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I sometimes think about how a 20 year old in the Ludlow Massacre would be a grandparent to a boomer, and hearing them talk about bad unions are and how good corporations are, after you witnessed a company and the federal government murder children over a labor dispute, would be insanely triggering.
This is exactly the gist of most conversations my dad had with his. I remember hearing my dad say the stuff I heard 24/7 and thought was normal. I remember the look my grandpa would get on his face, I didn’t know what that face meant at the time. I’ve figured it out in the decades since
My grandfather supported his family through the great depression and put himself through medical becoming very well respected in our moderate sized community. He and my grandmother raised seven children going from boomers to early gen x. I remember a fee years after I was able to drink and grandma had passed away we were sharing a quiet drink during the holidays. He looked at me unprompted and said "I don't know where Grace and I went wrong with them but I'm sorry."
Wow, absolutely heartbreaking. Regarding the internet and one of the good things about out it, I feel like it’s so important to read and learn about all of the different generations and how they were raised so that I have as much knowledge as I can to try and do better with my kids.
They survived the Great Depression and world wars and wanted to give their kids the charmed life they never had. So they created a bunch of spoiled monsters. I’m not sure they even noticed what kind of terrible people they were creating.
i think my nana was pretty blind to how much of an asshole my dad is. he and his brother used to throw fits over skippy peanut butter, which was more expensive than she wanted, so she found an old jar and put regular peanut butter in it. like that's how far she went to appease them as kids. they both suck
I honestly thought that was a joke at first. Just innocuously sprinkled in the middle of the list there as if it isn't taken right out of some kind of fascist speech
Both sets of my grandparents and my great grandparents who were still alive while I was growing up in the 70s and 80s were very disappointed with my parents and weren’t hesitant to confront them on what’s now called Boomer behavior.
This made me think of my late grandma (born 1922) calling my uncle (born mid-1950s, not sure what year), “a pain in the ass!” Hahaha. She knew what was up.
My silent gen grandma told me that both her and grandpa before he died thought that my mother 'could be very selfish'.
Whenever I complain about my mother, my grandma says I should blame her instead because she raised her, so it must be her fault even if she doesn't know what she did wrong.
My PawPaw once apologized to me for how they handled me growing up and actually said the words that my mother (his daughter) didn’t “have the faculties” to do better. I remember thinking at the time, I was about early 20s, that he was being kinda mean….but he was right. WW11 Navy, I miss him every day.
>advocating for free speech that allows evil people to triumph
Just going to point out that if free speech only protects the speech you like, or more accurately in your usage what the establishment likes, then free speech doesn't exist. Period.
What you believe in is only speech approved by those in power is allowed. Pro-tip: you aren't in power.
Same as others, WWII grandpa whose mind still functioned and lived to be like 98 I think, at the end of his life he got really into angry right wing talk radio after being basically a socialist his whole life. His boomer kids were deeply confused by this but I told them that it made sense to me --not the politics but the anger.
He saw everything go to shit while his lib boomer kids were like "Aw it's fine, what are you so mad about, everything's going great!" in this abrasively naive way. I told them I related to the anger and just wished there was a non bigoted way for him to see that feeling validated, because to me, the feeling made sense. He was angry watching every point of commerce become a predatory scam, for instance. Or watching development drive people out of his town and turn it into like a crappy tourist resort. He developed really incoherent political views because there was no coherent media reflecting his anger--at the time it was just a choice between CNN style "Everything's Fine!" or Fox style bigoted rage.
By contrast, my other grandma is still alive (she's 94) and she's got some wild senior moments going on but she does like to make fun of her kids generation by grinning and mumbling, "Poor widdwe orphan". It's mean but I appreciate that she never loses composure no matter what happens and doesn't indulge in the boomer tendency to throw tantrums. She's pretty passive aggressive but never ever gets heated about anything which is a big contrast to how boomers I know act.
My grandma hated and resented my Dad from the day he was born. In her eyes he never did anything right and was guilty of the highest crime imaginable, being a man. She always made up stories about him and tried to poison me with them. So, likely disappointed, if I had to guess in my specific instance.
My paternal grandfather and his wife loved him. I like to think proud in this case, but we didn't get much Tim with grandpa since Dad didn't get to know him until he was an adult. And Grandpa died in the early 90's.
On my mom's side I don't think they'd care much, since she was not the "Golden Child". 3/5 and a girl to boot on the farm. She wasn't really expected to be much, if she was even thought of at all.
We like to play in stereo types and make ageist remarks here, but not everyone fits our clean little cutout. That's what my Boomer parents taught me, as always sorry you all have had vast and diverse experiences from my own.
My Greatest Generation grandparents lived long enough to tell my Boomer parents how disappointed they were in the Boomer generations. Ungrateful little bastards was the mildest term, my grandparents used.
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I sometimes think about how a 20 year old in the Ludlow Massacre would be a grandparent to a boomer, and hearing them talk about bad unions are and how good corporations are, after you witnessed a company and the federal government murder children over a labor dispute, would be insanely triggering.
This is exactly the gist of most conversations my dad had with his. I remember hearing my dad say the stuff I heard 24/7 and thought was normal. I remember the look my grandpa would get on his face, I didn’t know what that face meant at the time. I’ve figured it out in the decades since
My WWII grandfather was extremely disappointed with them near the end of his life.
My grandfather supported his family through the great depression and put himself through medical becoming very well respected in our moderate sized community. He and my grandmother raised seven children going from boomers to early gen x. I remember a fee years after I was able to drink and grandma had passed away we were sharing a quiet drink during the holidays. He looked at me unprompted and said "I don't know where Grace and I went wrong with them but I'm sorry."
Wow, absolutely heartbreaking. Regarding the internet and one of the good things about out it, I feel like it’s so important to read and learn about all of the different generations and how they were raised so that I have as much knowledge as I can to try and do better with my kids.
They survived the Great Depression and world wars and wanted to give their kids the charmed life they never had. So they created a bunch of spoiled monsters. I’m not sure they even noticed what kind of terrible people they were creating.
i think my nana was pretty blind to how much of an asshole my dad is. he and his brother used to throw fits over skippy peanut butter, which was more expensive than she wanted, so she found an old jar and put regular peanut butter in it. like that's how far she went to appease them as kids. they both suck
Mine wasn’t but she never called him on it she’d try to fix it for him without him knowing
“Advocating for free speech that allows ‘evil people’ to triumph.” That’s got to be the single most fascist sentence these eyes have seen written.
I honestly thought that was a joke at first. Just innocuously sprinkled in the middle of the list there as if it isn't taken right out of some kind of fascist speech
I stopped reading after that. It’s as if they are completely unaware
I'd love to go back in time to the Occupy movement and show then what the Left has turned into today.
Both sets of my grandparents and my great grandparents who were still alive while I was growing up in the 70s and 80s were very disappointed with my parents and weren’t hesitant to confront them on what’s now called Boomer behavior.
Greatest generation were pretty big on free speech too.
Yeah, but they killed the Nazis. Can't be big on free speech unless you're also big on killing Nazis if the circumstances demand it.
This made me think of my late grandma (born 1922) calling my uncle (born mid-1950s, not sure what year), “a pain in the ass!” Hahaha. She knew what was up.
My silent gen grandma told me that both her and grandpa before he died thought that my mother 'could be very selfish'. Whenever I complain about my mother, my grandma says I should blame her instead because she raised her, so it must be her fault even if she doesn't know what she did wrong.
My PawPaw once apologized to me for how they handled me growing up and actually said the words that my mother (his daughter) didn’t “have the faculties” to do better. I remember thinking at the time, I was about early 20s, that he was being kinda mean….but he was right. WW11 Navy, I miss him every day.
My grandparents couldn’t stand my parents and cut them off, so I’m sure they would completely hate them now.
That generation raised their boomer kids to be the way they are. Grab the pitchforks!
They didn't know the impact of the mistakes they were making because of their upbringing let alone their mistakes.
They could do no wrong in their eyes.
Both Reagan and Thatcher were from pre-boomer generations, and they'd be fucking ecstatic about those things.
>advocating for free speech that allows evil people to triumph Just going to point out that if free speech only protects the speech you like, or more accurately in your usage what the establishment likes, then free speech doesn't exist. Period. What you believe in is only speech approved by those in power is allowed. Pro-tip: you aren't in power.
My dad was silent generation, and my mom is a boomer. So. He must've liked boomers rather well. And yes, I know, my parentage is gross
Same as others, WWII grandpa whose mind still functioned and lived to be like 98 I think, at the end of his life he got really into angry right wing talk radio after being basically a socialist his whole life. His boomer kids were deeply confused by this but I told them that it made sense to me --not the politics but the anger. He saw everything go to shit while his lib boomer kids were like "Aw it's fine, what are you so mad about, everything's going great!" in this abrasively naive way. I told them I related to the anger and just wished there was a non bigoted way for him to see that feeling validated, because to me, the feeling made sense. He was angry watching every point of commerce become a predatory scam, for instance. Or watching development drive people out of his town and turn it into like a crappy tourist resort. He developed really incoherent political views because there was no coherent media reflecting his anger--at the time it was just a choice between CNN style "Everything's Fine!" or Fox style bigoted rage. By contrast, my other grandma is still alive (she's 94) and she's got some wild senior moments going on but she does like to make fun of her kids generation by grinning and mumbling, "Poor widdwe orphan". It's mean but I appreciate that she never loses composure no matter what happens and doesn't indulge in the boomer tendency to throw tantrums. She's pretty passive aggressive but never ever gets heated about anything which is a big contrast to how boomers I know act.
Silent Gen made absolutely wonderful grandparents, and terrible parents
My grandma hated and resented my Dad from the day he was born. In her eyes he never did anything right and was guilty of the highest crime imaginable, being a man. She always made up stories about him and tried to poison me with them. So, likely disappointed, if I had to guess in my specific instance. My paternal grandfather and his wife loved him. I like to think proud in this case, but we didn't get much Tim with grandpa since Dad didn't get to know him until he was an adult. And Grandpa died in the early 90's. On my mom's side I don't think they'd care much, since she was not the "Golden Child". 3/5 and a girl to boot on the farm. She wasn't really expected to be much, if she was even thought of at all. We like to play in stereo types and make ageist remarks here, but not everyone fits our clean little cutout. That's what my Boomer parents taught me, as always sorry you all have had vast and diverse experiences from my own.
My Greatest Generation grandparents lived long enough to tell my Boomer parents how disappointed they were in the Boomer generations. Ungrateful little bastards was the mildest term, my grandparents used.