Thread by @jfruh

i have decided that the incredibly specific hill i'm going to die on is that obama is gen x under the original definition of the term and was still being referred to as such in 2008

https://twitter.com/rameswaram/status/1363957878160121857

although this article from 1990 doesn't use the phrase "gen x," it was actually very important in The Discourse abt defining the post-baby boom generation and the birthdate range under discussion here is 1961-1972! rolfpotts.com/time-twentysom…

yeah, part of it is that obama is about halfway between me and springsteen, but i do genuinely think someone his age has more in common in terms of cultural touchstones w/me than w/springsteen

https://twitter.com/jfruh/status/1363959950167351296

i hate the phrase "generation jones" but this makes sense to me -- so much of boomer pop culture/discourse was around vietnam and the '60s counterculture and the backlash thereto. for ppl who were born in the '60s wold have a very diff relationship to that

anyway, i myself may be biased as my parents were aborn in 1946-48 and thus are early wave boomers. in conclusion, if you're mad at "boomers" 9 times out of 10 you're just mad at old, comfortable people, and as an incipient old person i urge you to embrace this disticntion