MovieChat Forums > Teri Hatcher Discussion > a Tail-End Boomer?

a Tail-End Boomer?

posted 13 years ago by Clothes-Off
15 replies | jump to latest

A lot of people consider Baby Boomers only people born in the 1950s. The broadest spectrum of Boomerdom is considered 1946-1964--a nineteen year spread which seems more in line with a generation.

This would make Teri, born in December of '64 one of the last celebrity baby boomers. Buy she doesn't seem like a Boomer. She's more on the cusp.

When we think of Boomers, we tend to think of the older ones: Kathy Bates, Rob Reiner, Meryl Streep--ones born late '40s or early '50s. Not cuspers like Teri and Nic Cage.

Even Reagan-era icons like Blair from The Facts of Life (Lisa Whelchel) and Michael J. Fox are Boomers. Weird.

"Well, for once the rich white man is in control!" C. M. Burns

[–] chrisamon 8 years ago

Okay...I guess.... 

.....................Sometimes ya gotta wonder.... 

[–] BourbonKing (5612) 6 years ago

Have you ever heard of the term "Generation Jones"? They're the people born in the mid 50s/early 60s who were too young to experience the cultural revolution as teenagers because they didn't graduate High School until the mid 70s at best. They're called that because it is argued that their experiences in life were not met with the same payoff as their older siblings who were given more attention and resources. It's argued that the Gen Jones people experience more of the hardship of the lagging economic climate of the 70s and early 80s

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

'Generation Jones' my arse.

Late era Baby Boomers are the most spoiled and privileged of the lot.

They were too young to serve in Nam, they missed our entirely on the hardships of the post-war and Communist witch hunt eras, and all the 'Reds under the bed' nonsense, and they entered the job market just as the Reagan era boom began (I say that as someone who loathes Reganite politics, but nevertheless recognises that the 80s and Clinton-era 90s were two of the most prosperous eras in post-war history).

Unlike earlier and later eras, the yuppie generation as I like to call those who entered their twenties during the 1980s, came of age during peacetime. They didn't have to serve.

[–] BourbonKing (5612) 5 years ago

The Lief Garret generation?.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The Brat Pack Generation.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

I have no complaints. Never even had to register for Selective Service. Almost was denied Federal services over it but they figured it out.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

I couldn't stand Rayguns either, and I didn't realize we were so prosperous at the time. So why were taxes and social services cut at the time? We should have been able to afford stuff like that.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

If you were born during the Reagan era, you were screwed. Pretty much as you've always been ever since, especially right now. But the rich and upper-middle-class kids never had it so good.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

I'm a Boomer and I'd like to Boom Her.

[–] whynotwriteme (7119) 5 years ago

Generation X now includes persons born between 1960 and 1981. Teri is Generation X.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Absolutely bollocks.

I have NOTHING in common with the privileged yuppies who were lucky enough to be born during the 1960s.

Pre-64: Pampered Boomer

Post-79: Struggling Millennial

Everyone inbetween: Generation X

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

These shifting categories need to end.

Once a generation has been defined, it should remain fixed.

Until recently, Baby Boomers were always regarded as people born in the period of 1946 to 1964. Teri Hatcher is part of the same generation as Donald Trump. End of.

Likewise, Millennials were, until recently, categorised as the generation that ended in the late seventies.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The Boomers are the ones who made Reagan possible, and reaped the benefits of his boom and bust brand of politics.

[–] McQualude (4231) 5 years ago

When marketing companies started treating generations like real things they stretched the definitions to include as many people as possible. That's why Gen Y or as they were later called, millennials, covers such a long period of time and diverse micro-cultures. Their whole lives millennials have been told who they are, what they like, where they like to buy it, and how they think, because that makes marketing easier.

[–] liscarkat (16483) 3 years ago

All of this generation tribalism, bitterness, and resentment is idiotic. Stop blaming others for your failures.