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I'm gen-x according to you. When I was younger there were none of these divisive nomenclatures. They're stupid and harmful, the same as every stereotype, and anyone who uses them is a gullible fool
90% of people I know, from teenagers to pensioners, are lovely, interesting, amazing folk, and their age has as much to do with that as the colour of their skin
You should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating divisiveness
I'm likely older than you and there's always been generational name calling and judging.
Society-dependant I suppose. Doesn't make it any less toxic
It's descriptive. Do you want to use paragraphs to name a group of similar people, or a word? " The people born between x and y exhibiting these behaviors and traits, or have been imprinted by these traits, though it is not as strict rule," or "generation x."
And yes, we are also allowed to critique people based off of these things. It's how life works. It's how we grow and change.
Vis a vis, a stéréotype
Keep 'em divided and angry at eachother!
Say you make a new invention. Are you going to give it a name, or are you going to use a description each time?
What about if you have kids. Are you going to name your kid a long winded description of their lineage, or something short?