A new article that tries to make the phrase “geriatric millennial” happen is facing ridicule from older millennials who are ready to just be treated like regular adults.
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Millennials have been the subject of boomer ire and dismissal for as long as think pieces have circulated the internet. We demolish entire industries due to our inability to purchase frivolous things, we don’t save enough money because we’re too busy eating avocado toast, we’re stunted and have spent too much time living at home—never mind the economic failures and lack of living wage job opportunities that caused it. The blame game has always acted as if millennials are children, even as the oldest among us are pushing 40.
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But a Medium post from Erica Dhawan about “why the hybrid workforce of the future depends on the ‘geriatric millennial’” jumps the gun entirely, signaling a move from treating millennials like we’re all still naive college students to acting like we’re at the end of the line.
Dhawan, who identifies as a “geriatric millennial” herself doesn’t seem to have coined the term herself, which refers to millennials born between 1980 and 1985. But her post certainly drew the attention — and ire — of people who aren’t ready to be treated as if they have one foot in the grave just yet.
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Others latched on to the term, ready to accept whatever lame labels the media doles out because as millennials, we’ve really just learned to put up with it.
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The actual article manages to take aim at boomers and zoomers as well, insisting that “geriatric millennials” are the only people on earth who understand technology while also being able to do basic things like take phone messages and read body language. Boomers are too out of touch with the modern world and members of Gen Z are painted by the author as alarmingly inept and socially stunted blobs that need to be shaped and formed by people born specifically between 1980 and 1985.
Meanwhile, Gen Xers and younger millennials (aka the majority of the generation) apparently don’t exist at all.
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Medium responded to the situation by running a poll to see what term 36-40 year old millennials would prefer to be referred to by in the future, but perhaps it’s time to lay think pieces about our generation to rest entirely. Haven’t we had enough?
*First Published: May 16, 2021, 8:56 am
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