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forgotmyoldacc they/them  1yr ago (text post) 340 thread views #217239

:marseyboomer: Boomer - Zoomer :marseyzoomer: Intergenerational Dialogue Thread

The point of this thread is to foster intergenerational solidarity between the boomers and zoomers of rdrama.net by getting to know about each other's generation more. Boomers ask questions about zoomers and zoomers answer them, and vice versa.

I'll start.

Is it true that each zoomer has their own personal Groomercord server where they invite their friends? Like, you don't just have one Groomercord server for your entire friend group, in addition to that, every single one of you has their own personal Groomercord server, and you all invite each other into your personal servers?

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Is it true that boomers hate their wives? :marseygrilling2:

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:marseyakshually: Boomers take it as implicit that every man loves his wife, and so they feel no fear when they joke about hating her. From their perspective, they're just pointing out the frustrations and difficulties that inevitably arise when two people are deeply enmeshed in each others lives. The Boomers are reacting to a very idealized, very saccharine, mostly Christian image of love and marriage they were presented with in their youth, and they're still thumbing their noses at it to this day - even after many of the people who pushed it are dead.

Younger generations don't have this background, nor the same assumptions, and tend to see Boomer jokes as more spiteful than intended.

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:marseyakshually: The Christian image of marriage isn't some lovey-dovey fairytale. What you're describing is the pop-culture interpretation of marriage.

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The Boomers are reacting to a very idealized, very saccharine, mostly Christian image of love and marriage they were presented with in their youth

This is also what shows like Married with Children and The Simpsons were originally aiming at: deconstructing the ideal "Leave It To Beaver" family depiction the post-war period. However, at some point the cynicism became the norm. I blame 9/11 and the 2000s for "locking in" this cultural cynicism.

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