Talk:Me generation

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To address the confusion that will inevitably arise due to the similarities of Generation Me and Me Generation, I've added the {{for}} template.^[1] Toddst1 (talk) 19:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

I notice someone recently deleted every mention of "baby boomers" from the article, replacing it with "1970s generation". This is confusing and not how the sources describe the term. The 1970s generation could be interpreted to mean people born in the 1970s, and this is not who is referred to by the term Me generation in the sources. --DynaGirl (talk) 13:43, 20 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the feedback DynaGirl. I deleted several, but not all, mentions of baby boomers because the Me Generation is really specific to the people who were young adults in the mid to late 1970s, based on sources I've read and included in the article. Tom Wolf didn't even coin the term Me Decade until 1976 or so. The baby boomers would also include those people who came of age in the protest and hippie era of the 1960s; the term was not used at that time. It could possibly be argued based on sources that the 'protest' boomers of the 1960s evolved into the more introspective and self-involved adults of the mid to late 1970s, but we'd have to find sources for that. Most of what I've read says these were two separate waves of young adults, the hippie and protest boomers of the 1960s and the Me Generation of the mid to late 1970s and even 80s. What I was trying to make clear here was that the term was specific to the mid to late 1970s, and did not encompass the entirety of the Baby Boomers as was earlier stated. Maybe we can figure out a way to word it better. ABF99 (talk) 20:19, 20 February 2017 (UTC) I've tweaked your revision a bit; hopefully that clarifies it better. ABF99 (talk) 20:31, 20 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

My research area of interest is generations and I've never seen a source which describes the Me generation that way. The references make clear that the Me generation is a term referring to baby boomers. Many of the references are book sources which aren't linked online, but please check the reference which is at the end of the sentence where you just tweaked the text to say the term "me generation" only refers to those baby boomers which came of age during mid to late 1970s. You'll see that this change is not supported by the source cited, and that it's actually contradicted by the source cited. That reference refers to the 60s. It uses the starting birth date of 1946 and ascribes the "me" characteristic to being raised during post-war prosperity [1]. --DynaGirl (talk) 12:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

I'm with Dyna Girl. The "Me Generation" refers to the baby boomers. The portrayal of it as a term that passes from generation to generation is a bit stretched, especially if you look at the pervasiveness of the label attached to the baby boomers even as they age. For example, Time called the millennials the "Me me me Generation", which prompted some discussion in 2013/2014, but the label hasn't been used since (in trade for "the woke generation", and other labels that have.) 70.102.128.106 (talk) 18:49, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

What is the point of the photo of the two young women on the street? How does this show "entertainment and consumer culture"? They're just standing on a busy street drinking sodas. Also, the photo of the three "clubbers" is actually from Sweden, and this article is about social development in the USA. Mgolden (talk) 20:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Having read this article for the first time, something odd jumped out at me. Tom Wolfe described the '70s as the "Me Decade," but didn't treat it as especially generational, e.g., he discusses things that were happening by the early '60s, and how people like Eugene McCarthy (b. 1916) and Wayne Hays (b. 1911) felt that it had become socially acceptable to get divorced by the early '70s. Amy Henderson's Smithsonian article *does* call it generational, and while she (mis?-)attributes this to Wolfe, her citation is to this article (as it existed in 2014). I've never knowingly encountered a wikipedia article before, whose primary reference was someone citing the very same wikipedia article.

73.118.175.32 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:15, 27 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for pointing this out. This is a known problem. See WP:CITOGENESIS. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 07:49, 31 October 2024 (UTC)Reply