As a queer person (agender) with a conservative dad, I don’t get why he says he wants to go back to the 1950s. What was so special back then besides his reasoning that times were simpler? I feel like it would be harder for me then as a queer person.

  • ☭ Blursty ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 hours ago

    It’s literally why they’re called “boomers”, it was an economic boom.

    It’s short for “Baby Boomers”, because there was a huge baby boom after WW2.

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          Just a stupid joke on the tendency people have to try to reconstruct etymology from the top down rather than bottom up, often using tenuous logical connections lol

          Boomers are called that because they were born after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

          Zoomers are the generation of high speed rail and fast cars

          Gen alpha are all chads due to the hormones used in agriculture