We're really blogging like our grandparents here lol @hotvintagepoll

My mom decided to state that my generation uses Tumblr often. I was unsure. Sleuthing in the internet prompted mixed but affirmative results. Now I am curious to actually see.

Old people

Silent & Boomer parenting strategy: I’m going to mentally, emotionally, and/or physically beat my child into doing what I want. Life is supposed to difficult. 😡

Gen X & Millennial parenting strategy: Abusing kids is wrong! To counteract this, I will simply not parent at all. 😌

Gen Z parenting strategy: I’m not going to have kids. 😎

I’m a millennial. Also I know websites sometimes differ with the years, but yeah.

If there’s someone from the GI generation on Tumblr, that’s so cool.

"The boomers get tied to the sixties because they are assumed to have created a culture of liberal permissiveness, and because they were utopians—political idealists, social activists, counterculturalists. In fact, it is almost impossible to name a single person born after 1945 who played any kind of role in the civil-rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the New Left, the antiwar movement, or the Black Panthers during the nineteen-sixties. Those movements were all started by older, usually much older, people.

The baby boomers obviously played no substantive role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, or in the decisions of the Warren Court, which are the most important political accomplishments of the decade. Nor were they responsible for the women’s movement or gay liberation. Betty Friedan was born in 1921, Gloria Steinem in 1934. The person conventionally credited with setting off the Stonewall riots, Stormé DeLarverie, was born in 1920.

Even the younger activists in the civil-rights movement were not boomers. John Lewis was born in 1940, Diane Nash in 1938, Bob Moses in 1935. The three activists who were killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi, in 1964, were all born before 1945. Stokely Carmichael was born in 1941 (in Trinidad and Tobago), Bobby Seale in 1936, Huey Newton in 1942. Malcolm X was born in 1925, four years before Martin Luther King, Jr."

The Misconceptions about Baby Boomers and the Sixities

A fantastic piece

The silent generation had a lot of music without lyrics.

It's weird to see Americans talk about the 'greatest generation' because though I know what they're talking about- the USAs WW2 obsession is well known- but it's wild how that affects language. Their 'greatest generation' isn't called that here, in the UK they're the 'silent generation' so let's see

Tumblr users over 50

Hiya! I'm curious about you! What brought you to Tumblr? How long have you been on here? What keeps you here? Do you use other social media? What are your primary interests here? What are your opinions on older Tumblr users?

If you're under 50 (48-49 I'll accept) no need to participate. I just turned 50 so I'm interested in other people like me.

Answer any or all questions. Comment or reblog 😊

Totally worth it

Random ass morning thought:

If the hallmark of millennials is that we're perma-fucked because

- we came of age during a giant depression resulting from a bunch of corporations making shitty decisions

- we lack opportunities that those before us (and likely/hopefully those after us) will have due to systematic changes that we're currently fighting for

- we're living through a time of massive cultural shift and it makes us all nihilistic and crazy

- being deeply unsure of the future means we pick up hyper self sufficient hobbies so we can grow food, repair out stuff, build things, and only rely on our own right knit communities...

.....this means we're definitely the modern day Silent Generation, right? Fundamentally changed by our experiences, largely burned out and tired, and have lifelong habits focusing on survival that younger generations will find quaint.

(That's the one that hit adulthood in the 20s/Great Depression, would have been too old to get drafted in WW2)

so heres the first half of the music list. It has music for every generation alive or death.

it also has music history. if you like this list I will ask you what music you might want to see here, also for part 8

The Great Generational Jigsaw: A Tale of Irony and Intrigue

Piecing Together the Puzzle of Time: Where Every Generation Fits Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a family gathering, watching with bemusement as your tech-savvy niece tries to explain the latest social media trend to your Baby Boomer uncle? Or perhaps you’re the Millennial in the office, caught in the crossfire of a heated debate between your Gen X boss and a Gen Z intern over the…

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Why Gen X should be mad at Markiplier

This morning I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts while walking my dog. “Distractibles” stars youtuber Markiplier and his friends Bob and Wade. My kids introduced me to these guys. They’re freaking hilarious. Except today Markiplier, a Millenial born the year after I graduated high school, glibly stated that Boomers were the generation before Millenials. Nope. Listen up, younglings.…

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