Originally Posted by ThePrude

WildWoman, I hope my comment about Obama being "overwhelmed" didn't come off as having to do with his age/generation. It was his resume that I was questioning. I didn't read the article you mentioned, but I agree with you that it's bullshit for baby boomers to discount the rest of us.

Originally Posted by Wildwoman

No, and in fact I owe you an apology. I did mean to state that I was only using Fen’s question to you as a handy jumping-off point to be able to quote Obama being the same age as Bill when he was elected and then I never put it in. I was not directing that at you. Sorry.

Originally Posted by fen99us

Firing them means nothing. I remember a local political scandal with our former governor against our mayor at the time (is now our governor). The governor claimed, as well as the employee in question, that this employee acted on his own and he was fired. The employee even went on to apologize blah blah, whatever. Everyone knew it was done on purpose and the employee was a fall guy. He probably even got a pay out. I never trust that "oh but we fired him, see we're clean" BS. It's called taking one for the team.

Originally Posted by Wildwoman

Yeah, it’s A Thing for me. When I was in high school and didn’t know anyone else interested in my kind of politics and activism and such, I was obsessed with the 60s and wishing I’d been young then. I accept that a lot of the depth of my feelings come from this, but I don’t think I’m actually getting anything extremely wrong, and in the main, I’ve certainly never seen anyone of that generation question the idea that being who I am/was is being a ‘60s-type person.’ I do think identifying myself as an activist - or at least having done so for 20 years - causes these things to stand out a lot.

Then when I finally got my chance to study feminism and do activism it just seemed like we were still overshadowed by the 60s, like it could only belong to them. Then I started to get angry. I was involved in activism against the Gulf War and the one time I ever heard anyone admit such a thing existed on the news was someone talking about people spitting on soldiers coming home – 72 hours into the war, when no soldiers had actually returned home. I thought, wow, so my generation is being sent to war now, and still we don’t exist.