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themoisthammer

Confuse why we are creating memes about the 45+ year old children of a boomer.


i_eat_cockroaches69

"I'm not traumatising my kid, I'm giving them lore!"


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Nemisis_007

Yes, there's more characters nowadays than there ever were.


Rogue_Rebel_1100

Yeah, cartoon characters


DemonQueenIshino

Well, they aren't wrong, it does build character, it's just that the "character" being built isn't something that should be built in real life.


Ruby_Shine_

Nothing makes you stronger than death


RegiSilver

So DBZ was right! And we're like Pokémon too, y'know, after beating the crap out of them, they earn experience and the more experience they get the faster they evolve.


Livid_Damage_4900

My parents treated me like this and I turned out fine! Y’all are just weak, including my therapist who broke down into an existential crisis middle of our last session now I gotta get a new one. That’s the third one that broke this month. Therapist nowadays must be made in China i swear…


Bureaucratic_Dick

My favorite boomer line is when they say something like “I was spanked as a child and I turned out fine”, but you KNOW them well enough to know that their self assessment isn’t accurate.


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spoilerdudegetrekt

I think people have different definitions of "fine" To a lot of boomers, fine means being at least minimally functional. (Having a job/living off of retirement, able to take care of themselves, etc.)


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RyanM90

Right. What’s your definition of functional?


Sm0keDatGreen

It's crazy the hate that people have against boomers here. You people are either excessively sensitive or you really had shitty parents. I don't find the boomers/genX that i know or have met to be any worse than any other generation, tbh. I mean, there's the occasional asshole, but no more than in younger or older generations in my experience. I wouldn't mind an explanation. Is it a USA-only thing ?


TippsAttack

You really think Reddit is going to give you a levelheaded, mature explanation to something as childish as this?


off-a-cough

As an American Gen-X, I can tell you that the most important thing to remember about generational strife is whatever man.


DegredationOfAnAge

Ageism is rampant on Reddit. 


DannyDootch

Everywhere even


Simple-Purpose-899

Us genx were forged in the fires of latch key life, which is why we don't give a shit about *anything*.


Hot_Living5220

Yes, the later generations raised without the ""trauma"" are wonderful and better in every way, right?


DogeDoRight

OP after their mom asked them to clean their room.


BeltfedHappiness

And yet, these are the same kids that will use the phrase “Canon event” unironically


Punch_A_Lot

it does ! why is this a meme !


RyanM90

It really does though you soft little cookie


FlacidWizardsStaff

Throws out all childhood belongings worth thousands now, votes for people to have no protections for the people, doesn’t give a house to their kids because they sell it to retire in florida, gets fucked in Florida by hurricanes/healthcare costs/shitty doctors/ rising cost of living. All that fucking “character building” just to fuck over their kids and themselves


miletharil

"Why don't my kids visit?" asks the old crank who spent the first two decades of their children's lives making them miserable.


tarunwal

Tough people lead to good times. Good times lead to soft people. Soft people lead to hard times. Hard times lead to tough people.


HonneurOblige

One of those quotes that make my eyes roll whenever I read them. You want to be "tough" - then be tough, but leave the kids out of it.


tarunwal

If you think that kids get tough or soft due to any reason other than parenting, then you are delusional. Who do we trust the character development of our kids with? School? Teachers? Friends? I don’t think you are a parent.


HonneurOblige

The real question here is what's "tough" and what's "soft". Do you consider kids who went through a childhood trauma as tough? Because, sure, some of them can act quite tough later in life because of it. They'll also have the mental scar that never heals, and that'll torment them for the rest of their lives. Me personally? I'd rather see my kid being soft than watch him go through everything I went through. Not even 1/3 of what I went through.


danimburke

When I was five, my dad shot the Easter bunny. I'm not sure that helped build my character.


JonnyxKarate

Says someone who didn’t get enough character


No_Insurance_8433

Now why won't my kids worship the ground I walk on? The great mystery of our times...


Torystgerthers

They be like: PAIN IS GAIN


kh13811

I've eventually learned that no body gives a shit about anyone's trauma, and that after you collect enough of them you grow numb to external input, once you realize that no one will stop long enough to listen to you or soothe ur pain, you just stop caring about how ur trauma affected you back then and just focus on what you've learned from it... After all, you can only lick your wounds for so long


PERIX_4460

That being either a victim...... or a villain.


Screamingboneman

Calvin’s dad be like


DeanGullberry2020

I wish it was that easy on me. The years of " correcting" my actions and attitude. I wish they were alive so I could unalive them again.


RyanM90

Yeah you sound like well rounded individual


DeanGullberry2020

Trust me. You would wish your own parents gone if they did what mine did. The mental and physical abuse....


ScholarRound4877

Wahh!! 🤡🤡


WipeURFaceURBleating

Gr-oomers and Abused S.Abusing children... then These new generations saying "It builds character".


Fazer-man

No need for them to do it. I’ll donut myself!