"Don't dream it. Be it." -Rocky Horror I don't like to show myself on camera, so if you want to see what I look like, well, I'm sorry! I am an aspiring author and mom to two grown kids. I have quite a bit of time on my hands for "reasons" and I write and record content to keep busy. I still have a few ideas for this channel that I have yet to bring to fruition. In addition to the movie and book reviews, continuous updates on my book revisions, etc., I want to eventually show up on camera! Yeah! I wanna make that leap one day! I've started putting a DONATION link in the description of my videos. To help me out and support the channel, please click on it, and thank you in advance! The only reason I did it is because I figured it couldn't hurt to ask for help. Anyway, thanks for sticking around! I'm looking to start a fan base and you guys could help with the name of that base. The Slackers? The Latch Keys? What will we be called? Who knows?
The ones who called us slackers were the Boomers lol.... ahh the Boomers.... anyway.. every other generation thinks badly of every other generation(always jumping 1 in between)... I don't care lol. They should just wait until it's their time to be the generation we are in... it's bound to happen that their descendants will find faults with them... they are lucky we don't care enough to go Boomer on them... and I take some responsibility on why the generation we gave birth too are as weak as they are! lol.. Trying to make things easier for your kids may backfire! lol.
As a Gen X I will testify the main reason I don't care is cuz I was not only forgotten, told to don't bother the Boomers (which I call the Me Me ME generation) but somehow Millenials were allowed to scream as if they were being murdered (I didn't allow MY kids to do that but so many of my fellow GXers did which is insane to me - my kids were allowed to speak etc but always told them NOT to scream like that unless they were being kidnapped, on fire, or being murdered). Now kids have no problem walking into YOUR garage, asking to ride scooters, ask for lighters, basically scoping your place out - so the Millenials failed by not teaching their kids about property rights...just another reason for GXers to not care!
The entitlement that some people in the younger generations have drives me batty. Lots of them are respectful because they were raised right. But so many of them are over-entitled jerks, and I can't stand it!
@@Gen_X_Rosey Honestly, the entitlement of Boomers (which as a kid I called the Me Me Me generation) drives me batty - that on top of what they allowed this country to become, having no care about our safety as kids (just keep quiet & stay out of their way), etc. And don't get me started on the Gen X grifters.... Great vids BTW, I have no idea how I stumbled upon your channel but I'm glad I did - you got a new sub!
We see the World turning into one Big Asylum and do not see ourselves as one of the inmates, but rather a visitor who can't wait to get home to our small slice of normality.
Gen Xr of 67 here. Speaking ONLY MY OPINION (because we are the most Feral and Independent Gen EVER!!!) Gen X sees it as mind over matter. _Gen X doesn't mind, and you (other Gens) don't matter._ _"We're fine! Now leave us alone!"_ Eric Cartman
As far as this notion of 'letting us off the hook'. I don't know what that's referring to, unless maybe the griping about the 'Boomers' and maybe somebody posed the question "aren't those guys just as bad?". Well I have found that for the most part, in my experience, everyone after us were only taught of the 'Boomers' and themselves. Most of them have never heard of Gen X and think we are all Boomers. I'm not sure Gen Z even knows of the Millennials. They have been the most manipulated and indoctrinated generation ever and taught nothing but globalist, leftist, propaganda all their lives. There is another element that I think plays into this, perhaps. Unlike the Boomers before us, that were a noisy and obnoxious generation of self important activists that have received enormous attention for their contributions to the culture and history, WE have been the opposite not really attracting attention to ourselves and preferring a more stealthy grey man profile. Most of us don't think we are something special or that others should care about our opinions. We don't expect others to care about our opinions and largely because we often don't care much about others' opinions either. It's not about being rude or disrespectful. It's about a humbleness of not thinking others should care or make a big deal over anything we think or do. Everyone's got an opinion, and none are more or less valuable than our own. We are a bit like another silent generation.
Honestly I don't really relate to much of this talk I am hearing now about us. Why is anyone suggesting we 'don't care'? Care about what? We care about the same stuff every other generation has, except the generations AFTER us. I see us as mostly very similar to generations before us. The only difference is the divide after our generation. There's the world up until the Millennials and the world of them and beyond. Or I could simply state it as pre and post 21st century. We aren't that much different from everybody before us, but after us? Yeah I can't relate to these guys at all.
Care about ANYTHING. About what's going on in the world today. What people might think or say about us? How people might feel about us. They don't think we care about much of anything. What I was trying to get across is that our generation has seen too much and the system was set up to fail, and since nobody listened to us when we were coming up and trying to tell them how to make things better, we just slipped into the shadows and decided to live our lives the best we could in a failing world.
That white baby's room with the security camera above the crib is so dystopian. Imagine the baby who grows up seeing that soulless black sphere more than mama's face, a stuffed animal, or their favorite toy. Colors are so important for learning and development for kids under 12. That colorless nursery mobile in the lower left isn't likely to engage the curiosity of a baby. A child's room, or festive holiday decorations, shouldn't be done in neutral office colors.
I completely agree! When I was a young mother, I did everything I could to fill my babies' lives with as much color and life as possible! I honestly don't get this weird obsession with white, beige, and neutral, dead colors. It's so strange. Like, WHY?! Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
I’m a zoomer and I didn’t fall for it, I’ve been chilling on the sidelines laughing about all this with my friends. I think it’s safe to say the majority of zoomers don’t fall for it, but the ones who do are just the loudest.
Awesome! You're more like the Zoomers I've raised. Because I was just sitting back eating popcorn watching Millennials arguing with Boomers. Most of us didn't care about the Generation Wars when we were just talking about the cartoons we watched, Watching videos on MTV, and the lack of parental supervision we had.
Please go on. Or at least explain. We genx learned a lot of harsh realities at a very young age, and that we were on our own. What do you mean when you say a generation that grew up without social media is delusional, but those that with it are based in reality? Genx has a lot to fight for. Please tell me what you believe your generation is fighting for.
The more I thought about this comment, the more I had to re-think my last comment and delete it. If you're referring to the Xers on TikTok who like to do the "We are not the same" videos or show Zoomers trying to use Gen X (or in some cases Boomer) era stuff and not knowing what to do with it - basically to try presenting you as incompetent, then I have to agree. I have made a video or two where I actually have called out Gen X (yep, I call out my generation) for making fun of their own kids. So, you're right, kids usually follow the example of the people who raised them. In this case, younger Boomers, Gen X, Xennials, and a few Millennials.
Some Zoomers did. Gen X was also confused as to why so many Gen Z were calling us out when we were just chillin' on the internet talking about how we grew up and reliving the fun we had.
@@Gen_X_Rosey I thought the Gen X thing started from Houdini by Eminem. Generations arent really a good way to lump people together anyway. I enjoy the same music as my dad who is gen X and I play video games like Gen Z and Millenials
@@aurorabora7557 No, it started much sooner than that, love. The fact that you enjoy the same music as your dad proves you were raised right. My kids love the same genres that I love and they've gotten me into K-Pop and even J-Rock/Visual Kei. As much as Gen Z is different from us, you share a lot of common ground with us too, which is something else I'd like to point out in a video. You just keep being you, babe.
So true Rosey great points!!! Proud Gen-x subscriber here and idgaf about the things that are life shattering to the younger generations who have no respect for us and where we are coming from.
Just like the unknown "chemical X" that makes up the Power Puff Girls, no one knows about Gen X unless we let you know. WE decide who WE care to let know us, PERIOD!
As a gen Xer we aren't the forgotten generation we are the sleeping giant generation and if you polk us with a stick, I guarantee you will regret it immediately!😊😡💀
All I know the Chaos NEEDS TO STOP ALL THESE LIARS CLOWNS ARE POACHING ON LIFE. SERIOUSLY THE CHAOS NEEDS TO TAKE A BACK SEAT Y'ALL!!! SERIOUSLY WAITING TO GRAB OUR LAWN CHAIRS AND WATCHING THE APOCALYPSE TO HAPPEN!!
Yes, Gen Z and Alpha are a softer generation because there is a percentage of Gen X who are raised and are raising them sheltered and giving them everything. Obviously, It's to each his and her own family. I fully intend to teach my nephews to be respectful and that they must have inner endurance. Cause in their lifetimes as a Generation group they are going to see and experience events as a group like all other Generations have.
We care about life and people both family and those outside of our families. We care a lot. We just don't care about the REPEAT of things. We need solutions to problems not to repeat the same old problems generation after generation.
Honesty, I'm done with the work force. I still work. However, we all know its best to do work brings out your skills, talents and abilities. We know politics is a joke. Some of us Gen Xere are in Congress. Congrats for them. I assume some have worked to make life easier for us.
We Gen Xere have been through a lot of traumatic events and experiences both personally and as a group. The GOD of the Bible or whatsoever faith you hold to has seen you through until this day.
Hard times make strong people….strong people make easy times….easy times make soft people. Our times made us stone then we made their times easier but it made them snowflakes.
It's creepy when you come across a Facebook or social media profile that hasn't been updated in years because the person is in prison or has passed away.
It was disturbing! And he still had people who supported him. Saying crap like, "This too shall pass!" It makes me wonder if they knew what he did or did they not care? Craziness. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Saw a video calling gen x are terrible grandparents for not babysitting our grandchildren every weekend or something. I was thinking to myself; most of us raised ourselves, took care of our brothers and sisters, in some cases our cousins, raised our kids, and in some cases our nephews and nieces. We still have to work as well. They need to raise there own kids. When is it our time? Great list of things we saw growing up. Don't forget about aides epidemic, crack epidemic, street gangs, the threat of nuclear war with Russia. Oh and our crazy uncles back from Vietnam. We've lived through a lot.
Yes, you are so right! I had to watch over cousins, some of my mom's friends, and yep, myself. I have yet to meet a single grandparent from even the Silent Generation who wanted to watch their grandkids EVERY weekend. They'd better take their kids to the waterpark or the zoo, have a Coke and a smile, and shut the eff up! Thanks for commenting, hon!
“We just grew up.” Yes. And we got on with it. The idiots who think they’re going to have a revolution…new boss, worse boss. Idiots who think they’re going to live a life of leisure under communism.
most of gen x were grown up by age 10. yes, Gen X have seen more combat than our parents and grand parents. the early X were old enough to help in the persian gulf crisis escorting tankers to the panama invasion, gulf 1, somalia, gulf 2 afghanistan, syria, serbia. Don't trust the government or corporations. Most of us want to be left alone.
We didn't. Much like we did with our Boomer parents and technology, we were dragged in kicking and screaming. But now that we were brought into the fight, we fight Gen X style. With relentless mockery in an online world because assault charges would be brought if we rolled up.
LMAO! Very true! Sarcasm and nastiness are our "love language". LMAO! I won't bully those kids, but if they provoke... well, what does a bear or snake do when it's provoked?
Snowflakes today would buckle at our lifestyle 40 to 50 years ago. We were built and raised differently. We tried to give our kids everything we didn't have. It turned our kids into ungrateful brats.
True. Thankfully, my two aren't ungrateful because they weren't raised too terribly different than I was. My two kids are Gen-Z's with the heart of Xers. My oldest has even said, " I was born in the wrong decade!" Because of that, they think a lot of what people of their generation and the younger generation (Gen Alpha) do or say is ridiculous. Sure, they agree with some of it, as do I. But a lot of times, we're rolling our eyes and shaking our heads.
Huh... And that thought was burning so brightly in your mind that you wanted to "call me out" to what? Try to embarrass me? Good for you for trying! Go give yourself a cookie, sweetie! Good job!
Such a great video Rosey. We really have been through a ton of stuff while growing up. We got to experience the Berlin wall being torn down, the Statue of Liberty disappear by magician David Copperfield, and the many music festivals like the US festival, Live Aid, and Farm Aid for example. For the very first time in our lives we FINALLY get to relax a bit and enjoy those little things that we missed out on while growing up. If GenZ has a problem with that then Oh well. We deserve our peace finally so I say we enjoy every second of it while we can.
Wait, what? We are talking about Gen X here, right? In those days, what would make teachers think of sniffing students' water bottles or asking what was in them? One of my junior high school English teachers was high every day. We actually didn't carry water bottles, though...And, "What kind of parents did you have that they didn't notice that their vodka took missing? How did you get the vodka?" I believe there are enough videos that discuss the type of parenting that Gen Xers experienced. I was "raised" by a single alcoholic father who didn't notice when alcohol came up missing. Moreover, friends had older siblings who could buy alcohol...
Well, I guess we had different parents because a lot of the parents I knew noticed stuff like that. Now, I do know some parents didn't "take care" of their kids. My mom worked too, and I was a latchkey off and on. But she did notice the things I did and was kind of strict. Not ALL Boomer parents were neglectful or passive with their kids. As for the schooling, they were pretty strict at the schools here too. Kids DID get thrown out of school for underage drinking and got in trouble with their parents too. So, yeah, bottles were checked if they were allowed in the classroom at all. Let's not forget, I don't know you, I don't know your parents, and I didn't go to your school. So, I guess not all Gen-X is created equal. And I didn't even get into cultural differences. I'm assuming you're of a different race than myself? You can ask any black person and they will tell you that there were certain things a white child could get away with that black children couldn't. Anything from talking back to and cursing in front of their parents to, sometimes being able to steal alcohol from their parents (at least, my best friend at the time could). So, while we experienced a lot of things the same, there were also some things that were done differently.
@@Gen_X_Rosey My parents were Silent Generation, born March 6 and March 12, 1926. I have Boomer brothers. I am an early Gen Xer from Northeast Ohio, and in the early to mid 1980s, we didn't bring bottles or anything to drink to school. Thermoses were for soup. Most of us packed a sandwich and drank from the water fountains. Bottled water wasn't a thing in Cleveland until decades later. So we didn't actually try to sneak anything into school in bottles, which I suppose is why I can't imagine teachers checking them. I absolutely understand about the cultural differences. I am white, but for 13 of my young adult years, I was more or less a part of black culture regarding the neighborhoods I lived in, who I worked with, and who I dated/lived with. While I agree with you that, in general, black parents were stricter with kids, we certainly couldn't talk back to or curse in front of our parents, either, because all of my friends' parents were Silent Generation, and they didn't play that at all. They were our parents, not our friends. I think there are some differences between the experiences of early Gen Xers and later Xers as well as the cultural differences that you mentioned. Bullying Gen Z because they don't drink like we did is as bad as the bullies we knew, who discouraged kids from studying, because they would mock us and call us a "brain." I agree with you that it's terrible.
@@jennieoconnor5695 Thank you for your Insight, I appreciate that. Your parents were only one year younger than my maternal grandma. My parents were teens when they had me and were junior Boomers". I'm a Bicentennial Xer, close to being a Xennial. My high school best friend at the time used to cuss around her parents, and they didn't really care. I was scandalized because my cousins and I would have gotten smacked in the mouth or spanked! Even saying the word "lie" around our parents was no-no! She also got into a fist fight one morning with her mom (and bragged about it) because she didn't want to go to school. When I got to school, her mom drove up with her in the front seat. She got out, stopped to talk to me for a second and said, "I have to take this note up to the office. I'm quittin' school!" I was, again, scandalized! She figured that she "...won the fight." What I figured, all these years later, was that her mom got tired of arguing and fighting with her bull-headed daughter! The girl whined and argued until her mom gave in and she got her way. Poor woman hardly got any peace at all!" So, I just saw a huge cultural difference in how she was raised as opposed to how I was.
As well as the people we grew up around. We were forced to build up a tolerance to different circumstances and have creative defense mechanisms. Apathy was just one of the symptoms of our situation. Thank you for interacting!
You know what pisses me off is when Gen X's blame us millenials are like gen z's. Ques what while you sought from your high horse that older end of millenials are born in 1981. Ques what we did not have cellphones when we grow up. World wide web was launched in 1994 bedore that it was on military use only. So do your backround researche. Since news flash older end of millenials have had to deal your bs for whole our life.
This is such a moving and touching story. It's amazing how many people, including myself, have misconstrued the meaning of this song. Once you understand it, you really do appreciate the deeper meaning behind it. Oh, and thanks for recommending the Professor of Rock video! I just watched it, and it was an amazing story! Benny was such a wonderful and caring person, especially after what he did for those kids. It certainly deserved the success that it had received. We'll miss you, Benny. 😭
I'm so glad you watched it! I cried when Benny did. You could tell that hearing he made a difference meant a lot to him. Thank you for your kind words because I have people all on Reddit trying to make me feel like a horrible person for appreciating the deeper meaning of this song, all because of the video. It's like they don't want to understand that the music video is not an accurate representation of that song as far as the true meaning behind it. They act as if he and that 16-year-old girl had an affair when it was HIM who told his writing partner "She's just 16 years old. Leave her alone." Those were his words to someone else!
