#gen-x — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gen-x, aggregated by home.social.
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Goody combs.
A must have for the well-heeled gentleman at Jane Addams Junior High School, circa 1979.
Mine was red, though.
Bright red.
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I’m Not a Conspiracy Guy, But……
I don’t really have one specific conspiracy theory that I completely believe. I’m not sitting around with a corkboard covered in red string, photographs, and newspaper clippings trying to figure out who secretly controls the weather. I have a life. And honestly, that sounds exhausting. But
#Conspiracy #dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2857 #GenX #Government #Lie #Skeptic
To read and see the whole post, click below:
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Surly grocery bagger looks about 15, with bleach blond spikes, black eyeliner and a heavy stainless chain
me: Dancing with yourself, Billy Idol?
bagger: ok boomer
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Speaking of less toxic masculinity trends of the 90s, one of the most-played radio songs by Pearl Jam was Better Man, also one of the many feminist tracks of the era.
As a recently-divorced single mom, this song — along with others like Birmingham, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone, Furious Rose, everything by Tori Amos — spoke to my situation: how I was supposed to find a husband, yet there didn't seem to be anyone who wasn't some level of asshole, at least not that would be into me. But it wasn't just women writing feminist music depicting women's problems emphatically.
It's been awhile (ha!) but I'm watching a reaction video that's brought it all back.
More to my thesis that activism took a very different role for GenX. It was a shift in culture rather than politics. I took for granted songs like these and the messages and warnings they shared with young women to help us interpret our lived experiences in new ways. My mother never had a song like this.
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Fun fact: Our hotel is in front of the very port that Gilligan & the crew of the S.S. Minnow departed for a 3hr tour before being shipwrecked for years on an uncharted isle.
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I get really irritated when I see some video or meme where GenX is completely forgotten or ignored as if we didn’t exist. It’s fucking insulting and dismissive. Then I remember that I don’t give a fuck, and it ALL makes sense, ‘cause your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance, then they’re no friends of mine.
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Don’t bother asking #GenX. Nobody did before. No need to start now. Whatever.
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Don’t bother asking #GenX. Nobody did before. No need to start now. Whatever.
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Mom, about a month ago: Why are you watering a dead stick?!?
Me: It's not dead. It's still alive & I'm going to bring it back to full vibrant life 😃
Mom: It looks dead!
Me: It's not. We don't look as good on some days either. Doesn't mean we are dead.
Mom: *awkward silence for almost a minute* Maybe you're right.
Me: You'll see how right I am.
*fast forward 1.5 months later*
Mom: You were right.
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I'm also sowing more flowers in our partial darksides of backyard/mostly shady areas.
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Guess what? This week's poll broke our record for total number of votes. The previous record was 273. Thanks to everyone who has participated and contributed ideas over the past 3+ years.
Let's keep it going!
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I clearly clicked on the wrong link and suddenly my YouTube feed is filled with 50+ men talking about life as GenX, and how to think about it. There seems to be a whole subculture of this. Who knew? I thought the whole point was none of us cared and no one talked about it.
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RE: https://mas.to/@bascule/117090284359357490
🗣YOU’RE WELCOME!
signed,
#GenX mom of two #zillennialsps: a lot of us GenX women who didn't embrace yuppie #feminism were called losers, sold outs, quitters. many of us lost careers to motherhood.
and this was not just in right-wing corporate settings. i had a “model minority” reject me for a position in a “progressive” non-profit because, “how can you give us 110% when you have two kids”.
zilennial #socialism is the finding out after fucking around a whole generation of GenX moms.
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I'm online often but also take a lot of unplugged breaks because it's not healthy for me(or many others) to be online all the time. I have a pretty full offline life. I invest time in that because it's really important to my well-being to have a balanced offline life. The community work stuff that I regularly volunteer with also require in person presence, within/around the community that I live in/share with others.
Covid impacted & still impacts who I choose to be around, offline. I don't hang out or do much community work with folks who don't understand or respect why me & my immediate family won't stop masking up. -
FYI: The ONLY reason the #middleclass came into existence was to keep #communism at bay! #placation101
https://mastodon.world/@somecanuckchick/117088968892678693
#capitalism #capitalismFAIL #socialism101 #socialism #capitalismBS #redscare #fauxredscare #coldwarpartdeux #generationjones #genx #geny #millennials #genz #generationwars #boomers #babyboomers
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FFS EVERY GENERATION has lost faith in #capitalism.
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/generation-z-precarity-inequality-class-capitalism #generationjones #genx #geny #millennials #genz #generationwars #boomers #babyboomers
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Do you know this song? #GenX
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And honestly, since the piece compares us to hippie boomers, I'd like to point out that they didn't "drop out" either. They sold out, too.
I listen to a fair amount of 60s music as well. GenX grew up listening to 60s music because that's just how things worked back then, and I still listen to 60s folk and classic rock.
And I gotta say, it was a LOT of empty idealism without much substance behind it. Often not even a lot of truth-telling, though that was starting, too.
Dylan didn't just ask the question like we did, he *answers* it, with definitive helplessness: "The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind." He, the leader of the musical movement of a civil rights moment, was *giving up* in the language of his gentle lilt.
The subject header blames X for the division, that we "opposed" whatever was going on in the 60s. But maybe instead we absorbed 60s pop culture's complete lack of answers, we saw how that hopeful lack of answers failed to change anything ("How's that hopey-changey going?"), and like we were about to do, hippies sold out and went back to work for the man. That contributed quite a bit to our cynicism!
The author says we didn't "drop out," but I'd definitely say we were forced to "check out." Whatever, close your eyes, grit your teeth, listen to Rage Against the Machine (I wonder if the author quotes them at all?) while you do the dishes, and get to work to feed your family.
Ok no for reals I'm letting go of this bone now! 😂
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And while my autistic brain struggles to let go of the rant and ground my energies, let me link my playlist of songs that back my overall thesis of what GenX's major social justice lifting was about:
Telling the truths that previous generations weren't allowed to. (See Hayes Code and other forms of censorship.)
The 90s broke down a wall of pluralistic ignorance. We were the opening of the AA meeting where we admitted we had a problem. We took a fearless moral inventory. Often without making any value judgements, often mistaken for edginess for its own sake. But we had to open up about the problem before we could understand it. Before it could be solved.
These are not cherrypicked deep tracks. Most of these songs were played regularly on the radio, or are at least by popular artists, and would have been heard by (and influenced) most American/Anglosphere mid-GenX and older millennials.
We were far from idle. This work should not be forgotten.
(This list is also on Spotify if you search, but I don't currently maintain it there.)
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/genxpose/pl.u-WabZljPCdmK84r
