“Figuring out technology” we’ve been through more technological changes than any generation. From rotary phones to record players, boombox, walkman,, stick shift vehicles, arcade games, manual typewriters etc., We were the 1st youth who operated computers, cell phones, social media platforms, on, and on, and on. We also can read and write in cursive, read maps (while driving) tell time on an analog clock, and quickly provide monetary change without needing the use of a computer. I’m just saying, we adapt to our surroundings, just as efficiently as a chameleon.🥳✨
Its litterally taken 20yrs for smart phones to catch up withe tattoo shack rebuilt electronics I was rocking in my car in 2004. I INSTALLED MY OLD PENTIUM 233MHZ IN MY 88 BARETTA AND USED AMP VOICE RECOGNITION TO SKIP OUR STOP PLAY. To bad ppl screwed me over... it's easy to get broken by this world when you have insane ppl for family
Gen X here (1967) He’s right and wrong. I do have empathy, raised my 5 kids ages 24-37 to have empathy. What I don’t give AF about is anyone’s drama, games, BS and the like. As for being an empty nester, I’m enjoying it just fine. 👍🏼
I have been an empty nester for 14 years now and I have loved every minute of it. I can have my grandchildren over for a weekend and then send them home all hopped up on sugar and yes that is a right of passage for grandparents.
1971 GenX here - I mean the question is "care about what?" We care about what WE care about, not what "society" says we should care about. And we dont do shit for recognition. We want to stay under the RADAR. We just do things outside the system. We are the REAL counter-culture. We do not care about anything we cant actually change in our own lives. You do you and I'll do me. Leave us alone and stay out of our way. Yet we will help and do so much more than other generations where it really matters: In the shadows and dark places in life. We arent scared to go there. We lived there. Just don't expect to hear about it. We dont care that you dont know what we do.
1977 here and facts! The guy in the video at the end (the one he’s reacting to), he doesn’t speak for all Gen Xers!! Maybe himself yes but not for all of us!
We do care about many many things. The “we don’t care” is a metaphor for we have no patience for elaborate reasons why things can’t be done or excuses for why things are too hard.
Ok, I am 50 years old. And to be honest, the OG GenXers, the older ones REALLY DONT CARE. We're tired of every other Gen whining about EVERYTHING. We did for ourselves, and younger Gens need to learn how to. 👍
Turns out too much information is more of a problem than greater difficulty accessing it. The younger generations seem overwhelmed with figuring out how to do things?
Correct. I'm from 1965, being the starting point of my generation. If i had to explain to younger people how i grew up, they would probably start to cry. But don't worry, i/we took it as being normal, and cringe a lot these present times.
When we say we don't care it means we don't care about petty, unnecessary BS. I can't speak for all Gen X but for me it takes a whole lot to hurt my feelings because I just don't care. Now, my kids are a whole lot, they are my world and I care very very much.
Yes it's the way to avoid being controlled by other people's, self appointed, victimhood. Or Woke politics. Facts dont care about your feelings and all that.
Daughter just got her wisdom teeth removed and send a picture. Before I remembered why she would look like someone beat her up I was getting ready to drive the 2 hours to her house in Dallas to find whomever hurt my 30 yr old daughter 😂
Dude, we care when it really matters. Globally, we had...USA For Africa, Live Aid, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the end of Apartheid, the fall of the Soviet Union and the Northern Ireland peace agreements just to name a few. But, we tend to not care at all about how anyone may feel regarding our own personal choices. BTW, I believe we coddled our own children due to collective PTSD from our own upbringings. We are proud about it now because we really are survivors to varying degrees. Fun one!
This post is so spot on!! My husband and I coddled the sh!t out of our children. I always explained that after many things that I went through, I didn't want them to feel like an adult by 6. I wanted them to be children and enjoy their childhoods. I will admit that even though my grown children are great, kind-hearted, polite, loving people...... they are not tough enough. Now I worry about them. I feel like they are always one catastrophe away from a meltdown & that's not ok. Things that bother them seem so little to me. I'm thinking, just do A,B, and C to fix that and your good. What's the big deal. My children always tell me that I'm much stronger than they are. I guess that we really do need to find a happy medium. Nobody is perfect, but I did what I thought was right. I was strict about what mattered. I kept them safe. My husband and I discuss this often. We were married really young and we have always lived for others our entire lives. We still do way too much for our grown children. I'm gen x and I get told all of the time that I'm an empath. At first, I didn't even know what that was. I care a lot about people. When I see someone who is hurting, I airways wish that I could help them. Anyway, have a good one. Each generation has good and bad. It's interesting seeing the differences. I actually wouldn't change my childhood. It was hard, but the world was a better place, IMO. I have amazing parents as well. They are 82, and 80 now and have been married for almost 61 years. They did the best they could, as did my husband and I. These videos are actually fun to watch. They bring back a lot of memories. I will say that generation X has an amazing work ethic. Our dad had us helping with everything in the yard and the house from a very young age. He worked 90 hours a week and our mom worked 2 jobs. We HAD TO help out. Now, the 5 of us go take care of our parents every single day. They deserve that. I hope that my husband and I get a much kindness and respect from our children as we get older and have our own health problems. 🙏🏻🤞🏻🫶🏻💪🏻
@@Goldie789 I am pretty sure that you will be well taken care of by your wonderful children. I also believe you may be surprised at their strength if ever really tested. I was ancient when I had my only child (37) so I had a little more time to heal than you, lol. Because of this, my kid is slightly less entitled than his peers and he can even read cursive, lol. However, he still seemed very soft for 21 years old. Then, earlier this year, when my FIL was dying and that kid of mine stepped up in ways I could not believe. Over several months, he spoke to nurses, helped arrange home health care equipment, changed his bedding, fed him, held his hand as he passed away, comforted my hubby and created the memorial video for the service. I could not believe it was my snowflake kid adulting like that! I would be willing to bet that your kids have strengths that even they don't know about yet; but they will surface when needs be. I am thankful for my childhood as well and I recognize the benefits it had on me in the long-term. I am also aware that it caused me to overcompensate with my own kiddo. This is why I try not to blame his generation too much...
You named things we witnessed and were TOLD to care about. Other than “we are the world” did you really care about the wall, apartheid?? We witnessed it but even then, most of us just didn’t give two shietsz
Older Gen X here. Our fault for overcorrecting and turning out these softies. I do care about real stuff. Just not nonsense. Moral: The world doesn't owe you anything! Don't need anything that you can't get for yourself. Be self-sufficient and strong.
Hi!! 1972 here!! Sherri is definitely a great mouthpiece for us, she doesn’t mince words & has phenomenal clap back skills. I don’t give a fck about what strangers think of me however I do care what my friends & family think & at my age they’ve given up any hope of me ever changing. When we say we have zero f’s to give it means we don’t care what people think about us. It doesn’t mean we lack empathy. I’ll show how much I care if you fck w my tribe. ❤❤
depends on the xer tbh. i still look like i'm in my 20s no surgeries. when in my 20s i got into the theaters for kids rates and had to show an id for adult😂.
I'm a GenX and I love GenZ. They are SO easy to mess with - so sensitive. I don't even have to try to get them upset. It's like they wake up upset - just on the verge of tears. I find that hilarious!
Dude! My son is gen Z, and he is so glad that I tempered him against this. He walks among his Gen Z friends like a gladiator. He makes them cry...I'm so proud.
Most of us Gen X parents would walk through fire for our kids...we love way harder than our parents ever loved us. I think so many of us tried to take the good stuff from our childhoods and passed them on to our kids. Yes I know some have dropped the ball on being parents but so many of us tried so hard to break the cycle of crap parenting. If I say I love you I mean it.
1965 Xer here. A lot of us were raised with the common phrase "Do you want me to give you something to cry about?" . You learned to control that stuff, at least in public. My cares are not flung out in every direction. We portion them out accordingly. What we won't ever care about is BS excuses and BS drama. Nobody took it from us, and we're not taking it from others.
I can still build computers. I'm the tech support in my family and had to repair so many issues. But, I refuse to replace the screen in my smartphone. I know my skill limits. 😂
Remember the original children of the corn was written about gen x kids. And sherri's right, cooking grilled cheese boxed Mac and cheese by the time I was 5 walked ourselves to school at the same time . Iwas watching my 2 yo brother by the time I was 6. By the time I was 8, I was practically my brother's mom, fixing his breakfast, making sure he did his homework, cleaning, cooking, etc. Yeah we were adults. Childhood is a myth to us
I hear ya. I was 7 and responsible for my 5 year old brother. I got my ass whooped if he did anything bad. My moms thinking was I was the oldest, I should know better. Whatever that meant lol.
I got yelled at because my brother (6), my boy cousin (4) decided to leave the mall because my cousin was bored. I was "supposed" to be watching them and my girl cousin (2). My girl cousin did something that needed my attention and they dipped out. Where was my mom and aunt you ask? In a store and didn't want us go into, because they were afraid we'd break something. I was 10 watching three kids, 2 were toddlers.😅
Totally. Oldest girl got you that role in the family. Latchkey kid at 7. Looking after brother before and after school by 9. Cooking family meal by 10…🫤
And now I'm so independent I just do it myself, because I can't ask for help. But I do know basic mechanics (oil change, tires, battery). Plumbing, and patching drywall
I was sitting for my younger brothers for entire weekends when my parents went on trips at age 11. They'd leave Friday after I got home from school and not come home until late Sunday night. But I was watching them outside by the age of 8. My mother would be inside doing whatever and I'd be outside taking care of my brothers.
I am Gen X... I care what my wife thinks of me. I care about my kids. I care about my work. I care about the suffering I see all over the world. My daughter is in fact the reason I am alive. But I don't care what others think of me. We had the best music, we were feral. Tech grew up with us... We can handle no tech too because we spent our days outside. We got beat when we did things wrong and it's a badge of honor. You faced your punishment. I could buy my mother cigarettes. You came home when you heard the whistle. We are fiercely independent because we were forced to be, many of us are those that are actively breaking trauma cycles. The "I don't care" is our armor.
Or Gen Xer who only had one kid in late 30s as an oops. This little Gen Z, knows how to cook, clean, laundry at 12 and she was lone at 10. She was also learned to drive tractors at 10 years old and the minute she turn 16 she got her license in 15 minutes of a driving test because the Boomer tester said I wish I see more of this kid to me 😂😂. This little Gen Z is annoyed by her peers right now thinking they are complete emotional idiots. I guess this Gen Z was born in the wrong decade 😂😂😂😂
Gen Z reminds me a mini Christopher Columbus’. You’re constantly rebranding, renaming, ordinary items that has been around for years. I was told that going “green” is in, meaning, when you’re finished with the sandwich bag or tin foil, just give it a good wash and reuse it again! That’s not called going green, it’s called being poor because you can’t afford to replenish it!
People have rebranded things to try to change how society thinks for at least the 20th century, and prob longer but I don't know about that. Listen to George Carlin joke about the progression of "shell shock" to "PTSD". With social media, it's plausible to think the constant chatter accelerated the same impulse and as older people we're even more irritated by the bombardment of younger folk telling us to change our words (and emoji choices)
I'm 47 (Gen X) and I have NO children.. So how's that empty nester logic work with someone like me? 🙄 Also, I know very few Genxers that have any problem navigating technology at all.. (We invented a lot of it.) I'm going to end this comment now so I don't hurt any little Gen Z oversensitive feelings by writing what I really think. ✌🏾
Yup. We saw the growth of technology from pong to the amazing CGI of today. We learned BASIC in school and we're some of the first to grab smart phones. We rule!!
I agree with him to a point. But I think our "we don't give a fuck" attitude resolves around ourselves, not those we care about. But when it comes to other people judging us? Yeah, we don't give a fuck!
I’m Gen X, I’m 59 (born in 1965), to say that we (Gen X) don’t care about anything or have zero F’s to give….. that’s not completely accurate. We care and give a F about our Family, our Children, and those we actually call friends. Other than that it becomes an individual thing, I personally care about my Daughter and Granddaughter, and my family, but If you aren’t Family, Blood, or a friend of mine I have no fk’s to give about you. If it doesn’t effect me or my life directly, I can care less about it. That’s not all because I’m Gen X though, I’m also a Cold War era Army Veteran, which has added to my already quirky attitude, and instilled me with a very dark sense of humor. When someone starts 💩 with me I don’t throw insults and yell, I just start throwing down, don’t have time for BS. If there’s a problem then let’s handle it and get on with our day, or just stay out of my f’ing way. I didn’t raise my daughter much different than how I was raised, though I was more active with her than my parents were with me. She turned out great, a bit too much like me, but still good.
Amen. GenX is human. We love our family and friends. We do care. BUT that is different than "giving a flying fuck." If our kid is hungry... we feed them. If our kid is vegan and coming to Thanksgiving... we don't give a fuck about the veganism. Just eat what you want. We're not changing the whole menu. You gotta know what the terms mean. "You got sexually harassed at work? I'll kick his ass." But "Soneone at work wore a trump shirt and it made you upset? Fuck that... get back to work." See... perspective.
dont forget though that a lot of the friends we had going into 2018 are no longer here, meaning a lot less f's to give, family can easily burn up thier allotted F quota, as for kids, sometimes, especially in the uk, its hard to allow your kids to have time to learn to grow now, can even get social services tell you "its a bit young to teach them cause and effect, your ruining thier childhood" when all you are doing is trying to teach them not to burn the house down, saying no is abuse and other such lunacy thats the current stance by governmental departments. Lets not even mention taking a minute to run the morning over in your head to figure where a mark came from, and by the time you remember that you didnt clip you hand in that stupid plastic clip this morning meaning you must have clipped you child instead, then check the clip size and yes its the mark, you end up with them riding your arse for 2 years or more .... some of us get to a point where we have to scream into the void occasionally each month not to go insane, and not because we care or empathise, but specifically because we know if it was us we would have been dead by thier age without cause and effect and the sheer willpower it gave us to shrug it off because if your parents found out you thought very much that, they would be NICE for the time you are ill, but the following months, the nice wouldnt stop.
You make a point about being selfish. Some people care about others who are not part of their family or circle and some people don't. I'm glad to be a Gen X'r who cares about the community and really -the well being of all humans. I also don't believe in resorting to violence when offended, now that I'm an adult.
💗 when a gen x says they don't give a f*ck, ask yourself what's the subject being talked about. Because maybe it just that whiney asses feelings or opinion we don't give a f*ck about.
My brother and I are Gen X. He would get so mad at the younger generations. My niece who is Gen Z, has a great work ethic because of him. I can't believe she will be 20 in January.
I'm young GenX, 45. I had boundaries for the way I raised my kids (who are adults now) - I didn't care about the stuff that didn't affect me and that didn't hurt them. I didn't yell and scream over a messy room the way my parents did, but I did insist on clear egress to a door in case of fire and if they lost something I wasn't helping them find it. I let them loose on their bicycles to freely roam after teaching them how to read the signal lights on cars and rules of the road. If there were natural consequences to their behavior I let them experience it - I didn't give rides for missed school buses or bring forgotten homework to school. I said No only when something did affect me or would be harmful to them. I gave them choices (that I could live with) but nonetheless, "because I said so" was not in my vocabulary, to spite the way it had been the only thing my parents said. Buuuut, I also cared deeply. I made sure their brains and bodies got exercise and fun during school breaks, unlike how I was locked up alone in the house with the TV as my babysitter. I made sure their birthdays were celebrations of them - they wore handmedown clothes most of the year but got a whole new outfit for their birthday. I showed up to their recitals the way my folks hadn't. I cared politically, and took my kids to Occupy Wall Street and other protests and rallies, and had them participate when I voted by mail at home. I didn't ask them about their grades, I asked them what was the most fun or interesting thing they did in school that day.
It may be a predictable irony that the hardships Gex X faced made us strong - but by overcompensating & shielding our own kids, we inadvertently created a mentally/emotionally weaker Millennial generation
‘73 Gen X mom of Gen Z child who I care more about than my own life. I care about equality & humanity in general. As for the petty & childish things that people get so obsessed with - could not care less. As for other people’s opinions on my life choices, I could not care less. 🤷🏻♀️
We were raised to not care, or share emotions, but mess with my family and I would go to jail for the rest of my life if that's what it took to protect them. Outside my family... don't really care what people think about me. Doesn't mean I don't care about people, just not what they think about me. I wouldn't stand by and let you kick a dog, or pick on a kid or elderly person. My trigger to decide who I care about can change in a heartbeat.
At fifty I realize the real problem with my generation is we actually care a lot. We see the younger generation not only self destructing but trying to take our society with them and it breaks our hearts because we believe in bigger things as well as ourselves that actually matter to our daily lives and the future lives of our children...
I love to watch TheRealSlimSherry content, as an GenX myself, my mom always told me as a kid that the world is unkind places and if you are not careful it will chew you up and spit you out. It's not we don't care but, I think really only care about our families or close friends and as for other people we don't know we try to stay in our own lane. Because we all have problems and not one generation is different from another beside age, because GenX knows how to deal with their problems, unlike the younger generation.
As an earlier Generation Xer. We're tired of the spoiled kids who think they are entitled to everything and think the world revolves around them and a lot of them don't even have empathy. Slim Sherry is my all time favorite Generation Xer. She speaks the truth of how we grew up. As an Older Generation Xer I can tell you she totally is spot on. Generation X does care up to a point. There are some things we don't care about and it depends on what it is. So yeah we do care about certain things. What we don't care is what people think of us and a few other doozies. Empathy from a Generation Xer also depends on who it is and what it is.
As one of the younger Gen-Xers (Much as I hate to admit my age) and without kids or marriage, I will say this: I care about those who care about me. My pack, the loyal, and anyone who shows respect to others. That goes for people regardless of their generation to me. Everything else about Gen-X I 100% agree with though. Childhood was a bitch. lol Love your reactions, keep up the good work. :)
Baby Boomer here. We weren't locked out of houses; our houses weren't locked. In my neighborhood, we didn't start locking our houses until I was 12 and then, only because some freak was stealing ladies' panties off the wash lines.
Lady in blue explained my life legit, I literally lived a whole summer off blueberry pop tarts until my crap turned blue 🤣. I was partying with adults when I was 14 by the time I was 20 I was a fully fledged adult with a daughter and a household 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly, you can only learn a small amount about GenX from videos which are the mild censored and abridged version of how we really are. To truly know a Genxer, you need to actually talk with them, earn the right to hang out with them (GenX we only hang out with those who've earned that right and those GenX that haven't, there's a reason why they've been isolated from the rest of us. One online place to do this is also certain games, a number of GenX still play specific online games in which the attitude they've had as a kid definitely comes out in these games. An obscure one but one that has a good chance of getting to know a Genxer is MajorMUD, a BBS based MUD that's been around since'94. Another one and even younger generations in the game have a similar attitude and mentality as GenX is Eve Online but with that one you will want to get into a heavily PvP alliance of older players. Fair warning though, this is a very unforgiving, cruel, and harsh game in which there's been battles that have thousands of concurrent players in a single fight from all over the world. Now we do care about certain people, those who not only earned our respect but who we actually like as a person. In these cases if they're in a need of help and even with some strangers. We'll be there for the person but if they mess that up or don't take our advice we let them fail as a learning experience or just walk away from them (the reason why certain GenXers have been isolated from the rest of us). What was said about jobs, some kids had jobs at 6-7 years old in the 80s and earlier. Paperboy wasn't just a game in the 80s it was an actual job that kids did before they were 10 and what that game was based off of. I myself would do work at a company my parents owned starting at the age of 5-6 years old. I'd also be working alongside the other employees at the company and got to know many of them from that. Kids would be working at fastfood restaurants and bagging groceries at markets at 12-14 years old. Even babysitting and lemonade stands for us was an early form of work we did to earn a little extra cash. Younger kids did lemonade stands while older kids did the babysitting, these were usually done by older kids in the neighborhood such as the older sister of a friend. Those public announcements on TV"Do you know when your kids are" were real and in fact it was certain celebrities from major films and TV shows saying it. There's also a reason why we cared for our kids differently than how we were raised. Slim Sherry even brought this up, both other people of younger generations and because of certain laws, if we did do the things that our parents did in raising us, we'd be arrested and in jail for it along with facing losing custody of them due to this.
@@TheGrannyGoat and when the devs or others try changing things especially with P2W, you don't mind going on a complete bloodbath in the game until things are fixed. I played Eve Online on and off since 2004, last alliance I was in was Explicit Alliance until it disbanded in 2018.. I played a some after that in high sec but that was due to most of my time dealing with RL and not being able to dedicate time to an alliance.
@@desmien679 Been busy this year and not in game much, but I keep a couple of my accounts training. Yeah, sometimes you wonder what they were thinking, or smoking, when they make changes! Not been in an alliance for ages so I don't have that worry. We do try to avoid high sec as much as possible, it's crazy trying to play there.
@@TheGrannyGoat I do know that there's a big issue of the Chinese server migration and since then along with starting with 2020 a huge problems with changes in the game one of which is that insurance doesn't cover losses in high sec systems. This was after the release of the mobile version Eve Echoes which prevents PvP in high sec. They're trying to get players from mobile games to play Eve Online and I definitely know that even hardcore PvP gamers have quit the game due to also trying to bring in P2W mechanics which has flooded the mobile version
When we Gen X'ers say we don't care, we are saying we don't care about people. We certainly don't give 2 F'cks about pronouns, or whose feelings are hurt by, well almost anything! If we didn't like something we didn't watch it, listen to it or go to it! Why? Because we don't care! We were tough enough to know that some douche saying something about you wasn't the end of the world! We are not whiny, over-sensitive, nuts that think they need therapy every time they don't get their way in life! We just pull of big boy/girl pants on and continue! We just can't believe how sensitive is now about everything! We lost our Aunt Jemima bottles because they were deemed insensitive by the younger generations. Am I right guys?? 😂
Only boomers whine about that. Boomers are actually the worst generation. They got everything and still whine about things that don't concern them. Who cares about pronouns, we all have them. Who cares if someone is transitioning? It's not your concern unless you're financially responsible. Who cares if a woman across the world or country needs or wants an abortion? It's not your body and not interfering with your life, and don't get me started with the white privileged man in his 70s who can't handle that society is not like it was 50 years ago, and whine for the good old days. There's a reason they're called the good old days. They're done and never coming back. Boomers need to get over themselves.
Eh, I mean I care enough to be respectful of what someone else wants to be called 🤷🏻♀️ I don't care about my own pronouns lol I think that we (gen x) were not big on everyone having labels and today kids want to label everything and be part of a certain group to feel different than everyone else maybe? I'm not sure exactly why. Oh and if someone needs therapy please do, no shame there at all!
66 Gen X Brit here..knew how to cook at 7,walked to school unaccompanied ,latch key kid, Tv 3 channels that closed at midnight ,power cuts ,lock on the phone,fend for yourself if you injured yourself Dettol was your friend…oh those were the days
When we say we don't give a f*** we mean we don't care about the stupid sh*t like other people's opinions. We lived through the AIDS crisis and lost nearly a whole generation of lgbtq peope, we saw kids dying of famine and raised millions to help, we have empathy where it's needed and where its deserved.
@@unrulyarcana2394 emojis didnt go into use until the 2000s. Nothing was coded to use them natively until then. ( they're just teeny images ). They didnt really take off until smartphones. Unless you happen to live in Japan, they didnt really get popular until after 2007.
Gen-X checking in.... Yeah, we do care about our loved ones and are empathetic for those in our community. 💗 It's when people resort to name calling or clutching their pearls over something. Get the fuck over yourselves... we don't need to "go put on our big boy pants".. We are always ready to rock and roll any day, any time. ☮💜🎶
50yr old Gen X here. And don't let old boy fool you..... Yes, we care about our own kids. We just don't give a fuck about everybody else. And shawty talking bout the thumbs up emoji can go play in traffic blindfolded.
Ok, so I agree with both of them. We care a lot about people we love. I don’t give a crap about other people and what they think about me. My kids will try and stop me every time from saying things in public, telling me to shush and that’s rude but I tell them “ I don’t care. I will never see these people again in my life and if I do I will never hang out with them”
Lol Look I know most of this stuff is satire, but I want to just clear up one thing. I don't really believe that our parents "didn't want to see us" but they were just exhausted. Gen X was really the first generation where both the parents were working outside the home whether by choice or by necessity. And the idea of "childcare" was really just starting to become a thing back then. Mostly there was just teenage babysitters if you could afford to pay one. And if not, then you gave your kids a house key so they could let themselves in when they got home from school. Then you told them to either play outside till you got home, or for some it was stay in the house till we get home. So you had to grow up a little faster and become more independent. Parents sometimes had to leave for work before it was time for you to go to school, so you had to get yourself to school and best believe your parents would call sometimes to make sure you made it there too. I used to get up with an alarm clock every morning, take a shower, get my 2 little brothers up, make coffee, drink a cup of coffee, and get the 3 of us to the bus stop when it was time. Then we let ourselves in when we got home and did our chores and homework till the parents got home. Then we went outside till dinner time, ate dinner, got ourselves ready for bed while our exhausted parents sat on the couch watching tv and winding down, told our parents goodnight, and went to bed. Then wake up, rinse, repeat. Our parents loved us, they were just trying to figure out a world where you have kids but you both have to work outside the home. This is why I've been a SAHM with all 4 of my children and wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah, we have to sacrifice that extra income and do without frivolous things we might want sometimes, but my hubby makes enough to pay the bills and keep the kids in clothes and shoes and give them most of what they want. My 2 teenagers both got jobs as soon as they turned 16 and honestly I think they'll be better off for it and may not have done it if we were more well off and they were super spoiled all the time. Now they'll have that job experience and work ethic already instilled before they turn 18. That's more than I can say for most kids I see these days. Everyone is different and makes their own choices when it comes to parenting and that's ok. I think our parents did the best they could with what they knew at the time. And now we do the same.
As Gen X'er I don't feel like I need social media . People show only what people want us to see and that isn't the truth, so much more happens that we don't see. We understand that. I really believe we are the last generation to understand the point of privacy, We don't share everything. It's true we really don't care. We don't care to be fake. we don't care what other's think of us. We have to authentically us or life doesn't work for us. IMO
Loads of empathy lives within this Gen Xer. The more experience you have, the more you care, and know what can happen. Caring too much is true, but, in my case not ashamed to talk about it.
Oh us Gen Xers really don’t give 2 shits about what strangers say about us; but if they say something about our loved 1s, they will be ripped to shreds. Whether that be verbally or physically all depends on how much we ache! Our mental health treatments either involved a straight jacket or (most commonly) listening to R.E.M.s “Everybody Hurts” on continuous repeat for a week.
I'm on the millennial border of gen x and we grew up free range and it made us tough as nails. Words don't hurt anymore. Those of us that were bullied were terrorized in a way the younger people would never get.
I appreciate your interest in our generation. The 70s and 80s were a great time to come of age. It makes me sad that my daughter couldn't experience what I did. I've never been able to use the phrase, "Go out, and play."
Gen X being pushed out again? Stop appropriating our music, movies, actors and fashion, because that's the only reason you know about us. You can definitely take back tik tok. Please. Whoever that guy is, he's in the minority. Our relationships are important but we just don't care about being defined by Millenials, Gen Z or especially Boomers. Gen A are the future.
We care if it’s bad circumstances, we are people/ human beings . We don’t care if it’s poor decision making / self inflicted. “You made your bed , now lay in it” that’s how we were raised .
💗 As a gen Xer I really enjoy your videos. Everything they are saying is absolutely true. Only difference for me was that I'm a gen x from New York City and we drank out of the fire hydrant instead of the garden hose. 🤷♀️🙅♀️💪🏽
I am 50 and we created the GenZ because of our caring too much, but most of what your videos mention is true. We were raised to fend for ourselves and take up for ourselves.
I will be 50 on Sunday and yes she’s right… I was born and raised in Detroit and my father would regularly tell me to go play on 8 mile… And he was right too because McDonald’s was across eight Mile in Southfield and no, I never met Eminem 😂. BTW, congratulations grandpa… And 30 years later, we lived off of eight Mile in Harper Woods …and yes I told my kids to go play on 8 mile 😂😂😂😂 ah, memories…. Because tradition😂 😂😂
Hi Older gen X Australian here, everything in this video that was pointed out about us was absolutely spot on. i actually felt very surprised and validated at hearing that some of us are only alive fr our children. A lot of our childhoods were truly brutal as was a lot of others, because the Gen X lady's account of her history was the norm, say the Median between 1 and 100, then at least 49% percent of us were totally at risk of real annihilation either by self or by parents and/or the medical industry (Post war Eugenics (Nazism) ideology in the western medical industry was rampant - Hitler and Mussolini were the poster boys for the west in that era) at any moment in time. That we survived into adulthood to have kids of our own is truly miraculous. We became the hovering parents to counter the depraved neglect of ours.
Walked to school alone when I was in kindergarten. And yes, Mom did tell us to go play in the street. As for that guy who said Gen X was making up for our shitty childhoods with our kids? I think he was talking about The Greatest Generation.
Gen x definitely parented with more empathy that's why yall still in our houses. Our parents dumped us out into adulthood very early. And furthermore we over here doing inner child work, shadow work, learning pronouns and what not.
9:14 The reason we want to know where our kids are is that we know what happens out there when no parent knows what’s going on. We absolutely loved our freedoms. It wasn’t until I had kids that I thought “no f…ing way is any of that shit happening to my kids” (Gen X, ‘69)
1978 here, we don't really care about a lot of things but the one we do is our kids, he was right on that, but, everyone else's BS not so much. And I don't know about anyone else but I absolutely know what I'm doing when the kids start moving out! Freedom! Say what I want without hurting feelings, doing what I want without worrying what child is around the corner, yep, I know who I am and what I will be doing thank you very much 😂
That last guy is right. We do care. We just don't want the world to know it. We grew up stifling our feelings, so acting like we don't care became second nature. We care deeply about the things that truly matter. The rest... Not so much.
GenX empty nesters are simply doing their thing now that the kids are gone. I'm doing a phd, get ready for some wisdom. We're either making money or taking a break.
Addressing the “people are more perverted ….etc. “ statement. People have ALWAYS been effed up and horrible, we just know about it faster and with more detail now. The world has always been weird and scary, it’s just nobody talked about it.
Gen Z and Alpha or whatever you call them is waaay too sensitive, they need to grow some balls i'm tellin ya!! I love this woman! ❤ and yes, of course we care, we're just totally pissed off with gen Z's and Alpha's or whatever you call them attitude, ignorance and entitlement! The world is going insane!!!
I know!! 36 millennial here , It ticks me off when my kids stand there and cry for absolutely no reason and I have to scream at them to stop or I'll make them cry for real. I swear to God it's the internet teaching them this crap , I don't get it. I've also noticed they act so much younger. I have a 12 and 16 year old and they both still throw fits like little kids. I'm waiting for them to grow up a little bit but I feel like it will never happen! Fyi I'm not that nice and I don't baby them I really have no idea where it comes from.
GenX here {1968} NOTE: We DO NOT CARE about your crying, complaining, etc. Life is a B, Deal with it. Also, I have been an empty nester for 4 years. Enjoying every minute of it. Did I invest in my children. YES. Did I do things to 'makeup for my childhood"? Yep. My adult children do NOT have GRIT like us GenXrs. {Sadly.} Hard times create tough people. And the Mills and GenZs have not a clue and no GRIT. What those two Generations are complaining about are 1st world problems which means no problems. Like, a 5 days work week is just too much. Or I can't afford to buy a house while they buy their special Lattes, watch their streaming services, and party every weekend. Try toughing it out, get two jobs, save some money, stop buying on credit, and hunker down. How do you think we did it.
I want to expose one thing nobody talks about. There are some first and second year Gen Z that go online trying to larp as Gen X. That's when you see older looking people getting all emotional about something.
I’m an old GenX or young Boomer, depending on the chart you see. I have 3 kids that I will do anything for. But I raised them to be independent, like I was raised. They were allowed to roam. But they were taught to do right. When they were ready to go out on their own, I didn’t helicopter them. But when they needed to be rescued, I was there ASAP & I have driven all night to get each one, at one time or another. I care, I have empathy. Just not for nonsense. I’m that person that tells you to grow tf up. And as for what other people think of me? Lol, nah! 😂. My DIL asked if I wanted to go to her church so I could meet some people. I said no, I’ve met people before. I wasn’t impressed. 😂. My oldest tries to take care of me now 😊 2 are near me, 1 in NYC on her own. She was told by some that NY would chew her up & spit her out. But she’s been there doing good for 3 yrs She can be fearless bc she knows I’ll come if she needs me. My dad was the same - do what you want but call if you need me. It gave me strength just knowing he was there. He gave me what I gave my kids - independence.
“Figuring out technology” we’ve been through more technological changes than any generation. From rotary phones to record players, boombox, walkman,, stick shift vehicles, arcade games, manual typewriters etc., We were the 1st youth who operated computers, cell phones, social media platforms, on, and on, and on. We also can read and write in cursive, read maps (while driving) tell time on an analog clock, and quickly provide monetary change without needing the use of a computer. I’m just saying, we adapt to our surroundings, just as efficiently as a chameleon.🥳✨
I know aren’t they cute when they say that?? 😂😂😂😂.
@@silverpurkat it is so very cute.
EXACTLY. 💯💯 We know about and can use PLENTY of technology cuz we’ve seen so much of it.
@@andibay3736 true story
Its litterally taken 20yrs for smart phones to catch up withe tattoo shack rebuilt electronics I was rocking in my car in 2004.
I INSTALLED MY OLD PENTIUM 233MHZ IN MY 88 BARETTA AND USED AMP VOICE RECOGNITION TO SKIP OUR STOP PLAY.
To bad ppl screwed me over... it's easy to get broken by this world when you have insane ppl for family
Gen X here (1967) He’s right and wrong. I do have empathy, raised my 5 kids ages 24-37 to have empathy. What I don’t give AF about is anyone’s drama, games, BS and the like. As for being an empty nester, I’m enjoying it just fine. 👍🏼
Spot on!
Word girl!
You summed it up perfectly! We are, in fact, compassionate but highly intolerant of stupid drama.
Perfectly stated.😊
I have been an empty nester for 14 years now and I have loved every minute of it. I can have my grandchildren over for a weekend and then send them home all hopped up on sugar and yes that is a right of passage for grandparents.
1971 GenX here - I mean the question is "care about what?" We care about what WE care about, not what "society" says we should care about. And we dont do shit for recognition. We want to stay under the RADAR. We just do things outside the system. We are the REAL counter-culture. We do not care about anything we cant actually change in our own lives. You do you and I'll do me. Leave us alone and stay out of our way. Yet we will help and do so much more than other generations where it really matters: In the shadows and dark places in life. We arent scared to go there. We lived there. Just don't expect to hear about it. We dont care that you dont know what we do.
WORD!
Very well said.....and accurate for Baby Boomers as well.....me 67. Giddy up
1977 here and facts! The guy in the video at the end (the one he’s reacting to), he doesn’t speak for all Gen Xers!! Maybe himself yes but not for all of us!
Nailed it.
'71... That sums us up perfectly, should put that on a t-shirt 👍👍👍
We do care about many many things. The “we don’t care” is a metaphor for we have no patience for elaborate reasons why things can’t be done or excuses for why things are too hard.
THIS. 💯💯
Truth.. I get exhausted when the bullshit words keep coming out of someone's mouth. Just want to walk AWAY and roll my eyes to the heavens.
@@rosynwhyr5778I do walk away, mid-rant, too....😂😂😂
@@rosynwhyr5778 My autistic godson once said, "I'm done with this conversation" and just walked away. I thought, "You can DO that?" And now I do!
Right! I never took "we don't care" to mean uncompassionate. Its more "walk it off, you'll live".
Ok, I am 50 years old. And to be honest, the OG GenXers, the older ones REALLY DONT CARE. We're tired of every other Gen whining about EVERYTHING. We did for ourselves, and younger Gens need to learn how to. 👍
Turns out too much information is more of a problem than greater difficulty accessing it. The younger generations seem overwhelmed with figuring out how to do things?
Me too
.i agree lol
Yup 100% I’m 55 and agree wholeheartedly.
Exactly
Correct. I'm from 1965, being the starting point of my generation.
If i had to explain to younger people how i grew up, they would probably start to cry.
But don't worry, i/we took it as being normal, and cringe a lot these present times.
Us, Gen Xers, do have f*cks to give...just not to anyone who expects to get one.💜
Exactly
I actually have ZERO left to give. The ones I had were given and wasted.
Exactly.
We only ever had a few f*cks, and we save them for sh*t that actually matters.
Damn right
When we say we don't care it means we don't care about petty, unnecessary BS. I can't speak for all Gen X but for me it takes a whole lot to hurt my feelings because I just don't care. Now, my kids are a whole lot, they are my world and I care very very much.
Yep
Yes it's the way to avoid being controlled by other people's, self appointed, victimhood. Or Woke politics. Facts dont care about your feelings and all that.
Right?!
THIS. 💯💯 I said this same thing in another one of his videos. Glad someone else is saying it.
Daughter just got her wisdom teeth removed and send a picture. Before I remembered why she would look like someone beat her up I was getting ready to drive the 2 hours to her house in Dallas to find whomever hurt my 30 yr old daughter 😂
Dude, we care when it really matters. Globally, we had...USA For Africa, Live Aid, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the end of Apartheid, the fall of the Soviet Union and the Northern Ireland peace agreements just to name a few. But, we tend to not care at all about how anyone may feel regarding our own personal choices. BTW, I believe we coddled our own children due to collective PTSD from our own upbringings. We are proud about it now because we really are survivors to varying degrees. Fun one!
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This post is so spot on!! My husband and I coddled the sh!t out of our children. I always explained that after many things that I went through, I didn't want them to feel like an adult by 6. I wanted them to be children and enjoy their childhoods. I will admit that even though my grown children are great, kind-hearted, polite, loving people...... they are not tough enough. Now I worry about them. I feel like they are always one catastrophe away from a meltdown & that's not ok. Things that bother them seem so little to me. I'm thinking, just do A,B, and C to fix that and your good. What's the big deal. My children always tell me that I'm much stronger than they are. I guess that we really do need to find a happy medium. Nobody is perfect, but I did what I thought was right. I was strict about what mattered. I kept them safe. My husband and I discuss this often. We were married really young and we have always lived for others our entire lives. We still do way too much for our grown children. I'm gen x and I get told all of the time that I'm an empath. At first, I didn't even know what that was. I care a lot about people. When I see someone who is hurting, I airways wish that I could help them. Anyway, have a good one. Each generation has good and bad. It's interesting seeing the differences. I actually wouldn't change my childhood. It was hard, but the world was a better place, IMO. I have amazing parents as well. They are 82, and 80 now and have been married for almost 61 years. They did the best they could, as did my husband
and I. These videos are actually fun to watch. They bring back a lot of memories. I will say that generation X has an amazing work ethic. Our dad had us helping with everything in the yard and the house from a very young age. He worked 90 hours a week and our mom worked 2 jobs. We HAD TO help out. Now, the 5 of us go take care of our parents every single day. They deserve that. I hope that my husband and I get a much kindness and respect from our children as we get older and have our own health problems. 🙏🏻🤞🏻🫶🏻💪🏻
Exactly right! We care about the real things.
@@Goldie789 I am pretty sure that you will be well taken care of by your wonderful children. I also believe you may be surprised at their strength if ever really tested. I was ancient when I had my only child (37) so I had a little more time to heal than you, lol. Because of this, my kid is slightly less entitled than his peers and he can even read cursive, lol. However, he still seemed very soft for 21 years old. Then, earlier this year, when my FIL was dying and that kid of mine stepped up in ways I could not believe. Over several months, he spoke to nurses, helped arrange home health care equipment, changed his bedding, fed him, held his hand as he passed away, comforted my hubby and created the memorial video for the service. I could not believe it was my snowflake kid adulting like that! I would be willing to bet that your kids have strengths that even they don't know about yet; but they will surface when needs be. I am thankful for my childhood as well and I recognize the benefits it had on me in the long-term. I am also aware that it caused me to overcompensate with my own kiddo. This is why I try not to blame his generation too much...
You named things we witnessed and were TOLD to care about. Other than “we are the world” did you really care about the wall, apartheid?? We witnessed it but even then, most of us just didn’t give two shietsz
It’s not a joke. They actually came on the tv & said,” it’s 10pm, do you know where your children are?”
I remember that tv announcement. That was crazy
I was always the one sitting at home when that commercial came on ...... waiting for my mom to come home
@@jerireneeroberts1647that hit me hard. Not a good memory
@Flutterby123 we were definitely latchkey kids......
I always heard about that announcement, but I never saw it in person. I wonder when and where that was aired.
Older Gen X here. Our fault for overcorrecting and turning out these softies. I do care about real stuff. Just not nonsense. Moral: The world doesn't owe you anything! Don't need anything that you can't get for yourself. Be self-sufficient and strong.
That is so true and I feel so bad sometimes but we still don't know how they will turn out. Praying alot for my kids.
Gen X designs and builds an app, Gen Z is like how did you find us on this app?
Lol
Pretty much. This is why Gen Z is not very bright. No critical thinking skills at all and they think technology somehow started with them.
🤣🤣🤣 STOP HAHAA
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Shhhh, they’ll hear us
Hi!! 1972 here!! Sherri is definitely a great mouthpiece for us, she doesn’t mince words & has phenomenal clap back skills.
I don’t give a fck about what strangers think of me however I do care what my friends & family think & at my age they’ve given up any hope of me ever changing. When we say we have zero f’s to give it means we don’t care what people think about us. It doesn’t mean we lack empathy. I’ll show how much I care if you fck w my tribe. ❤❤
Gen x was 35 at 10. And we have been 35 ever since. We refuse to be not 35.
depends on the xer tbh. i still look like i'm in my 20s no surgeries. when in my 20s i got into the theaters for kids rates and had to show an id for adult😂.
I'm a GenX and I love GenZ. They are SO easy to mess with - so sensitive. I don't even have to try to get them upset. It's like they wake up upset - just on the verge of tears. I find that hilarious!
Dude! My son is gen Z, and he is so glad that I tempered him against this. He walks among his Gen Z friends like a gladiator. He makes them cry...I'm so proud.
My son is Gen Z and is not a whimp like most. He has no f's to give and I raised him to be that way. I love it.
@@americandee7721can define what a woman is.
@@ScotMayo420I doubt it
This is what participation awards and safe spaces did to them
We do have f*cks to give but supplies are limited. We must be selective as to who/what gets them.
Most of us Gen X parents would walk through fire for our kids...we love way harder than our parents ever loved us. I think so many of us tried to take the good stuff from our childhoods and passed them on to our kids. Yes I know some have dropped the ball on being parents but so many of us tried so hard to break the cycle of crap parenting. If I say I love you I mean it.
1965 Xer here. A lot of us were raised with the common phrase "Do you want me to give you something to cry about?" . You learned to control that stuff, at least in public. My cares are not flung out in every direction. We portion them out accordingly. What we won't ever care about is BS excuses and BS drama. Nobody took it from us, and we're not taking it from others.
Oh, and your comment about it being "cute" that GenXers are "learning" technology...WE INVENTED YOUR TECHNOLOGY... YOU'RE WELCOME.
Thank you!!! I was so offended when he said that. 😂
Facts!
I am literally an HPC engineer, and have been building the internet since the 80s. Who do they think built it, magical faeries?
And we taught Baby boomers, Millennials and Gen z how to use a computer.
I can still build computers. I'm the tech support in my family and had to repair so many issues. But, I refuse to replace the screen in my smartphone. I know my skill limits. 😂
Remember the original children of the corn was written about gen x kids. And sherri's right, cooking grilled cheese boxed Mac and cheese by the time I was 5 walked ourselves to school at the same time . Iwas watching my 2 yo brother by the time I was 6. By the time I was 8, I was practically my brother's mom, fixing his breakfast, making sure he did his homework, cleaning, cooking, etc. Yeah we were adults. Childhood is a myth to us
I hear ya. I was 7 and responsible for my 5 year old brother. I got my ass whooped if he did anything bad. My moms thinking was I was the oldest, I should know better. Whatever that meant lol.
I got yelled at because my brother (6), my boy cousin (4) decided to leave the mall because my cousin was bored. I was "supposed" to be watching them and my girl cousin (2). My girl cousin did something that needed my attention and they dipped out. Where was my mom and aunt you ask? In a store and didn't want us go into, because they were afraid we'd break something. I was 10 watching three kids, 2 were toddlers.😅
Totally. Oldest girl got you that role in the family.
Latchkey kid at 7. Looking after brother before and after school by 9. Cooking family meal by 10…🫤
And now I'm so independent I just do it myself, because I can't ask for help. But I do know basic mechanics (oil change, tires, battery). Plumbing, and patching drywall
I was sitting for my younger brothers for entire weekends when my parents went on trips at age 11. They'd leave Friday after I got home from school and not come home until late Sunday night. But I was watching them outside by the age of 8. My mother would be inside doing whatever and I'd be outside taking care of my brothers.
The lady with blue hair...She knows. 50yo GenXer here
Slim Sherri is awesome. Definitely worth checking her out.
I'm 52 and yeah becoming an adult is fine but growing up? Sorry, I got Peter Pan energy going on!😂😂😂
@@alexandersong72 Hell yeah I feel that
I am Gen X... I care what my wife thinks of me. I care about my kids. I care about my work. I care about the suffering I see all over the world. My daughter is in fact the reason I am alive. But I don't care what others think of me. We had the best music, we were feral. Tech grew up with us... We can handle no tech too because we spent our days outside. We got beat when we did things wrong and it's a badge of honor. You faced your punishment. I could buy my mother cigarettes. You came home when you heard the whistle. We are fiercely independent because we were forced to be, many of us are those that are actively breaking trauma cycles. The "I don't care" is our armor.
He's not speaking for Gen X'ers without kids. We a different breed 💩🙃
Nah, you're just weird.
Yeah... Don't play with those childless gen X. They don't suffer fools.
Or Gen Xer who only had one kid in late 30s as an oops. This little Gen Z, knows how to cook, clean, laundry at 12 and she was lone at 10. She was also learned to drive tractors at 10 years old and the minute she turn 16 she got her license in 15 minutes of a driving test because the Boomer tester said I wish I see more of this kid to me 😂😂. This little Gen Z is annoyed by her peers right now thinking they are complete emotional idiots. I guess this Gen Z was born in the wrong decade 😂😂😂😂
@@silverpurkatBless you!
Different breed is certainly a way of putting it.
Gen Z reminds me a mini Christopher Columbus’. You’re constantly rebranding, renaming, ordinary items that has been around for years. I was told that going “green” is in, meaning, when you’re finished with the sandwich bag or tin foil, just give it a good wash and reuse it again! That’s not called going green, it’s called being poor because you can’t afford to replenish it!
People have rebranded things to try to change how society thinks for at least the 20th century, and prob longer but I don't know about that. Listen to George Carlin joke about the progression of "shell shock" to "PTSD". With social media, it's plausible to think the constant chatter accelerated the same impulse and as older people we're even more irritated by the bombardment of younger folk telling us to change our words (and emoji choices)
Christopher Columbus!!! 😂 😂😂 I’m going to use this! 👏 👏👏
When I was 12 I was my parents full time baby sitter for which I received nothing not even a Thank you!...and I had a paper route.
I'm 47 (Gen X) and I have NO children.. So how's that empty nester logic work with someone like me? 🙄 Also, I know very few Genxers that have any problem navigating technology at all.. (We invented a lot of it.) I'm going to end this comment now so I don't hurt any little Gen Z oversensitive feelings by writing what I really think. ✌🏾
No worries my 56 yr old cousin only has animals. She doesn’t have patience for kids. How she can be in retail still scares me 😂
@persiascott2490 I guess it is similar to game face time. Funny comment.
Yup. We saw the growth of technology from pong to the amazing CGI of today. We learned BASIC in school and we're some of the first to grab smart phones. We rule!!
As a Gen Xer I can say we care about some things just not everything.
Boomers didn't raise me. They were my older siblings. I was raised by a Greatest Generation Dad and a Silent Generation Mom.
Gen x raised ourselves and our sibling's. We were only home when the street lights were on.
My husband (1970) has Younger Silent Gen parents. My (1979) parents are middle boomers.
I agree with him to a point. But I think our "we don't give a fuck" attitude resolves around ourselves, not those we care about. But when it comes to other people judging us? Yeah, we don't give a fuck!
I’m Gen X, I’m 59 (born in 1965), to say that we (Gen X) don’t care about anything or have zero F’s to give….. that’s not completely accurate. We care and give a F about our Family, our Children, and those we actually call friends. Other than that it becomes an individual thing, I personally care about my Daughter and Granddaughter, and my family, but If you aren’t Family, Blood, or a friend of mine I have no fk’s to give about you.
If it doesn’t effect me or my life directly, I can care less about it.
That’s not all because I’m Gen X though, I’m also a Cold War era Army Veteran, which has added to my already quirky attitude, and instilled me with a very dark sense of humor.
When someone starts 💩 with me I don’t throw insults and yell, I just start throwing down, don’t have time for BS. If there’s a problem then let’s handle it and get on with our day, or just stay out of my f’ing way.
I didn’t raise my daughter much different than how I was raised, though I was more active with her than my parents were with me. She turned out great, a bit too much like me, but still good.
Amen. GenX is human. We love our family and friends. We do care. BUT that is different than "giving a flying fuck." If our kid is hungry... we feed them. If our kid is vegan and coming to Thanksgiving... we don't give a fuck about the veganism. Just eat what you want. We're not changing the whole menu.
You gotta know what the terms mean. "You got sexually harassed at work? I'll kick his ass." But "Soneone at work wore a trump shirt and it made you upset? Fuck that... get back to work."
See... perspective.
dont forget though that a lot of the friends we had going into 2018 are no longer here, meaning a lot less f's to give, family can easily burn up thier allotted F quota, as for kids, sometimes, especially in the uk, its hard to allow your kids to have time to learn to grow now, can even get social services tell you "its a bit young to teach them cause and effect, your ruining thier childhood" when all you are doing is trying to teach them not to burn the house down, saying no is abuse and other such lunacy thats the current stance by governmental departments. Lets not even mention taking a minute to run the morning over in your head to figure where a mark came from, and by the time you remember that you didnt clip you hand in that stupid plastic clip this morning meaning you must have clipped you child instead, then check the clip size and yes its the mark, you end up with them riding your arse for 2 years or more .... some of us get to a point where we have to scream into the void occasionally each month not to go insane, and not because we care or empathise, but specifically because we know if it was us we would have been dead by thier age without cause and effect and the sheer willpower it gave us to shrug it off because if your parents found out you thought very much that, they would be NICE for the time you are ill, but the following months, the nice wouldnt stop.
Thank you for your service.
You make a point about being selfish. Some people care about others who are not part of their family or circle and some people don't. I'm glad to be a Gen X'r who cares about the community and really -the well being of all humans. I also don't believe in resorting to violence when offended, now that I'm an adult.
💗 when a gen x says they don't give a f*ck, ask yourself what's the subject being talked about. Because maybe it just that whiney asses feelings or opinion we don't give a f*ck about.
My brother and I are Gen X. He would get so mad at the younger generations. My niece who is Gen Z, has a great work ethic because of him. I can't believe she will be 20 in January.
8:55 I love her, she is so witty, she tells our gen-z perfectly, she raises her children to be independant, and no snowflakes.
No millennial I know has a problem with a thumbs up.
I'm young GenX, 45. I had boundaries for the way I raised my kids (who are adults now) - I didn't care about the stuff that didn't affect me and that didn't hurt them. I didn't yell and scream over a messy room the way my parents did, but I did insist on clear egress to a door in case of fire and if they lost something I wasn't helping them find it. I let them loose on their bicycles to freely roam after teaching them how to read the signal lights on cars and rules of the road. If there were natural consequences to their behavior I let them experience it - I didn't give rides for missed school buses or bring forgotten homework to school. I said No only when something did affect me or would be harmful to them. I gave them choices (that I could live with) but nonetheless, "because I said so" was not in my vocabulary, to spite the way it had been the only thing my parents said.
Buuuut, I also cared deeply. I made sure their brains and bodies got exercise and fun during school breaks, unlike how I was locked up alone in the house with the TV as my babysitter. I made sure their birthdays were celebrations of them - they wore handmedown clothes most of the year but got a whole new outfit for their birthday. I showed up to their recitals the way my folks hadn't. I cared politically, and took my kids to Occupy Wall Street and other protests and rallies, and had them participate when I voted by mail at home. I didn't ask them about their grades, I asked them what was the most fun or interesting thing they did in school that day.
My kids were raised in the same way… outside of the political stuff, though we do talk about it nowadays.
I love my kids. When they move out, i am closing the curtains, locking the doors, and enjoying the silence.
It may be a predictable irony that the hardships Gex X faced made us strong - but by overcompensating & shielding our own kids, we inadvertently created a mentally/emotionally weaker Millennial generation
‘73 Gen X mom of Gen Z child who I care more about than my own life. I care about equality & humanity in general. As for the petty & childish things that people get so obsessed with - could not care less. As for other people’s opinions on my life choices, I could not care less. 🤷🏻♀️
@@stormeart ALL FACTS 💯
We were raised to not care, or share emotions, but mess with my family and I would go to jail for the rest of my life if that's what it took to protect them. Outside my family... don't really care what people think about me. Doesn't mean I don't care about people, just not what they think about me. I wouldn't stand by and let you kick a dog, or pick on a kid or elderly person. My trigger to decide who I care about can change in a heartbeat.
That dude was the one we put at the end of the ramp cuz we didn’t care if the bike landed on his face 🫶
At fifty I realize the real problem with my generation is we actually care a lot. We see the younger generation not only self destructing but trying to take our society with them and it breaks our hearts because we believe in bigger things as well as ourselves that actually matter to our daily lives and the future lives of our children...
I love to watch TheRealSlimSherry content, as an GenX myself, my mom always told me as a kid that the world is unkind places and if you are not careful it will chew you up and spit you out. It's not we don't care but, I think really only care about our families or close friends and as for other people we don't know we try to stay in our own lane.
Because we all have problems and not one generation is different from another beside age, because GenX knows how to deal with their problems, unlike the younger generation.
As an earlier Generation Xer. We're tired of the spoiled kids who think they are entitled to everything
and think the world revolves around them and a lot of them don't even have empathy.
Slim Sherry is my all time favorite Generation Xer. She speaks the truth of how we grew up.
As an Older Generation Xer I can tell you she totally is spot on. Generation X does care up to a point.
There are some things we don't care about and it depends on what it is. So yeah we do care about certain
things. What we don't care is what people think of us and a few other doozies. Empathy from a Generation Xer
also depends on who it is and what it is.
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As one of the younger Gen-Xers (Much as I hate to admit my age) and without kids or marriage, I will say this: I care about those who care about me. My pack, the loyal, and anyone who shows respect to others. That goes for people regardless of their generation to me. Everything else about Gen-X I 100% agree with though. Childhood was a bitch. lol Love your reactions, keep up the good work. :)
Baby Boomer here. We weren't locked out of houses; our houses weren't locked. In my neighborhood, we didn't start locking our houses until I was 12 and then, only because some freak was stealing ladies' panties off the wash lines.
We are going to have so much fun in the old folks' homes. Who is going to sneak in our liquor?
I'm organizing a rave weekly 😁
You don’t need to sneak it in.
My kids will help us out. 😂
We're screwed. No care homes for us, because who would run them? Gen Y (yeah I said it) and Z? Oh lord help us. We're not getting our diapers changed.
@@joob40 I know several GenZs that are responsible, good, kind and hardworking. All hope is not lost. We just see the worst online.
Lady in blue explained my life legit, I literally lived a whole summer off blueberry pop tarts until my crap turned blue 🤣. I was partying with adults when I was 14 by the time I was 20 I was a fully fledged adult with a daughter and a household 🤣🤣🤣
I'm 45.That last guy wasn't completely right. We care about family and friends. Everyone else can get stuffed. And we don't care about stupid BS.
I'm a young millennial and send 👍 all the time
Honestly, you can only learn a small amount about GenX from videos which are the mild censored and abridged version of how we really are. To truly know a Genxer, you need to actually talk with them, earn the right to hang out with them (GenX we only hang out with those who've earned that right and those GenX that haven't, there's a reason why they've been isolated from the rest of us. One online place to do this is also certain games, a number of GenX still play specific online games in which the attitude they've had as a kid definitely comes out in these games. An obscure one but one that has a good chance of getting to know a Genxer is MajorMUD, a BBS based MUD that's been around since'94. Another one and even younger generations in the game have a similar attitude and mentality as GenX is Eve Online but with that one you will want to get into a heavily PvP alliance of older players. Fair warning though, this is a very unforgiving, cruel, and harsh game in which there's been battles that have thousands of concurrent players in a single fight from all over the world.
Now we do care about certain people, those who not only earned our respect but who we actually like as a person. In these cases if they're in a need of help and even with some strangers. We'll be there for the person but if they mess that up or don't take our advice we let them fail as a learning experience or just walk away from them (the reason why certain GenXers have been isolated from the rest of us).
What was said about jobs, some kids had jobs at 6-7 years old in the 80s and earlier. Paperboy wasn't just a game in the 80s it was an actual job that kids did before they were 10 and what that game was based off of. I myself would do work at a company my parents owned starting at the age of 5-6 years old. I'd also be working alongside the other employees at the company and got to know many of them from that. Kids would be working at fastfood restaurants and bagging groceries at markets at 12-14 years old. Even babysitting and lemonade stands for us was an early form of work we did to earn a little extra cash. Younger kids did lemonade stands while older kids did the babysitting, these were usually done by older kids in the neighborhood such as the older sister of a friend.
Those public announcements on TV"Do you know when your kids are" were real and in fact it was certain celebrities from major films and TV shows saying it.
There's also a reason why we cared for our kids differently than how we were raised. Slim Sherry even brought this up, both other people of younger generations and because of certain laws, if we did do the things that our parents did in raising us, we'd be arrested and in jail for it along with facing losing custody of them due to this.
Been in Eve since 2004, small group of us older gamers. Agree, we care when it matters.
@@TheGrannyGoat and when the devs or others try changing things especially with P2W, you don't mind going on a complete bloodbath in the game until things are fixed. I played Eve Online on and off since 2004, last alliance I was in was Explicit Alliance until it disbanded in 2018.. I played a some after that in high sec but that was due to most of my time dealing with RL and not being able to dedicate time to an alliance.
@@desmien679 Been busy this year and not in game much, but I keep a couple of my accounts training. Yeah, sometimes you wonder what they were thinking, or smoking, when they make changes! Not been in an alliance for ages so I don't have that worry. We do try to avoid high sec as much as possible, it's crazy trying to play there.
@@TheGrannyGoat I do know that there's a big issue of the Chinese server migration and since then along with starting with 2020 a huge problems with changes in the game one of which is that insurance doesn't cover losses in high sec systems. This was after the release of the mobile version Eve Echoes which prevents PvP in high sec. They're trying to get players from mobile games to play Eve Online and I definitely know that even hardcore PvP gamers have quit the game due to also trying to bring in P2W mechanics which has flooded the mobile version
When we Gen X'ers say we don't care, we are saying we don't care about people. We certainly don't give 2 F'cks about pronouns, or whose feelings are hurt by, well almost anything! If we didn't like something we didn't watch it, listen to it or go to it! Why? Because we don't care! We were tough enough to know that some douche saying something about you wasn't the end of the world! We are not whiny, over-sensitive, nuts that think they need therapy every time they don't get their way in life! We just pull of big boy/girl pants on and continue! We just can't believe how sensitive is now about everything! We lost our Aunt Jemima bottles because they were deemed insensitive by the younger generations. Am I right guys?? 😂
No lies told. 😊
Only boomers whine about that. Boomers are actually the worst generation. They got everything and still whine about things that don't concern them. Who cares about pronouns, we all have them. Who cares if someone is transitioning? It's not your concern unless you're financially responsible. Who cares if a woman across the world or country needs or wants an abortion? It's not your body and not interfering with your life, and don't get me started with the white privileged man in his 70s who can't handle that society is not like it was 50 years ago, and whine for the good old days. There's a reason they're called the good old days. They're done and never coming back. Boomers need to get over themselves.
You seem a little sensitive about it all though.
Eh, I mean I care enough to be respectful of what someone else wants to be called 🤷🏻♀️ I don't care about my own pronouns lol I think that we (gen x) were not big on everyone having labels and today kids want to label everything and be part of a certain group to feel different than everyone else maybe? I'm not sure exactly why. Oh and if someone needs therapy please do, no shame there at all!
66 Gen X Brit here..knew how to cook at 7,walked to school unaccompanied ,latch key kid, Tv 3 channels that closed at midnight ,power cuts ,lock on the phone,fend for yourself if you injured yourself Dettol was your friend…oh those were the days
People need to stop confusing the Boomers with GenX.
That dude that said he was a whistleblower obviously had a rough childhood. Or he is actually the 1st year of a millennial spy.
In defense of my boomer parents I must say they taught us the value of hard work and how to be fiercely independent
yes we struggle with the rapid expansion of big brother because we have had the wonderful experience of a little personal privacy.
When we say we don't give a f*** we mean we don't care about the stupid sh*t like other people's opinions. We lived through the AIDS crisis and lost nearly a whole generation of lgbtq peope, we saw kids dying of famine and raised millions to help, we have empathy where it's needed and where its deserved.
GenX built the internet, son. Look up "emoticons". We were doing it in the 90s. :-)
Facts. But emoticons were mostly 80's and early 90's. Emojis became main stream in the early to mid 90's. I used both.
@@unrulyarcana2394 emojis didnt go into use until the 2000s. Nothing was coded to use them natively until then. ( they're just teeny images ). They didnt really take off until smartphones.
Unless you happen to live in Japan, they didnt really get popular until after 2007.
Gen-X checking in.... Yeah, we do care about our loved ones and are empathetic for those in our community. 💗 It's when people resort to name calling or clutching their pearls over something. Get the fuck over yourselves... we don't need to "go put on our big boy pants".. We are always ready to rock and roll any day, any time. ☮💜🎶
50yr old Gen X here. And don't let old boy fool you..... Yes, we care about our own kids. We just don't give a fuck about everybody else. And shawty talking bout the thumbs up emoji can go play in traffic blindfolded.
😂😂😂
As a gen x'er driving down the highway, I'm gonna aim for shawty😂
@@paulfernandez3747How many points for a blindfolded Gen Z'er?
@@annmariering6606triple
Ok, so I agree with both of them. We care a lot about people we love. I don’t give a crap about other people and what they think about me. My kids will try and stop me every time from saying things in public, telling me to shush and that’s rude but I tell them “ I don’t care. I will never see these people again in my life and if I do I will never hang out with them”
Eeh, I care about everyone. When they have real struggles. Not this soft stuff, and not what they think of me.
Lol Look I know most of this stuff is satire, but I want to just clear up one thing. I don't really believe that our parents "didn't want to see us" but they were just exhausted. Gen X was really the first generation where both the parents were working outside the home whether by choice or by necessity. And the idea of "childcare" was really just starting to become a thing back then. Mostly there was just teenage babysitters if you could afford to pay one. And if not, then you gave your kids a house key so they could let themselves in when they got home from school. Then you told them to either play outside till you got home, or for some it was stay in the house till we get home. So you had to grow up a little faster and become more independent. Parents sometimes had to leave for work before it was time for you to go to school, so you had to get yourself to school and best believe your parents would call sometimes to make sure you made it there too. I used to get up with an alarm clock every morning, take a shower, get my 2 little brothers up, make coffee, drink a cup of coffee, and get the 3 of us to the bus stop when it was time. Then we let ourselves in when we got home and did our chores and homework till the parents got home. Then we went outside till dinner time, ate dinner, got ourselves ready for bed while our exhausted parents sat on the couch watching tv and winding down, told our parents goodnight, and went to bed. Then wake up, rinse, repeat. Our parents loved us, they were just trying to figure out a world where you have kids but you both have to work outside the home. This is why I've been a SAHM with all 4 of my children and wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah, we have to sacrifice that extra income and do without frivolous things we might want sometimes, but my hubby makes enough to pay the bills and keep the kids in clothes and shoes and give them most of what they want. My 2 teenagers both got jobs as soon as they turned 16 and honestly I think they'll be better off for it and may not have done it if we were more well off and they were super spoiled all the time. Now they'll have that job experience and work ethic already instilled before they turn 18. That's more than I can say for most kids I see these days. Everyone is different and makes their own choices when it comes to parenting and that's ok. I think our parents did the best they could with what they knew at the time. And now we do the same.
As Gen X'er I don't feel like I need social media . People show only what people want us to see and that isn't the truth, so much more happens that we don't see. We understand that. I really believe we are the last generation to understand the point of privacy, We don't share everything. It's true we really don't care. We don't care to be fake. we don't care what other's think of us. We have to authentically us or life doesn't work for us. IMO
Loads of empathy lives within this Gen Xer. The more experience you have, the more you care, and know what can happen. Caring too much is true, but, in my case not ashamed to talk about it.
Oh us Gen Xers really don’t give 2 shits about what strangers say about us; but if they say something about our loved 1s, they will be ripped to shreds. Whether that be verbally or physically all depends on how much we ache!
Our mental health treatments either involved a straight jacket or (most commonly) listening to R.E.M.s “Everybody Hurts” on continuous repeat for a week.
Gen X adapts to the changing platforms as we always did
I'm an older gen X (born in early 1968).
We care about our kids but not much else
I'm on the millennial border of gen x and we grew up free range and it made us tough as nails. Words don't hurt anymore. Those of us that were bullied were terrorized in a way the younger people would never get.
Me too born 88
IDC and IDGAf are totally different things
I appreciate your interest in our generation. The 70s and 80s were a great time to come of age. It makes me sad that my daughter couldn't experience what I did. I've never been able to use the phrase, "Go out, and play."
Gen X being pushed out again? Stop appropriating our music, movies, actors and fashion, because that's the only reason you know about us. You can definitely take back tik tok. Please. Whoever that guy is, he's in the minority. Our relationships are important but we just don't care about being defined by Millenials, Gen Z or especially Boomers. Gen A are the future.
Gen X: we dgaf about "likes" or approval. We care about plenty of other important things.
We care if it’s bad circumstances, we are people/ human beings . We don’t care if it’s poor decision making / self inflicted. “You made your bed , now lay in it” that’s how we were raised .
💗 As a gen Xer I really enjoy your videos. Everything they are saying is absolutely true. Only difference for me was that I'm a gen x from New York City and we drank out of the fire hydrant instead of the garden hose. 🤷♀️🙅♀️💪🏽
Gen X here (58 years old). We honestly don't truly give a F*CK! Don't be fooled, and definitely don't play yourself with one of us. 😉
I am 50 and we created the GenZ because of our caring too much, but most of what your videos mention is true. We were raised to fend for ourselves and take up for ourselves.
I will be 50 on Sunday and yes she’s right… I was born and raised in Detroit and my father would regularly tell me to go play on 8 mile… And he was right too because McDonald’s was across eight Mile in Southfield and no, I never met Eminem 😂. BTW, congratulations grandpa…
And 30 years later, we lived off of eight Mile in Harper Woods …and yes I told my kids to go play on 8 mile 😂😂😂😂
ah, memories….
Because tradition😂 😂😂
Sup! I’m downriver.
My great grandparents lived just north of 8 mile… down the street from a Burger King in Warren. I know the area well.
Hi Older gen X Australian here, everything in this video that was pointed out about us was absolutely spot on. i actually felt very surprised and validated at hearing that some of us are only alive fr our children. A lot of our childhoods were truly brutal as was a lot of others, because the Gen X lady's account of her history was the norm, say the Median between 1 and 100, then at least 49% percent of us were totally at risk of real annihilation either by self or by parents and/or the medical industry (Post war Eugenics (Nazism) ideology in the western medical industry was rampant - Hitler and Mussolini were the poster boys for the west in that era) at any moment in time. That we survived into adulthood to have kids of our own is truly miraculous. We became the hovering parents to counter the depraved neglect of ours.
Walked to school alone when I was in kindergarten.
And yes, Mom did tell us to go play in the street.
As for that guy who said Gen X was making up for our shitty childhoods with our kids? I think he was talking about The Greatest Generation.
Our childhoods were so much better than those poor GenZ sods can even imagine, lol. We were FREE, we had FUN. Ni bubble-wrap, though.
And we did play in the street. I played football and kickball in the street. And roller skated, and rode my bike all over town.
Gen X care about important things. Buying homes, working, paying bills not about hurting peoples feelings.
Gen x definitely parented with more empathy that's why yall still in our houses. Our parents dumped us out into adulthood very early. And furthermore we over here doing inner child work, shadow work, learning pronouns and what not.
9:14 The reason we want to know where our kids are is that we know what happens out there when no parent knows what’s going on. We absolutely loved our freedoms. It wasn’t until I had kids that I thought “no f…ing way is any of that shit happening to my kids” (Gen X, ‘69)
👍👍👍👍👍 GenX'68 here... IDGAF what other people think, same goes for creative pronouns. 🖕
Where do I find my people? So disappointed with all the gen x'ers around me, taking on the gen z delusions and victimology.
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1978 here, we don't really care about a lot of things but the one we do is our kids, he was right on that, but, everyone else's BS not so much. And I don't know about anyone else but I absolutely know what I'm doing when the kids start moving out! Freedom! Say what I want without hurting feelings, doing what I want without worrying what child is around the corner, yep, I know who I am and what I will be doing thank you very much 😂
Well Duh'.... as a Gen Xer... of course we care about our kids. It's everyone else we don't give a shit about
That last guy is right. We do care. We just don't want the world to know it. We grew up stifling our feelings, so acting like we don't care became second nature. We care deeply about the things that truly matter. The rest... Not so much.
GenX empty nesters are simply doing their thing now that the kids are gone. I'm doing a phd, get ready for some wisdom. We're either making money or taking a break.
Addressing the “people are more perverted ….etc. “ statement. People have ALWAYS been effed up and horrible, we just know about it faster and with more detail now. The world has always been weird and scary, it’s just nobody talked about it.
I'm gen x and I'm 45. What do you mean 60 years?
The oldest gen x person was born in 1965
@@wendiwasden7088Yeah, but even the oldest, those born in 1965, aren't 60 yet ... though they're getting close.
When Gen X says they don't care, it just means they don't care about the petty stuff and the drama.
Gen Z and Alpha or whatever you call them is waaay too sensitive, they need to grow some balls i'm tellin ya!! I love this woman! ❤ and yes, of course we care, we're just totally pissed off with gen Z's and Alpha's or whatever you call them attitude, ignorance and entitlement! The world is going insane!!!
I know!! 36 millennial here , It ticks me off when my kids stand there and cry for absolutely no reason and I have to scream at them to stop or I'll make them cry for real. I swear to God it's the internet teaching them this crap , I don't get it. I've also noticed they act so much younger. I have a 12 and 16 year old and they both still throw fits like little kids. I'm waiting for them to grow up a little bit but I feel like it will never happen! Fyi I'm not that nice and I don't baby them I really have no idea where it comes from.
We do care about our family and things that make sense. We don’t care BS!!!! We don’t have time for foolishness! Real talk!
Gen-X's have effs to give. We just don't dole them out like participation trophies. We don't care for a lot, but what we care for, we care a lot.
We did babysit when we were 10. Mowed lawns with push mowers etc and earned money. Ask our parents for money? 🤣😂😆
As a Gen X, the thumbs up emoji is nothing more then a fonzi emoji.
And Selwin Frogit 😂
GenX here {1968} NOTE: We DO NOT CARE about your crying, complaining, etc. Life is a B, Deal with it. Also, I have been an empty nester for 4 years. Enjoying every minute of it. Did I invest in my children. YES. Did I do things to 'makeup for my childhood"? Yep. My adult children do NOT have GRIT like us GenXrs. {Sadly.} Hard times create tough people. And the Mills and GenZs have not a clue and no GRIT. What those two Generations are complaining about are 1st world problems which means no problems. Like, a 5 days work week is just too much. Or I can't afford to buy a house while they buy their special Lattes, watch their streaming services, and party every weekend. Try toughing it out, get two jobs, save some money, stop buying on credit, and hunker down. How do you think we did it.
I (GenX) use the thumbs up emoji at work all the time. I think I'm going to adopt this new meaning. Slim Sherri was spittin' Fire.
Gen-X (1967) here. We care about our circle. Everyone else can 👍🏼. We don’t care about your childish drama.
I want to expose one thing nobody talks about. There are some first and second year Gen Z that go online trying to larp as Gen X. That's when you see older looking people getting all emotional about something.
That some of us are only alive because of our children thing is so real.
I’m an old GenX or young Boomer, depending on the chart you see. I have 3 kids that I will do anything for. But I raised them to be independent, like I was raised. They were allowed to roam. But they were taught to do right. When they were ready to go out on their own, I didn’t helicopter them. But when they needed to be rescued, I was there ASAP & I have driven all night to get each one, at one time or another.
I care, I have empathy. Just not for nonsense. I’m that person that tells you to grow tf up. And as for what other people think of me? Lol, nah! 😂. My DIL asked if I wanted to go to her church so I could meet some people. I said no, I’ve met people before. I wasn’t impressed. 😂.
My oldest tries to take care of me now 😊
2 are near me, 1 in NYC on her own. She was told by some that NY would chew her up & spit her out. But she’s been there doing good for 3 yrs She can be fearless bc she knows I’ll come if she needs me. My dad was the same - do what you want but call if you need me. It gave me strength just knowing he was there. He gave me what I gave my kids - independence.