Watch a lot of Star Trek, and even joined a trek club.
No.
Real selfish?
Yes. I practice rational selfishness.
Don't like to share?
Depends on what it is. If it's a portion of my life that I'm forced at the point of a gun to share, then no.
Don't necessarily want kids?
Sometimes.
Sex is casually completed and expected?
Nope. Quality over quantity - and never really completed.
Feel unloved?
Nope. Of course that's kind of difficult with a very large family.
Don't trust and skeptical of institutions?
Yep.
Wary of commitment and pessimistic about the future?
Nope. Been married for 15 years. The future's so bright I gotta wear shades.
Give into pain and anger and are confrontal and uncooperative when you don't get your way?
Nope. The 3 R's point the way: reason, rationality, and reality.
Cowardly when faced with emotional trauma?
Nope, but I have been accused of being cold hearted with faced with emotional issues like death and tragedy.
Adrenaline junkie?
Nope.
Take too many risks?
Only calculated risks, but maybe too many.
Think apologizes solve the problem when you screw up?
Nope, but it helps.
Truth and reason don't matter?
See the note above in relation to selfishness and the one below on morality.
Religion, pfffttt, stupid even though you've never studied the scriptures and are completely ignorant of the bible?
Nope, I was properly raised.
Alcoholic?
Nope, I drink very little.
Bad hygiene?
Never.
No boundaries for you, just for other people?
Boundaries are self imposed.
No responsibilities unless YOU want them?
That would be nice, but no.
Ambitious to the point of backstabbing cruelty?
Nope. I'm the quintessential "nice guy". However, I'm learning to not be so nice. I wish I had ice in my veins sometimes, but can't always seem to muster it.
Have selective morals and values?
Moral relativism is a crutch for the morally bankrupt and weak.
Check my posting history Hi Heels. It's very telling of my nature.
Thus the point. You don't necessarily meet all the negative criteria for your generation and shouldn't be held responsible for their shortcomings. No one should use a broad brush and paint a picture of you that isn't true.
Holding the Boomers or GenX responsible as a whole to the point of denying hardworking people food and a roof after a lifetime of work is dishonest, morally disreputable, rehensible as a society, and wrong. I've worked 35 years and put half MY money in the system, too. Just like you. And now GX'ers come around and say, "no ssi for you because your generation approved abortion and let the left take over". BULL.
Ditto for me, pal. I have just as much right to my own money as you do. I'm not responsible for Jane Fonda anymore than you are responsible for Johnny Depp or Sean Penn. There are ways to repair the system, but with attitudes like "let them starve", nothing will work. You come from a big family? Mom and Dad on SSI? Grandpa? Shouldn't we jerk the money out from under them now?
In foreign countries, families take responsibilities for their elder generations. To use that same broad brush, neither the Boomers or Gen X seem predisposed to do that.