Citations:boomersplain

English citations of boomersplain

• 2016 February 6, CCBOhio, “Let's just stop boomersplaining politics to millennials”, in Daily Kos‎^[1]:

  Please: Stop boomersplaining and start listening. Smug columns like the one you just published may be satisfying to write, but they do nothing to increase understanding or communication. They do not serve the public interest, or even the long-term interest of the Democratic Party.

• 2016 February 8, Kelcie Grega, “Don't boomersplain your feminism to me”, in The State Press‎^[2]:

  The political and social climate of this year’s presidential election has gotten me used to having things boomersplained to me by people with the wisdom and "experience” to know what they’re talking about.

• 2018 October 27, Henry DeVries, “How To Overcome Call Reluctance”, in Forbes‎^[3]:

  “Back in the day,” I, the baby boomer, explained in a whisper, “we used to have to pick up a piece of the phone to make a call.” / “Oh, I’ve seen the old movies,” she said. Ouch. If she wanted, I told her later I would explain travel agents, the post office, and the concept of clockwise. That wasn’t mansplaining, that was boomersplaining.

• 2022 October 17, Megan McArdle, “Gen X is used to flying under the radar. That’ll end if it goes full GOP.”, in The Washington Post‎^[4]:

  But there hasn’t been much of a collective critique of Generation X since the early 1990s, when the media decided that we were inveterate slackers, and Time magazine boomersplained that Xers “have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own. They crave entertainment, but their attention span is as short as one zap of a TV dial.”