But again, of course, because a grotesquely disproportionate number of those affected are the very poor and predominately peoples of colour nothing like enough resources are or will be available to help them cope.

Counterpoint. It looked like a shitty movie before and now it looks like a shitty movie with a less terrifying cherry on top. No one “owes” the studio any of their time or money.

It seems like common sense to not have to say this, but here goes anyway:

Every single person that had something to say about the original design needs to get their ass to a theater and see the movie. I can’t think of another time where a movie studio immediately listened to the audience and backtracked this publicly…

I’m sure if we ignore it, it will go away.

I’m currently making a game where you play as an octogenarian. When I pitch to people, everyone thinks it’s a great idea. Everyone except boomers. They find the very idea offensive and tell me no one will play my game because no one likes to think about getting old. Generations before them have gotten old and found…

I wasn’t sure until the last two word of your post, but...

I’m sorry Mr. Sorkin, you’re a Boomer not an Xer. #BothSides

Yeah I stopped reading because my sarcasm detection is turned off this week and I saw a line basically saying not all boomers. I am here to agree in that sure it isn’t all boomers but it might as well be. Currently watching boomer relatives preach politics and other world views that, they either don’t keep themselves…

Exactly. There’s certainly a discussion to be had about what I guess you might call “relative privilege”, and how privilege is often context-dependent. Like for me, as a white, middle-class, cis-gendered guy who is also on the autism spectrum, so long as I can show up, nod politely, and not start talking about Lord of…

They aren’t friends.

It must be reflective of Boomers’ collective guilt that this stings so bad and unlike GenX, y’all don’t take their criticisms to heart - good for you! That or it’s all just crocodile tears and pearl clutching.

I agree with you - This is the simplest shit. If you are not an asshole boomer who votes against the planet and everyone else so racist assholes can continue to destroy the environment and extract every ounce of profit from all of us - then “Ok, Boomer” is not about you. But we’re all so damn tired of arguing with…

That’s....awful... (- _ -)

There’s an article on WaPo right now that’s seriously suggesting that young people “volunteer” to provide elder care (outside their own families) when people don’t even want actual paid caregiving work because it’s so shitty, which I feel is the written embodiment of the “ok boomer” concept.

yeah, i see it used by every single age group from 12 year olds to 35 year olds and across all economic and ethnic groups. all of them. 

Agreed, and the staff deserved so much better than having the rest of the GMG Union turn their backs on them. Kotaku, Gizmodo and Deadspin all banded together, but when Splinter got shutdown, all we heard were crickets...not even a mention of it anywhere else on kinja.

So I am white, hetero, and cis-gendered. I did not grow UP insulated by wealth in any way.

I just can’t get over the fact that the generation that has spent the last however many years bitching incessantly and generalizing about millennials is now so incredibly butthurt over “Ok Boomer”.  I mean, c’mon. 

jesus christ it’s like people are determined to take the fun out of this meme.

-30 in Montana, 60 degrees warmer in Anchorage. Idaho had its coldest October since the 1890s and this week it’s going to hit 60 above. Nope, nothing to see here, move along. Back to Fox news for the truth.