Jeff Goldblum was so preoccupied with whether or not he could open his mouth, he didn’t stop to think if he should.

As a middle age Gen-Xer, I love this. It’s a good, sarcastic way of making a point that I totally support. The boomers know what they did.

“And what is ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!”

Boomers didn’t vote when they were young either. The voting age was lowered to 18, Nixon was dry humping the constitution nightly & the Boomers had been drafted by the scores to head to Vietnam and McGovern had his ass handed to him in 72. Youth turnout wasn’t great. It’s the being young part not the generation part. 

Ok Boomer

OK Boomer.

It's not about how old the members of the band are, its about their audience

I didn’t think there was any such thing.

OK, Boomer

51, and I’m not of the Boomers, and GenX kids were the stupid younger little weasels who were BMXing and skateboarding and POGing too much for my taste. 

Considering that Millennials have been able to vote since roughly 2008 and still can’t be arsed to turn out at the same rates Boomers do, despite how truly fucked those elections have left us, means my sympathy is limited. Whereas I know a great many older people who have consistently turned out to support progressive…

If Boomers want to rehabilitate their reputation they have a chance in say ... November of next year?

The real flaw in “ok boomer” is that it’s not like a laser honed snark strike, it’s simply the only other generation zoomers can name, and they spend far, far more time saying it to millennials and gen x’ers than they do actual baby boomers.

Meh it seems fair. How many “Millennials are killing ____ industry” articles have been written or Millennials are too sensitive and want participation trophies. Etc etc. The response from the Boomers is fairly funny and only fuels the fire. The phrase “ok boomer” is a minor quip equal to Gen X’s “whatever”.

>‘Boomer’ is the n-word of ageism 

And once again those of us Gen Xers are caught in the crossfire, shrugging and lamenting the fact that Thurston Moore cheated on Kim Gordon and broke up Sonic Youth even if, like most of us, their best years were behind them.

My favorite use of it yet (the fact that the folks in charge of the closed captioning thought that she was saying “OK, Burma” just adds even more fun):

I haven’t read Summer Of Hate, but it’s always nice to see some love for Chris Kraus.

Thank you. You have Good Taste™.