The boomers have lost all respect

"Ok Boomer" means "that's nice, now go sit down grandpa, the adults who live in realityare talking"

The secret ingredient is lead poisoning. The Baby Boomer generation spent over half their lives sniffing leaded gasoline fumes.

This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”

My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.

And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??

After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

Only I'm not a boomer dumbass, and I am right.

Check your facts, and stop trying to dismiss other people's statements out of hand just because you think they're a certain age.

Logical fallacy much?

Note: I'm not responding to OP directly, but instead to everyone who's ever called me a fucking boomer!

I was told the other day by someone younger than me that saying "okay boomer" is cringe now. The new hot hip fan-didly-tastic slang is "unc status" or "aunt status", apparently. Means the same thing, but in sleek Gen-Z packaging.

The hardship Boomers had was mostly far away and hypothetical. They grew up with the constant threat of nuclear war.

The old Star Trek episode "Gary Seven" has an interesting take on this. Boomers expected that civilization would end before they got to adulthood. Then it didn't, and they had no idea what to do with themselves.

Then they come to a time when they're resented by both their parents and their children. The Greatest Generation was horny after the war and literally fucked the Boomers into existence, but realized too late that they didn't actually like having children. Boomers treated their children the way their parents treated them. Gen X sorta puts up with it, but Millennials aren't having it.

Other than that, capitalism knew by the 1950s that if they push the working class too hard, they'll revolt. Better to back off the money printer a little to make sure we can keep running it for as long as possible. And so the working class could have a reasonably comfy life doing the same trades for their whole working life (provided they were white). Over time, capitalism found that it can keep a working class revolt from happening by dividing the working class against each other; racism and religion works pretty well. Then it was time to overclock the money printer.

I'm 45, so not a boomer but already too old to get any respect from people in their 30's (90% of my colleagues for example). Simply speaking about something they didn't experience (reading a map, installing an OS, meeting the love of your life without a dating app...) gets me a "Ok Boomer" each time so what do I do? I just shut the fuck up. I'm not worried, they'll be in my position very quickly.

I feel like “having it easier” can be relative. I definitely have it easier than my grandmother who is a black woman born in the late 1930s who only has a high school education. I’ve even had an easier life than my parents in many ways, even if they did achieve the “American Dream”. I may not be able to afford a house right now, but everything else has been easier as a whole so far. I’m in the USA, so we’ll see how the rest of it goes.

ETA: spelling

They have it backwards. Young people think old people had it easy. This is their justification for not trying. Truth is every generation has it's challenges. Rather than turn to social media for validation, look for information. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for everyone but if you're facing a challenge, someone before you faced the same. Don't listen to those who tell you not to try. Listen to folks who succeeded, what worked, what didn't.

PS The only derogatory I can say about the young generation as a whole is, where the fuck is your rock and roll? You're listening to your grandparent's music. Lame.

And then it got appropriated and misused so that anything, even perfectly reasonable statements like "you should be cleaning your butthole when you shower" by literally anybody even 27 year old men, gets a response of "okay boomer".

Can also be used to refer to a boomer who seems surprisingly OK.

Slurs, contrary to popular belief, do have some utility

"I haven't learned how to communicate with people that have different ideas than me so I just come up with new slurs to call them!"

-post gets 10 to 1 upvotes somehow.

I guess it's to be expected. Boomers were raised in pure bliss, spent half their lives relatively stress-free. Everything was easy and cheap. When you live an easy life, you get used to being dumb, uninformed and lazy. The same would have probably happened to all zoomers in the same situation.

Note that this is mostly specific to North America, Western Europe, Japan and maybe a few other countries. Pretty much everywhere else boomers aren't all that different from zoomers, save for regular intergenerational differences.