Butting in on fashion: Gen-X sinks to new lows

Houston Chronicle ^ | August 3, 2003 | MICHELLE MALKIN

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Remember those hip hugger short shorts?

*sigh* yeah...

[E Rocc]

Many gen yers are much more conservative than xers. While we did grow up under Clinton, we saw liberalism for the sham it is. We saw the growth of the Conservative media and grew up listening to Rush and watching Fox. I think we're a lot more promising than the previous generation. We can't be blamed for society's problems when we're just graduating college and voted in our first presidential election in 2000.

We were pretty similar....we had the hippies, McGovern, and finally Carter to show us what garbage leftism/appeasism was and Reagan (or in my case Goldwater and Heinlein) to show us the value of conservatism. My dad (born 1936) moved strongly right during that period for many of the same reasons.

On the jeans issue, I have a pair of low-rise jeans that were on clearance at Old Navy. I HATE them. I'm constantly having to pull them up and can only wear my longer shirts with them. I think it's extremely tacky when I see girls' thongs showing. I think it says a lot about a girl's morals.

A lot of 80s styles were criticized for many of the same reasons. My personal experience, then and now, is that there's not a direct relationship between outfits and morals. I've known plenty of women with shaky morals that dress(ed) conservatively, and plenty that liked to show off but maintained their standards. It usually doesn't take long to tell which is which.

-Eric

[weegee]

Don't blame me, all of Generation X is over 30 these days. We didn't suddenly become "baby boomers", we are the baby bust generation. These fashion victims are the kids of the baby boomers (the generation that came AFTER mine).

[manic4organic]

Crack kills.

[gnarledmaw]

Michelle, gen-x'ers still worried about fashion are probably too simple to read your column. Arent you talking about folks a lot younger?

[Seamus Mc Gillicuddy]

Gen Xers are anyone born from 1966 to 1975. After that you have Gen Y's or "Why's", because no one can understand WHY most of the youngsters in that generation have their goals and priorities seriously out of focus.

[qam1]

and less whiny than Gen-Xers, who all thought they were going to change the world (gee, wonder where they got that idea from) through their big dotcom fraud, and are all pissed off that they didn't get to retire at 30 after all.

What are you talking about??, You are so WRONG!!!!!!!

I hate to tell you but we Gen-Xers did change the world, Unlike the Baby Boomers who accomplished nothing and are basically self serving parasites we spawned the internet and brought in the new era of the Information Age which has had an overall major positive effect all over the world that will be felt and enjoyed for generations to come.

And so what if a lot of dot.com companies went bust, The Automobile and Airplane also changed the world and look how many makers of those things went bust early on that didn't mean cars and planes were failures.

When we set out to change the world we created something unlike the Boomers who when the set out to change the world instead of creating something they instead became Lawyers and we all know how wonderful it is that we have all these lawyers and regulations running around.

Compare the Legacy

Gen-X

Spawned a new era in the history of mankind: The Information Age

Will Fight and Win the war on Terrorism.

Voted in a Republican Majority*

VS

The Baby Boomers

The ACLU,  Activist Judges, Junk Science, Tune in, Turn on and drop out, Anti-smoking/Health/Safety Nazis, RINOS, Destruction of the Nuclear Family, Destruction of the Black Extended family, Frivolous lawsuit, The Constitution as a living document, The Welfare State, The Nanny State, It it feels good do it, The Liberal Media elite, The founding fathers were nothing more than evil slave owners, Sound bites over substance or facts, Abortion on demand, The Clintons, Seatbelt laws, Feminism, Tree Huggers, Criminals that have more rights than the victim, Meathead, Blame America First, Latch key kids, Kids being raised by their grandparents and/or strangers, Helmet laws for Motorcycles, Helmet laws for freaking Bicycles, Cradle to grave entitlements, War on Fat, 21 year old drinking age, Yuppies, Careers over your children, Hatred of the Military, Reporters who think they are not only part of but bigger than the story they are covering, Focus groups, Weekend dads, Single moms, Prisoner rights groups, Prozac, Ritilin, Viagra, ½ our income going for taxes, America owes me, Living past failed dreams through your children, Cocktail Parties with the likes of Micheal Bloomberg, Turning an educational system that once was the best in the world to S!@, The 2nd Amendment doesn't mean the Right to bear arms, Peacekeepers instead of soldiers, The weakening of the CIA, Power Couples, Soccer Moms, NPR, Eradication of Dodge Ball, It's all society's fault type excuses and made up syndromes instead of personal responsibility, and so many more but I will close with.  

And an Obscene National Debt that WE have to pay off.

I sense extreme jealously on your part and I understand your hostility it must be hard being in a generation that has accomplished nothing and has fully or partially destroyed many great American institutions and values. You will go down as being the worst generation in American history. It must be especially hard since you are sandwiched between two Generations that has and will accomplish much and has had such a positive effect on the world.  

* Yes we did vote in a Republican majority in Congress, Senate and White House but unfortuanetely those Republicans we voted in also happen to be Baby boomers and just like everything else connected to that pitiful generation they to are turning out to be failures.

[Timesink]

I sense extreme jealously on your part and I understand your hostility it must be hard being in a generation that has accomplished nothing and has fully or partially destroyed many great American institutions and values.

Hey Xen, check out post 107 for a good giggle. Would you like to give this kid his reality check, or should I?

[DragonflyX]

Amen! A PROUD Xer

[LibertarianInExile]

Sorry. According to the authorities you're a Gen-Xer.

I'd prefer to be a Baby Boomer, too. But wishing doesn't make it so. If it did, I'd be King of the World, and then I'd make you a Baby Boomer, I promise.

[Xenalyte]

You'd best do it . . . I'm laughing too hard to type correctly.

[LibertarianInExile]

Well said.

[LibertarianInExile]

Gee, thanks. I guess I will go build a shrine to baby boomers now. Anything else we should worship y'all for?

I hope you were joking.

[Yardstick]

I was born in 1976 and consider myself a Gen Xer. I HATE rap, my first movie was star wars and the first game I played was Pac Man in the arcade. There is a BIG difference, I have noticed, between myself and those just two years younger than me.

I was born in 1974, which makes me a later gen-X, too. Star Wars is a big cultural watershed -- I saw it in the theatre and it was HUGE. I wonder if the two year difference you mention might have something to do with the slightly-younger crowd not having had Star Wars seared into their sub-conscious. My first game was Space Invaders, btw.

[LibertarianInExile]

Correlation is causation.

Therefore, since birds poop on statues all over the world, statues must cause birds to poop.

In fact, if there was a school with formal attire required, it would be the BEST school in the country.

/sarcasm

I'm sure the principal's strictness was useful, but self-selection probably played a role in the school's success. And I would hazard a guess that the principal knew all or most of the students. A study done a couple of years ago cross-checked all the variables that might affect education. The variable that made the most substantial difference? School size. Administrator-to-student-ratio, i.e., CHIEF principal to student ratio, is the biggest factor in student success, no matter what class size, teacher pay, or economic situation the school is in.

That's why Joe Clark kicked ass, and why California is a black hole educationally.

I wish I had the documentation on that survey. It was impressive--therefore, it was buried, and we continue to build monster schools nationwide.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

"(T)he butt crack is the new cleavage

LOL!

[LibertarianInExile]

Okay, maybe this post was a little overboard. Consider therapy. Gen X doesn't deserve some sort of hero status! Neither does any other; most folks pretty much just live their lives. It's only those who go beyond the call of duty to sacrifice themselves for others that are true heros.

Perhaps in that sense, Gen X will be heroic; it will certainly pay the freight for the Baby Boom and prevent Gen Y from going broke.

[snowstorm12]

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
We Xers didn't start butt crack jeans...
But we tried to fight it

[Eaker]

Okay,

You owe me a new pair of eyeballs. I need them by tomorrow morning!!!!!! Size medium, status bugged out (now)!! Any color will do!

Eaker

[Eva]

You're right it was a relatively small school, 2000 students in grades 7-12. It was a unified school district for two townships that had previously had no high school at all. The amazing thing is that the school was twenty minutes (12 miles) from downtown Philadelphia. When my parents moved there in the 50s, there you had to pick your mail up at the general store and we had our groceries delivered. The high school was built a few years later.