Gen X In The News: Generation X Dads Are the Balm and More
Here are the latest links to Gen X in the news. One of the most significant differences between Generation X and other generations is how much more time Generation X dads spend with their kids. They...
View ArticleWhy Baby Boomers Dislike Generation X
Generation X in the News A student named Molly wrote a scathing editorial for the University of Pittsburgh’s, The Llama Ledger about just how much Baby Boomers dislike Generation X. But with great...
View Article1973 Afterschool Special on Divorce: My Dad Lives In A Downtown Hotel
Latchkey Generation During my first two years of high school, I lived in Southeast Kansas. My parents both worked 20 miles away, across the border in Oklahoma. I was the quintessential latchkey kid....
View ArticleGen X Men and Misandry
Why do 80 men kill themselves every week? Why are 90 percent of the homeless men? Why do men die, on average, six years before women? Why don’t men as a group exist? Gen X Men and Misandry I am posting...
View ArticleMen Acting Like Boys | Have Gen X men rebelled against the role of provider?
In an editorial in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, writer Maria Sciullo asserts that growing up has been hard to do for Generation X men as well as their younger, Gen Y counterparts. She cites the...
View ArticleGen X CEO leaves job for personal reasons. Really.
I am just fascinated by an article in Canadian Business about WestJet CEO Sean Durfy, 43, who resigned from his position on March 15 for “personal reasons.” People often claim personal reasons when...
View ArticleGeneration X Men in Midlife Crisis and Generational Inadequacies
Generation X Men in Midlife Crisis Today, Jonathon Yip responds to A.O. Scott’s New York Times essay about Generation X men in midlife crisis. (I wrote about Scott’s essay last week.) Yip’s essay...
View ArticleGrown Ups: Gen X Boys Will Be Boys. Some Longer Than Others
Boys Will Be Boys Finally, a movie for all those Generation X boys who refuse to grow up. Grown Ups: Boys will be Boys…Some Longer Than Others opens today nationwide. It’s playing at Harkins in...
View ArticleIncreased Suicide Rate For Generation X and Young Baby Boomers
Through the good times and the bad I’ll be standin’there by you… From Bryan Adams and Heaven Possibly the most startling indicator of just how devastating the impact of the current recession (the one...
View ArticleWhy Generation X Dads Matter to the Timberland Company
I like learning about Generation ,and I like learning about brand strategy, so I really enjoyed this presentation about the Timberland Company and their need to market to an audience with whom they’ve...
View ArticleModern Family Aims For Generation X Moms and Dads
You have about 24 hours to catch up on the entire first season of the Emmy-award winning sitcom, Modern Family. The DVD of the first season was released today. Read more about it on the popular blog,...
View ArticleMale Friendship | Men Of A Certain Age
I posed a question about TNT’s show Men of a Certain Age on the Facebook page for this blog and a reader, Juli, responded that her husband never misses an episode. I’ve never seen it, but it looks...
View ArticleIs This How To Dress Like A Man?
What does it mean to dress like a man? According to a new survey conducted by Men’s Wearhouse, there is an upswing in the way men are dressing. During a recession, men dress down down, and dressing...
View ArticlePassat Star Wars Commercial Anthem to Generation X
According to the blogger Penelope Trunk, the Volkswagon Passat Star Wars commercial is an anthem to Generation X. After watching it a few times, I agree with her. I appreciate all the great things she...
View ArticleMy Uncles Can Beat Up Your Uncles | Intergenerational Child Abuse
Editor’s Note: The following is a personal essay written by Mike Waltman, and originally posted on his Facebook page. When you read it, you will understand why it drew such a positive response. As...
View ArticleThe Indie Film Loveless: Generation X in Midlife Crisis
“We’re all adults now and we’re all going to die soon.” –From Loveless, 2011 Last night, was the world premiere of Loveless, an independent film by Ramin Serry about Generation X in midlife crisis....
View ArticleFatherless Men, Fatherless Generation
There will come a time I will look in your eye You will pray to the God that you always denied Then I’ll go out back and I’ll get my gun I’ll say, “You haven’t met me, I am the only son” –From Mumford...
View ArticleFirst Recession Novel is Rocket Man, 40-Something Dads in Hell
40-Something Dads Rocket Man by William Hazelgrove is a novel that captures a 40-something man in hell. The Catcher in the Rye for Generation X men, it nails the times in which we live with the...
View ArticleJennifer Government and The Democratic Republic of Gen X Men
Your world was made up of things sweet and good My world could never fit in, I wish it could — From Miller and West Jennifer Government In 2003, Max Barry wrote Jennifer Government, a satricial...
View ArticleHave Generation X women given up on sex?
Have you given up on sex? Erica Jong (b. 1942) has a new book, Sugar In My Bowl: Real Women Write About Sex. Jong is best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying, which “created a sensation with its...
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