.

I await the day (if it has not occurred yet) when a Grand Wizard of the KKK talks about the need to 'get rid of all those African-Americans, boy howdy!'

=)

Because the Rock (while not a very good actor) always beats scissors! Ha!

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The best take on this game, ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqIitlAx7uE

;-)

Brilliant! The bar could do "Tightey-Whitey Thursdays"!

Free drinks for your jockey-shorts (although I think the ladies would abscond to another pub upon first sight of skid marks, LMAO...)

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Ahhh, there are few things in our lives more deserving of ridicule than tightey-whiteys - whether they be men's underwear, OR Bill O'Reilly and Newt Gingrich.

=)

...must first swear an oath to never ever deviate from the path of true tolerance

Isn't that what Christo-Republikkkan fundie parents do to their adolescent children when they learn that the kid is gay or bi?

Just substitute intolerance for tolerance in your statement above; usually, these Republican mommies & daddies proceed to kick their 16 y.o. out onto the streets because they refuse to go to Xtian "straight camps" to get cured of teh gay...

Their message is often loud and clear: "Swear an oath never to deviate from heterosexuality - or you are no longer our son/daughter."

Pot, meet kettle.

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I'd feed you more, dear troll - but I'm sure you have a Westboro Baptist Church rally to attend with your apostle, Rev. Fred Phelps...