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I've heard of kids who had to do that.

Thankfully, my mom and stepdad had good jobs, so we were good, financially. I worked because I wanted to make my own money and be able to buy some things that my folks either didn't want to, or I wanted right away. That being said, I do understand that situation. My oldest is doing that right now, honestly. So, yes, a lot of us were busy with new responsibilities.

So many facts! Thank you for commenting!

Damn! That's true, though.

Nah, I've already read the lyrics to "Fuckin' Hostile" by Pantera. 😏 I do love Type O, though. Thanks for commenting!

Yes, when we were younger, we were bullied at school, at home, and at work. Our friends were our peace and our support group. To be older and finally feel peaceful is a gift a lot of us wanted to sit back and enjoy. Now, we have to worry about the younger Gens trying to rile us up by bullying us with some grade school bullcrap. It's irritating! We want to be left alone. Hell, our parents did it, why can't they? Thank you so much for watching and commenting!

It's crazy how many people had similar or the same furniture when we were kids.

Abso-freakin'-lutely! Thank you for commenting!

Damn. I'm sorry to hear that.

LMFAO! Very true! We're the FAFO Generation for a reason! Thank you for commenting.

YEEEES!!! Thank you so much for that!!!

Yes! I pointed some of that out in a more recent video "What Happened to Gen X?..." You should check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/leGYveff7Jo/v-deo.html But we choose what we want to care about because as youngsters, we learned that caring too much hurt. We cared about what kids thought about us in school, and got bullied. We cared what our families thought and were (sometimes) greeted with disbelief or apathy. Yes, not caring was a stereotype, but nobody ever asked us with any amount of sincerity: "Why are you that way?" If they said anything at all, it was with cynicism, condescension, and an accusatory tone. Thank you for commenting!

@@Gen_X_Rosey - Thanks for a video recommendation. I do love to look at generations research, data, and commentary. But sadly, most of what one comes across is superficial and simplistic. I prefer your more thoughtful approach.

No one can stop the Boomers. They owned every damned thing and still do! With a few notable exceptions, of course.

Gen X is the generation born between 1965 and 1980. Gen Z is the generation born between 1997 and 2012. A lot of us Gen Xers are the parents of Gen Z. My kids are Gen Z.

@@Gen_X_Rosey Oh ok cool, X comes before Z so Xers were born first thus older than Gen Zs. That makes sense, thanks Gen X Rosey!

That's very true. Thank you for commenting!

Exactly! I agree. Thank you for interacting, Boo!

When you look around on UA-cam, there were news stories out about us back in the 90s.

@@Gen_X_Rosey as i said. my point stands :)

Indeed! Happy Birthday, by the way. I'll be 48 in about two weeks, myself.

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I agree! He'd have only gotten worse had they not done it.

YES!!! Oh my gosh, that is so true!!! I didn't raise my kids like that. For them, the bullying got so bad, I pulled them out of school after 6th and 8th Grades and homeschooled them. Even when the bullying was taken to the teachers, the vice principal, the principal, and other school administrators, nothing was ever done about it. After that, they gained some confidence and are very intelligent. Even with that, though, I have to admit that NOT caring or giving a f*ck is very freeing. It's easier. It eases your mind that what another person thinks of you is irrelevant in the big scheme of things. When what this bitter person says to you can go through ear and out the other, or you read it and it goes into one part of your brain and immediately seeps away, it's then that not caring can be cathartic. In high school, life seemed to hinge on another person's perception of you. When I learned not to care anymore and their words didn't affect me anymore (because by twelfth grade, they managed to drain me of tears and every bit of emotion I had left until only hate remained) It freed me. That was when I learned, they cared way more than I did because their words served to get a reaction from me. When I started to look "through" them instead of AT them, they would get mad, and I would slightly smirk. Thank you for interacting!

This is actually a really good point. I'm a late Xer (born in 1977). I remember being told all of those things growing up. My late mother, bless her, had a favorite saying whenever any of us kids would bust out with "That's not fair" as kids do. Her response was always the same, "Life isn't fair". My wife, an early millenial, who grew up with disabled parents, so didn't have an easy childhood, just can't get it when I say the same thing to her when she says X, Y or Z isn't fair, and I respond with "I'm gonna tell you what my mother told me growing up ... life ain't fair". Or when she gets pent up because of some slight (or more often a percieved slight) and she's going on and on, eventually I just bust out with "Why do you care what they think about you?". To a degree, those were valuable lessons, because yes I do genuinely think that Gen Xers do have 'thicker skins' than Millenials. They seem to just get so worked up about everything, all the time, even over the tiniest of things that when I was growing up wouldn't have even been something to give a second thought about. On the flip side, it also means at times we bottle everything up to an unhealthy degree. It took untill my very early 40s, and a major depressive episode, and a lot of sessions with mental health professionals, to 'learn' that it is ok to have feelings and express them sometimes. So it is all a bit of give and take. Sure, they could learn to toughen up a bit, but we could learn to be a bit less insular. Just my opinion.

I'm so sorry. I wish there was a version on audiobook I could leave.

@@Gen_X_Rosey I'll look on audible

Thank you! I'm glad to have you here!

I'm so sorry that happened to you. The L.A. Riots were traumatic for us. We saw a lot of traumatic shit, and none of us were prepared for it.

@@Gen_X_Rosey There's absolutely no way to ever prepare for any traumatic events. The first news report I remember very vividly was the fall of the Berlin Wall.

@@K1ll3r84 Yeah, I remember that one too. I remember thinking how great that was for Germany, but wondered, "But does that mean anything for the rest of us?" I was 13.

@@Gen_X_Rosey I was only 5. but there's things you remember and you can't explain why.

69 model here. Both parents divorced and remarried like 3 times each. You get out of the house not to deal with the step parents every day! Practically just got tired of the parents BS and gtfo early in life! First job at 12, paid taxes at 15! Now I am tempered, an ancient of simplicity when the world wants you to be in it's complicated BS! I say NEVER! My wife and I will be crafty and crazy like foxes while the world and society will screw it self over! This is how some of us Gen xers are today. God bless you all..

My best friend at the time had so many recorded episodes. We'd "pregame" with the older episodes before watching the newer ones that same night.

Yeah, Gen-X tends to really respect Elder Millennials, because you're so much like us. Thank you for interacting!

Yep! And now, those bands were seen as "too whiney". It's exhausting. Thank you for watching and commenting!

Yeah, same.

Not exactly comedic, but if people find it funny, that's fine. But I don't give my "cares" to people who just expect it or demand it. I don't give it to people who feel entitled to it. My care (or more accurately, my fucks) have to be earned. So, I get it. I was without adult situation for a lot of my life too. My mom had to work for our survival. Thank you for your input.

@@Gen_X_Rosey I think it’s the common thread in GenX. I find them to be kind and thoughtful… as long as you don’t PRESUME. GenX doesn’t owe anyone and if they try to press the matter, they’ll get an earful from us. And then immediately ignored 😉

Thank you so much!

Surely the best generation is the one living with their heads buried in their phones, typing tough and doing nothing to make the world a better place while ensuring the celebration of greed gets stronger and false beauty standards are made stronger every minute...no?

@@miker953 Had to read this 3 times to understand you're referring to genx. "living with their heads buried in their phones" Are you really suggesting genx are smartphone addicts? I've never owned one. I'd like to see the study that shows genx use smartphones as much as younger generations. "celebration of greed" A core genx trait is a distaste for sell-outs. If one of our hero musicians appeared in a commercial for jeans or something, we didn't think the jeans were cool. We felt betrayed by our hero for selling out. "false beauty standards" Are you familiar with the genx term "poser"? It's an insult aimed at people who are vain.

@genxjack72 I guess you should try a 4th time. I'm not talking about Gen X who didn't even have smart phones growing up.

@miker953 Sorry, my bad.

Thank you for your comment. As I've grown older, I've started questioning everything. I have one or two videos about manifestation, and how I manifested a storyline. There is something greater than us out there. Even the government has publicly come out and admitted to the existence of aliens. I know the Universe has greater things in store for those of us open to receive it. As for The Breakfast Club (one of my all-time favorite movies), John Bender was the perfect representation of a kid pretending not to care. He did. He cared about his image and looking cool and tough to the other kids. But his feelings were hurt when Claire and Andrew did what they could to tear down his self-esteem. He tried to look unbothered, but Judd Nelson did a great job of showing what it's like to try swallowing those feelings back to play up the "I don't care" card. By the end, they all broke that shell, pushed past the barriers of class, and the forced high school hierarchy of bullies vs jocks vs nerds vs misfits vs "princesses" to see each other as humans... as friends. And in the cases of John & Claire and Andrew & Allison, lovers. Again, thank you for watching and commenting.

@@Gen_X_Rosey yes , so true...100%. And another thing : ( you probably already did watch but just in case ) there's a 'deleted scenes part-1' from the breakfast club in which shows the entirety of Carl the janitor's speech that didn't make the final cut. The way he speaks to the kids like if he doesn't care but caring ( in the inside ) is amazing, the way it played out, one of the best parts of the movie ( so much authenticity ) and it goes so much towards your point. You can clearly see him caring while perfectly playing the 'i don't care' card, so representative of our generation and yet not shown in the movie. Maybe Hughes kind of felt that he was giving out cheaply the essence of the movie and we should realise that by our own, later in life as a general thing, not necesseraly a generational thing? And thats where the universal ( as universe, all things, not just a afternoon in detention ) meaning of the movie ( a bridge to every generation understand each other )is ? Something way much bigger than just a seasonal teen movie? I don't know, maybe...it really took me a while ( to be honest ) to realise that we actually care/cared and the card was a self-protective mechanism we activated to keep going...and thats why i "stumbled" up in your video i guess, cause i was as well starting to question that card/label lately, so much .. anyways...thanks again for the video and the reply.

Yes, exactly! In my senior year, I tried to "unalive" myself in my first-period class. It took a while for the kids to notice I was popping pills one by one. It took a few of them to wrestle them out of my hand. I asked them, "Why do y'all care now?" My mom told me that if I had told her I was being bullied that badly, she'd have transferred me to a private school. After that, I became more of a goth. Never smiled, wore all black with blood red lipstick. Hated everyone. Never spoke to people at school. They never bullied me again, but it was too little too late by then. Ongoing since 2nd or 3rd grade. I talked about it in another video, but it was bad. So, now, I DGAF anymore. It's easier that way.

1. I know that. 2. I did. Thank you for your concern.

@@Gen_X_Rosey Awesome!

Thank you, sweetheart! And you're 100% right! With the copperheads, you are much braver than I am! UGH!!!

@@Gen_X_Rosey You're awesome...(scratching something with scissors on a detention desk and thinkin...ET would have got all my Reece's pieces too.)

Thank you for your service!

I know it definitely felt that way, huh?

Hey, I'm with you! As you said, it had to be done because that was the only way the people in that area got any peace. I think it's weird how some in the area feel like they were forced into silence or that the people shouldn't have taken the law into their own hands. But had they not done it, how much longer would those people have to live in fear? No one should have to live their lives in fear the way he had them. And his wives were so brainwashed that the one still alive (if she is, indeed, still alive) is still convinced that he was "a good man". I just hate that his kids and grandkids are convinced it was unjustified. They were kept in the dark about how horrible he was, and now, they live their whole lives believing some saint was martyred in a lawless town.

How are is kids convinced he wasn't a child predator? He literally stalked and raped a child. If they need evidence it's literally them. The children born out of that rape. Like wtf ​@@Gen_X_Rosey

Yes! We had to create families from our friend groups just to feel like we had a support system. Thank you so much for commenting!

Perfect explanation! Yes! Thank you for interacting!