The What Generation Are You Poll?

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm so millennial that I'm screeching that NOT CARING ABOUT THIS POLL is YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PRIVILEGE.

Isn't it also a micro-aggression?

What do you think I am, a zoomer?

I understand nothing about any of you in equal measure. If you knew what it was like to grow up in the 80s—with Reagan and Thatcher and MTV and, I dunno, leg warmers?—you'd be more respectful.

Leg warmers and whirly girls, the gen x experience defined.

It really shouldn't be hard to comprehend why we hate everything.

[Dr. Medulla]

I hate labels. Does that make me a GenXer?

[Silent Majority]

Isn't it also a micro-aggression?

What do you think I am, a zoomer?

I understand nothing about any of you in equal measure. If you knew what it was like to grow up in the 80s—with Reagan and Thatcher and MTV and, I dunno, leg warmers?—you'd be more respectful.

MTV? Oh, you mean the channel with Catfish on.

Is that a band? Do you people even have bands anymore?

(I sound positively antediluvian when I do my MTV lecture and try to express how much it mattered to watch music videos because that made up so much of the conversation at school. It was dumb, of course, but holy hell but it mattered.)

A benefit of the monoculture meant that everybody had the same music drilled into them, which meant that we all had a common ground. I imagine a high school now has tiny pockets of people who are into New Jack Swing, Cumbia, French dubstep, and dress and act accordingly.

[Dr. Medulla]

What do you think I am, a zoomer?

I understand nothing about any of you in equal measure. If you knew what it was like to grow up in the 80s—with Reagan and Thatcher and MTV and, I dunno, leg warmers?—you'd be more respectful.

MTV? Oh, you mean the channel with Catfish on.

Is that a band? Do you people even have bands anymore?

(I sound positively antediluvian when I do my MTV lecture and try to express how much it mattered to watch music videos because that made up so much of the conversation at school. It was dumb, of course, but holy hell but it mattered.)

A benefit of the monoculture meant that everybody had the same music drilled into them, which meant that we all had a common ground. I imagine a high school now has tiny pockets of people who are into New Jack Swing, Cumbia, French dubstep, and dress and act accordingly.

There's more possibility—that is, more available material—for that kind of diversity. How many kids take advantage and ignore real world peer pressures is another question. I remember doing research on the magazine Sassy, where girls from small towns would read about all these options to be different, to stand up and be yourself and all that, and they thought, "Yeah, it's easy to say that, especially living in a large city, but the reality is that I have to face these kids and teachers every day."

[Silent Majority]

I understand nothing about any of you in equal measure. If you knew what it was like to grow up in the 80s—with Reagan and Thatcher and MTV and, I dunno, leg warmers?—you'd be more respectful.

MTV? Oh, you mean the channel with Catfish on.

Is that a band? Do you people even have bands anymore?

(I sound positively antediluvian when I do my MTV lecture and try to express how much it mattered to watch music videos because that made up so much of the conversation at school. It was dumb, of course, but holy hell but it mattered.)

A benefit of the monoculture meant that everybody had the same music drilled into them, which meant that we all had a common ground. I imagine a high school now has tiny pockets of people who are into New Jack Swing, Cumbia, French dubstep, and dress and act accordingly.

There's more possibility—that is, more available material—for that kind of diversity. How many kids take advantage and ignore real world peer pressures is another question. I remember doing research on the magazine Sassy, where girls from small towns would read about all these options to be different, to stand up and be yourself and all that, and they thought, "Yeah, it's easy to say that, especially living in a large city, but the reality is that I have to face these kids and teachers every day."

Yes, of course the actual reality is the same commercial chart music being as omnipresent, if not more so, as it was in the 80s.

[Dr. Medulla]

MTV? Oh, you mean the channel with Catfish on.

Is that a band? Do you people even have bands anymore?

(I sound positively antediluvian when I do my MTV lecture and try to express how much it mattered to watch music videos because that made up so much of the conversation at school. It was dumb, of course, but holy hell but it mattered.)

A benefit of the monoculture meant that everybody had the same music drilled into them, which meant that we all had a common ground. I imagine a high school now has tiny pockets of people who are into New Jack Swing, Cumbia, French dubstep, and dress and act accordingly.

There's more possibility—that is, more available material—for that kind of diversity. How many kids take advantage and ignore real world peer pressures is another question. I remember doing research on the magazine Sassy, where girls from small towns would read about all these options to be different, to stand up and be yourself and all that, and they thought, "Yeah, it's easy to say that, especially living in a large city, but the reality is that I have to face these kids and teachers every day."

Yes, of course the actual reality is the same commercial chart music being as omnipresent, if not more so, as it was in the 80s.

That omnipresence, ironically enough, according to some students, has meant that music doesn't mean that much to them. That is, when there's so much out there, there doesn't seem much reason to argue about it. Availability has pushed down value.

[WestwayKid]

It's interesting that neither Billy Idol or Tony James are part of Generation X ...

[Silent Majority]

It's interesting that neither Billy Idol or Tony James are part of Generation X ...

Somehow Idol's plastic surgery hasn't been able to make that idea seem convincing.

[Dr. Medulla]

It's interesting that neither Billy Idol or Tony James are part of Generation X ...

Somehow Idol's plastic surgery hasn't been able to make that idea seem convincing.

[Kory]

I'm what I believe is now called a Geriatric Millennial.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm what I believe is now called a Geriatric Millennial.

Close enough to being an Xer without the fetishizing of 1970s popular culture.

[Kory]

I'm what I believe is now called a Geriatric Millennial.

Close enough to being an Xer without the fetishizing of 1970s popular culture.

Hey, I liked Dazed and Confused

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm what I believe is now called a Geriatric Millennial.

Close enough to being an Xer without the fetishizing of 1970s popular culture.

Hey, I liked Dazed and Confused

What's your view on the Rockford Files, the Six Million Dollar Man, and Dynomutt?

[Silent Majority]

It's interesting that neither Billy Idol or Tony James are part of Generation X ...

Somehow Idol's plastic surgery hasn't been able to make that idea seem convincing.

Hah exactlamundo

[Kory]

I'm what I believe is now called a Geriatric Millennial.

Close enough to being an Xer without the fetishizing of 1970s popular culture.

Hey, I liked Dazed and Confused

What's your view on the Rockford Files, the Six Million Dollar Man, and Dynomutt?

I liked Dynomutt quite a bit as a kid, the others, not so much.