gen x or boomer



For those trifling over the parameters of Generation X (a term that was popularized in modern usage by one Douglas Coupland, who was born in 1961), I have come up with a fool-proof method. Even though researchers generally agree that it stretches from 1961-1981, if you identify with the film The Breakfast Club, you are Gen X; if you identify with The Big Chill, you are a Boomer. By jove, I have solved the quandary!

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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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2 Responses to gen x or boomer

  1. Unknown's avatar hetyd4580 says:

    Nice blog you've got here, Muffy, but researchers certainly do not generally agree that GenX starts in 1961. The mid-1960s is the far more common start point for GenX.Many experts now believe it breaks down more or less this way:DEMOGRAPHIC boom in babies: 1946-1964Baby Boom GENERATION: 1942-1953Generation Jones: 1954-1965Generation X: 1966-1978Generation Y/Millennials: 1979-1993

  2. hi, thanks for chiming in, hety!although i am aware of the 46-64 numbers, there are several other studies that list 61 as their starting point…so i decided to take it all the way back to be as complete as possible. there are absolutely variations and that is to be expected. but thanks for checking in with your own! xoxo

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