I like to respond,“go vote, millenial”. Not much point in complaining about things if you don’t vote to change them. I don’t use the response to Gen Z, though, since few can vote yet.
Each generation has thought the previous one has screwed up for many generations now. The latest generation will be equally bashed by the next one, no doubt about it.
Bliss your heart!!! Thank goodness my kids don’t feel the same.
@romanigypsyeyes got it perfectly right.
And honestly, most of the time I’ve seen someone get hit with an “Ok Boomer” they’ve totally deserved it.
(Yes, even when it’s been used at me.)
I agree. I’m a Gen X’er, much closer to the Boomer side age-wise, but I am so sick of the Millennials getting bashed. I know so many amazing ones.
I don’t mind OK Boomer. It confirms my belief that human nature doesn’t change.
Political postings on social media and their replies are usually rude and insulting, rather than attempts to have constructive dialog, just like politics in general these days.
I think that insulting someone based what generation they were born in (whether boomer or millenial) is ridiculous and condescending. I don’t care if people are responding in kind, it’s rude. If you’re trying to insult and offend one person, then go at it against that one person, not an entire generation. Generalizing people based upon their age, and therefore it’s that generations fault that A, B or C happened and my life is screwed up, is completely ignorant.
Though in full disclosure, I have to say it is my millenial childrens fault that my thighs and stomach will never be like they used to be. :neutral: But I’m not going to blame it on the entire generation.
LOL on your ending. Applause on your beginning paragraph!
I must live in a bubble. Where is all this millennial bashing occurring? I don’t see it. Is it on Facebook? Other social media? Interaction with coworkers? I’d genuinely like to know.
I have seen lots of boomer bashing though.
I wonder if all this generational animosity is being stirred up by foreign bots.
I could not agree with @Joblue or @romanigypsyeyes more. I am in my mid 50s but the millennial bashing has gotten out of hand, imo. It’s human nature to criticize the younger generations. I get that. But the criticisms I hear about millennials day in and day out is completely over the top and unwarranted. Denigrating them relentlessly for the way they choose to cope with the world handed to them by GenXers and Boomers is just dismissive and unaware (imo). Hence, I’m glad that retort got so much play. A bit of understanding, then, about the frustration behind “OK Boomer” might be warranted.
@ Romani wrote:
Is the current economy the crap one you’re referencing or some other crap economy?
The funniest response I’ve seen to “OK, Boomer” was, “Sure thing, snowflake!”.
DH and I graduated into a crap economy in 1986, too. We sent out almost 300 resumes by snail mail. Got about five responses, most of them saying, “You don’t want to work here!” We got one interview in Albuquerque and one in Portland - that was it, after many months. The New Mexico job offer was VERY low. Maine wasn’t much better, but the two of us moved 2,500 miles to work for the same company in Portland. Then we were both laid off the same day, four years later, four months before we would have been vested in the company retirement plan. We stood in unemployment lines and even went to a food pantry a few times. 6 years after I got my master’s degree in engineering, I was making less than I did when I first graduated. So we boomers didn’t all have it so easy. 
That’s why we decided to work for ourselves, because we knew we couldn’t rely on anyone else.
How about do you mean “ok mom” or “ok dad”.
I just respond that I hope they are enjoying their boomer I-phone and internet. Yeah the old foggies who gave them thst. Lol.
I could see this coming from gen z. But fully adult and professional age men and women?
I’m gen x myself. However it’s a “mentality” not an age group is nonsense. What mentality is that- the same one they hope to have working on them to help save their lives when a serious illness strikes or educated them in their respective fields?
I don’t remember these types of taunts for the greatest generation. But I missed the Woodstock and hippie movements.
@musicmom… the economy is great for genXers or anyone with significant investments. For millennials trying to pay off ridiculous loans we all didn’t have to take out just for public school educations, or pay rent for a decent apartment with wages that have not kept up with inflation and that likely don’t include the kind of benefits all of us 50 somethings and older took for granted, not so much.
@musicmom I’m referring to the one that many of us graduated into in the late 00s.
Kids who are graduating into the economy today are NOT millenials. That was another one of my points. The absolute youngest millenials are 23 (born in 96). Most of us are in our 30s.
I am on the young end of millenials. I graduated high school in 09. The economy tanked at the end of my high school career. Friends lost their entire college savings accounts, faced evictions, faced parental layoffs, etc etc. So we went to college, without money because what else were you going to do? There were no jobs for us - at the same time that tuition was skyrocketing. Oh and why was it skyrocketing? Oh I don’t know. Maybe the massive slashes in funding. Maybe the fact that boomer politicians were limiting aid.
Want to hear something hilarious? When I graduated, I had a scholarship through the state called the “Michigan promise” grant. It was promised for four years. Most of us who started in 09 received maybe a semester of very limited funds and then the government refused to fund it again. Nice promise.
Further, this economy sucks. Yeah, unemployment is low but you know what else is incredibly low? Wages. You know what is incredibly high? Underemployment. Do you know how many millenials are working multiple jobs to survive? Participating in the forced gig economy just to stay above water?
You know the number one reason millenials are delaying home ownership, having children, etc? Student debt. Followed closely by low wages.
Who straddle us with that? Boomers. Boomers did. And when we demand student loan reform and higher wages, boomers call us lazy and entitled. Gee, I would’ve LOVED to get a college degree in the 70s and 80s while working part time at a mcdonalds. Instead, I worked full time at a non-minimum wage job and still came out with some 20k in debt. ON TOP OF federal aid and private scholarships.
Oh and we know who Gen-Xers are. We know who boomers are. We know that not everyone older than us is a boomer. It’s a specific phrase for a specific demographic.
So yeah, you’ll excuse me if I’m not appreciative enough of the fact that boomers gave me a smart phone. I’d gladly trade my smart phone for the tens of thousands in student debt that I have, the artificially suppressed wages, the rollbacks on environmental protections, the rollback on worker protections, the rollback on women’s reproductive rights. But yeah. Thanks for the smartphone, boomer even though most of us didn’t get smartphones until we were adults paying for them ourselves because smartphones didn’t exist until most of us were in college or beyond because we’re millenials, not Gen Z.
I had student loans and lived with five friends in a crap apartment
on a futon for two years. We had zero money for entertainment. This was the 90s. I do t recall blaming my parents. I just don’t.
I guess that makes me an honorary boomer. lol.
@privatebanker Most of us have life-was-so-hard stories like that from our early and mid 20s. Built character, right? But very few of us still had to live like that by the time we hit our early or mid 30s.
As a gen x er I will just give my stereotypical response: boo hoo everyone ignoring my generation again! We don’t even get an insult…