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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 07:40 PM
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What stereotypes of boomers are you sick of hearing?
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Edited on Mon May-02-05 08:30 PM by CBHagman
Oh, dear. I just flew into a rage after reading a few posts claiming that we boomers A) got everything handed to us on a silver platter and B) merrily screwed up the world, leaving a disaster to the poor, heartbroken upcoming generations. :eyes:

While I'm warming to the subject, I mustn't forget that some in the media appear to believe we boomers A) invented premarital sex and B) teenaged pregnancy and C) drug abuse and D) coarsening of the culture. :eyes:

Ahem. I had no idea I'd be leading such a life, nor that I had such power, nor that the people who surrounded me growing up were such pampered little souls.

So unload your beefs here, please. I'm dying to hear them (perhaps literally).
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  -What stereotypes of boomers are you sick of hearing? CBHagman  May-02-05 07:40 PM   #0 
  - Yeah, we boomers really screwed things up.  Imalittleteapot   May-02-05 08:43 PM   #1 
  - I know. People act as though pensions...  CBHagman   May-02-05 09:08 PM   #2 
  - of course the opposite is true  shanti   Nov-20-05 10:27 PM   #15 
  - I resent the attitude that we don't know when to quit and let the younger  Longhorn   May-02-05 09:24 PM   #3 
  - David Broder, of all people, has that attitude.  CBHagman   May-02-05 09:31 PM   #4 
  - That we were all hippies who hypocritically turned into yuppies  Lydia Leftcoast   May-02-05 11:23 PM   #5 
  - LOL, I was too young to be a true hippie  SW FL Dem   May-02-05 11:39 PM   #6 
  - Both those things you said,  raccoon   Jun-02-05 01:30 PM   #7 
  - About the spoiled bit...  CBHagman   Jun-02-05 05:25 PM   #8 
     - Similar to my experience  raccoon   Jun-03-05 08:23 AM   #9 
     - Two parents and 3+ kids in a 1000 square foot house  spooky3   Dec-18-05 05:19 PM   #17 
  - That we are practically dead at 50.  fortyfeetunder   Jun-05-05 01:28 PM   #10 
  - My professors at university were MOST productive in the 50s  CBHagman   Jun-05-05 10:09 PM   #11 
  - hhhmmmmm,very interesting  libodem   Jun-25-05 06:03 PM   #12 
  - That we were all rich and that we are all rich....  ruthg   Nov-09-05 04:27 PM   #13 
  - We weren't all hippies  Lowell   Nov-16-05 12:21 PM   #14 
  - A hero and a zero in today's battle of the boomer stereotypes.  CBHagman   Nov-29-05 09:03 AM   #16 
  - The Ultra Rich always have to blame  Acryliccalico   Dec-29-05 10:54 AM   #18 
  - Good point.  CBHagman   Jan-05-06 09:14 AM   #19 
  - Memo from Robert Samuelson: We boomers are "selfish."  CBHagman   Jan-10-07 12:06 PM   #20 
  - You hear it on DU too. I guess it's still OK to stereotype a whole generation,  raccoon   Oct-14-08 10:54 AM   #21 
  - Someone on DU equated Boomers with the "Me" Generation.  votesomemore   Jan-30-09 12:48 AM   #22 
  - Well, I don't know what you expect from young DUers - they are shallow  old mark   May-10-09 09:03 AM   #23 
  - Hippies' stereotype of being dirty, lazy, always on drugs  MzNov   Jun-07-09 03:40 PM   #24 
  - We're hogging all the good jobs  LiberalEsto   Jun-07-09 04:43 PM   #25 
     - No better example of this than in CA  MzNov   Jun-07-09 05:29 PM   #26 
     - And don't forget the ever-popular...  CBHagman   Jul-11-09 06:19 PM   #27 
 

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