Study: Many Millennials Hate Being Millennials

[IIOY]

This piece is terrible for a variety of reasons, but I couldn't resist posting just because it's a constant topic around here.  (devil)

"Millennial" is about the dumbest name anyone could have come up with to describe a generational group, and now we know that Gen-Xers aren't the only ones to find it loathsome. A new Pew Research Center study has revealed that millennials are not happy about being called millennials either, and in response, some disassociate themselves from the title entirely.



The study was conducted by surveying 3,147 adults over a one-month period this year, and participants (ranging from ages 18 to 87) were asked to respond to five generational labels and then self-identify with one. According to the results, only 40 percent of millennials actually identify with the label, while another 30 percent on the older end of the age group (18 to 34, but you already knew that) believed that they were actually part of Generation X. Give me a break!



Boomers, on the other hand, couldn't be prouder to consider themselves boomers: 79 percent of the study's participants between the ages of 70 and 87 identified as such. Boomers, as well, see themselves mostly in a positive light. The most self-hating generational group in the study ended up being — surprise — those Vine-ing, twerking millennials, who were "far more likely than older generations to say the terms 'self-absorbed,' 'wasteful,' and 'greedy' apply to people in their age cohort," the study says. Millennials, man. Lighten up!

NYMag

[tacosforlife]

Fuck it. I'm a Millennial. I fucking own this shit. Fuck the Boomers who fucked up the world for me and then turned their noses up at my generation.

I shit you not - my dad said my generation sucks because we're having kids so late/not having them. I'm 33 and haven't given him a grandkid. I asked him if he ever had a $1,000/month student loan bill and basically told him to STFU.

FUCK EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE!

(Sorry, work has made me salty this morning.)

[sharknado]

Sept 4, 2015 11:25:27 GMT -5 pt716 said:

So Millennials think that other Millennials are terrible, but they don't personally identify as Millennials because that doesn't apply to them, and thus really do think they are special snowflakes.

Which makes them Millennials

[ttt]

I don't think it's the actual word "Millennials" that's the problem here, contrary to what this writer apparently thinks.

Maybe if the press weren't constantly crapping on this generation, it wouldn't be so self-loathing.

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 4, 2015 11:11:38 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Boomers, as well, see themselves mostly in a positive light. 

You don't say.

[tacosforlife]

How the fuck to people between 70 and 87 identify as Boomers? 70, OK, they were born in 1945, they can be the very beginning of the Boomers. But people before that? No. 87-year-olds were born in 1928. NOT BOOMERS.

[IIOY]

Sept 4, 2015 11:39:29 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

How the fuck to people between 70 and 87 identify as Boomers? 70, OK, they were born in 1945, they can be the very beginning of the Boomers. But people before that? No. 87-year-olds were born in 1928. NOT BOOMERS.

Because they can't math.  Did we not learn this with all of our budget and financial shenanigans??

[ttt]

Sept 4, 2015 11:39:29 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

How the fuck to people between 70 and 87 identify as Boomers? 70, OK, they were born in 1945, they can be the very beginning of the Boomers. But people before that? No. 87-year-olds were born in 1928. NOT BOOMERS.

I am LOLing at the 18-34 year olds who identify as "Silent Generation" or Boomers. They should have just had a category for "I don't know what these mean."

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 4, 2015 11:45:30 GMT -5 ttt said:

Sept 4, 2015 11:39:29 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

How the fuck to people between 70 and 87 identify as Boomers? 70, OK, they were born in 1945, they can be the very beginning of the Boomers. But people before that? No. 87-year-olds were born in 1928. NOT BOOMERS.

I am LOLing at the 18-34 year olds who identify as "Silent Generation" or Boomers. They should have just had a category for "I don't know what these mean."

Maybe we're so silent because we text so much?

[ttt]

Sept 4, 2015 11:11:38 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Boomers, on the other hand, couldn't be prouder to consider themselves boomers: 79 percent of the study's participants between the ages of 70 and 87 identified as such.

This is not what the study said. Journalism fail.

www.people-press.org/2015/09/03/most-millennials-resist-the-millennial-label/

[tacosforlife]

Sept 4, 2015 11:47:44 GMT -5 ttt said:

Sept 4, 2015 11:11:38 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Boomers, on the other hand, couldn't be prouder to consider themselves boomers: 79 percent of the study's participants between the ages of 70 and 87 identified as such.

This is not what the study said. Journalism fail.

www.people-press.org/2015/09/03/most-millennials-resist-the-millennial-label/

Ahhhh.

Still, 34 percent of the Silent Generation are fucking stupid.

The oldest cohort of Americans is by far the least likely to embrace a generational label. Just 18% of those ages 70 to 87 (the age range of the Silent Generation) actually see themselves as part of the “Silent Generation.” Far more Silents consider themselves part of adjoining generations, either Boomers (34%) or the Greatest Generation (also 34%).

[ttt]

Also, we have a generation calling themselves "the greatest generation" and yet it's Millennials who are self-centered and narcissistic??

[josieposy]

I'll be 34 next month and I only partially identify. From now on I'm calling myself a Diet Millennial.

[sharknado]

Sept 4, 2015 11:51:37 GMT -5 ttt said:

Also, we have a generation calling themselves "the greatest generation" and yet it's Millennials who are self-centered and narcissistic??

UH, no, they were labeled, didn't label themselves.

[downtoearth]

Um, maybe this study actually shows that you don't identify as a generation until later in life. Remember how those boomers hated being lumped together during the Vietnam war. Many did not identify as a "generation" at that time or even after, but I'm guessing are more likely to identify as the years pass.

[jln]

I hate the vitriol spewed about "fucking millenials". I've seen it numerous times on this very board. We aren't the ones that created the financial crisis. We didn't destroy the environment. We can barely afford to go to college and can't afford our huge student loans because the jobs just aren't there.

[LoveTrains]

Sept 4, 2015 11:39:29 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

How the fuck to people between 70 and 87 identify as Boomers? 70, OK, they were born in 1945, they can be the very beginning of the Boomers. But people before that? No. 87-year-olds were born in 1928. NOT BOOMERS.

My mother was born in November 1945 and identifies as a Boomer. She says it's legit because the war was over. 

But there is a big difference between her experience in college from 1964-1968 then people even four years younger. 

[Deleted]

I'm 30 and call myself Gen Y. I didn't start hearing the term Millenial in time for me to apply it to myself.

[heyjude]

Sept 4, 2015 12:34:02 GMT -5 Dig Ophelia said:

Sept 4, 2015 11:59:02 GMT -5 josieposy said:

I'll be 34 next month and I only partially identify. From now on I'm calling myself a Diet Millennial.

I had no idea that 34 y/o were considered Millennials.  Whatever happened to Gen Y?  I always thought I was still a part of Gen X or just made it into Gen Y.  

I swear this gets asked and answered everytime we do this.

[heyjude]

I was born in 1980 and I don't know what I am but I'd rather be a millennial.

[josieposy]

Sept 4, 2015 14:18:13 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Sept 4, 2015 12:34:02 GMT -5 Dig Ophelia said:

I had no idea that 34 y/o were considered Millennials. Whatever happened to Gen Y? I always thought I was still a part of Gen X or just made it into Gen Y.

I swear this gets asked and answered everytime we do this.

That's because there has been no consistency in these articles.

[heyjude]

Sept 4, 2015 14:22:20 GMT -5 josieposy said:

Sept 4, 2015 14:18:13 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I swear this gets asked and answered everytime we do this.

That's because there has been no consistency in these articles.

No the millennial = gen y is well established. It's the year it starts that changes with every article.

[josieposy]

Sept 4, 2015 14:26:00 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Sept 4, 2015 14:22:20 GMT -5 josieposy said:

That's because there has been no consistency in these articles.

No the millennial = gen y is well established. It's the year it starts that changes with every article.

Oh. I was talking about the year thing. LOL! Damn millennials not reading things....

[IIOY]

I'm going to start putting "Millennials" in the title of every article I post here so as to generate more clicks.

[Deleted]

Sept 4, 2015 14:33:51 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'm going to start putting "Millennials" in the title of every article I post here so as to generate more clicks.

But Olds works too. Name age groups. We'll show up to tell you about them.

[elleblue]

Sept 4, 2015 14:19:29 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I was born in 1980 and I don't know what I am but I'd rather be a millennial.

#oregontrailgeneration

[pixy0stix]

I'm going to start deleting all these threads. They're all the same.

signed,
crotchety gen xer

[meshaliuknits]

I once saw something that called X the Nintendo generation so Imma stick with X.

[frontbutt]

Sept 4, 2015 11:30:41 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I asked him if he ever had a $1,000/month student loan bill and basically told him to STFU.

This is EXACTLY what I told my parents when they started doing the whole "give us a grandkid" dance.

Um, sorry I have so much debt because you didn't fucking help me at all through college

I'm bitter about this. They have two paid off houses, three paid off cars, and are building a new house, but couldn't fucking help me out just a little? Jeez, y'all. 

and then "give us a grandkid" 

LOL

[Deleted]

So...they are hipsters.