GenXers - We're officially forgotten.
Sorry GenXers, To The Media, You're Invisible
Link to tweet
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/01/sorry-genxers-media-youre-invisible
Yay! Our invisibility cloaks are working!
Our grungy angst long behind us we're the solid earners, homeowners and parents of Millennials and GenZers. While many of us have been supplementing our Boomer parents retirements, realizing it means we may never retire ourselves, we've also been rising (silently) to positions of power in business and politics. We're a small generation sandwiched in between two much larger and louder ones. We saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end to apartheid. We entered the business world in the dot com era, and learned caution as a result. We're as tech savvy as millennials but don't self-promote as much as a whole on social media. We like a lower profile.
We're not really silent, but we're easily forgotten it seems.
I lift my latchkey in salute to all my fellow forgotten GenXers. To our being overlooked I say, whatever. We prefer to work independently and undisturbed anyway.
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Hurray GenX! 
If nothing else, we're adaptable. 
We were all connected via our music. It was an amazing era to come of age in. To this day I still say life is always better with a soundtrack. 
He doesn't exist. There were no births and the world waited patiently for the millennial generation. 
We're a generation in stealth mode. Don't blow our cover.
It's been assimilated into Boomers it seems. 
Although the VERY tail end (1980). I have more in common wtih someone born in 1982 (my sister) than I do with someone born in 1970.
I don't remember the Challenger. I remember nothing about Reagan and the only thing I remember about HW is that he would not eat broccoli. Instead of rocking out to the great music of the 80s and 90s, my mom was playing nursery rhyme songs in the car. I had no idea who Kurt Cobain was until the day he died when people at school were talking about him. How does that define me in the generation?
On the flip side, someone born in 1997 is technically a millennial, even though that puts them at 4 when 9/11 happened therefore they most likely only know of it as a historic event (as opposed to remembering exactly where they were when it happened). (I'd say people born after 1994-5 probably don't remember 9/11).
I'm a fan of these micro generations (I fall into one myself-- sometimes called 'Xennials' or 'Oregon Trail Generation"
. Because people had similar experiences. Just like my dad (1949) and uncle (1961) have the same parents but vastly different experiences growing up.
...I only brought it up because I found it amusing the generation widely regarded as forgotten has now been forgotten from a list of forgotten generations. Their failure is complete 
But as for the existence of Gen Jones, I think an argument could be made that they are distinct from the Boomers. If they did not have WWII vets for parents and did not suffer the threat of compulsory service in Vietnam, then I think their life experiences would be significantly different from those who did. Perhaps sufficiently enough to warrant a separate generation.
A number of demographers used 1964 as a cutoff due to 1965 being when the SCOTUS made it a requirement for all states to allow birth control (for "married" women... 
).
Griswold v Connecticut
The Pill was approved for use in 1960 so you start to see a drop-off not long after.
Nah, they're just snobs. 
What I find strange is my parents have always considered themselves baby boomers and they were born in 1942 and 1945 respectively. I don't think they really identify with being part of the silent generation.
Since were invisible we are basically ghosts.
We've been focused and driven and we've helped create change in our children. 
I hate that it's sped up from the album version, but it's the official vid, so ...
Willingness would claim us ... we got NO WAR TO NAME US ...
This song was before 'Gen X' was coined ...
fave verse:
the ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
and visit their graves on holidays at best
the ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please
if there's any consolation
i don't begin to understand it
Also, Strangeways ... is freaking awesome
Not even an original Gen name.
Leave me alone and let me get my stuff done in peace.
That should definitely be our motto!
However, since we've been erased I think we're absolved from all guilt now.
The backlash was a generation even larger than the Boomers.
Invisibility has its privileges.
...
While everyone else is distracted elsewhere, were in stealth mode making things happen.
We’re just gonna sit there and watch it burn!
Sung to:
We didn't get to be GenXers by actually caring about shit
in the house, yo!
