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The Day of the Pillow is coming. And most Boomers simply don’t understand why they, and everything they stand for, are so hated by the younger generations, each of which has its different reasons.

Gen X has always hated the Boomers, even before we had a word for it. Even when we didn’t realize the extent to which they literally murdered a third of our generation and destroyed another third of our families through divorce, (something hitherto rare and virtually unknown) we were aware of how they were suppressing everything from our music on the radio to what should have been our brief moment in the sun.

Number one most requested, for the 25th year in a row… Stairway to Heaven!

One would have thought that a generation that defined itself by its preferred music would have understood that the younger generation was as disinterested in their music as they were in their predecessors’ music, but that was entirely beyond the Boomers. And their refusal to retire or even make the same union benefits that they enjoyed available to us had a very serious negative impact on our employment prospects as well as our careers.

The Millennials hated them for economic reasons. The seminal Saturday Night Live skit Millennial Millions summed it up beautifully, although I can’t link to it because it appears to be one of the few SNL skits not on YouTube. That was the first time I became aware that the Millennials didn’t like them any better than we Gen Xers did.

But the disdain for the Boomers harbored by Gen X and the Millennials is like a candle before the raging inferno of the Zoomers hatred for them. They don’t even know what was taken from them, exactly, they only know that the Boomers were primarily responsible for the world that they lost without ever knowing it. It’s the Zoomers that have made Boomer into a catch-all epithet

Which is probably why this particular strip has been the most popular Hypergamouse cartoon of them all.

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UPDATE: It took literally five minutes for a Boomer to start booming about how the deeds of a generation across their entire collective lifetimes somehow wasn’t their fault.

Boomers were generations in the making. You have the wrong target and your hatred will get you to a place you don’t want to be.

The Boomers literally never grew up. They’re entering their 80s now and they still can’t take any responsibility for their own actions across more than sixty years of putative adulthood.

Our hatred is not misplaced. God himself hates the wicked. Moreover, He appears to harbor particular hate for wicked generations.