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Topic: Generation X

Young man at home paying his bills online (Getty Images/AleksandarNakic)

The financial worry of Gen X parents

Quinn Sental
Young cancer patient resting in a hospital on bed. (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Cancer rates rise for Gen X, Millenials

Matthew Rozsa
Missing child concept with an empty playground swing and the shadow of a little girl on the park ground (Getty Images/wildpixel)

What '80s kids also remember

Paul Crenshaw
Paul Reubens rides a bike in a scene from the film 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure', 1985. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

Pee-wee Herman keeps Gen X forever young

Melanie McFarland
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Tina Turner performs on stage at the Gelredome on March 21st, 2009 in Arnhem, Netherlands. (Rob Verhorst/Redferns/Getty Images)

Icon Tina Turner was simply the best

Melanie McFarland
Topher Grace as Eric Forman, Laura Prepon as Donna Pinciotti on "That ‘90s Show" (Patrick Wymore/Netflix)

That nostalgic '90s Show is all alright

Melanie McFarland
He-Man toy (Carlos Tischler/Getty Images)

He-Man: Master of my Gen X universe

Jason Prokowiew
Ethan Hawke sits with Winona Ryder in a scene from the film 'Reality Bites', 1994. (Universal/Getty Images)

Why Gen X grew up to skew Republican

Melanie McFarland
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Director and producer Ivan Reitman on the exterior set of "Animal House" in Studio City, California, 1978 (Paul Harris/Getty Images)

Ivan Reitman, boomer for Gen X nihilism

Gwydion Suilebhan, Steven Gimbel
English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, Billy Idol in 1987 (Ross Marino/Getty Images)

20 facts about Generation X

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Rainbow behind a stone cross with Jesus (Getty Images/Werner Images)

Young evangelicals ditching culture wars

Terry Shoemaker - The Conversation
Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, presenter during First Annual Spike TV's Guys Choice (Chris Polk/FilmMagic)

Gen Xers are nostalgic for these PSAs

Nicole Johnson - Mental Floss
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Collage of paperback version of "Generation X" by Douglas Coupland (Fawcett Gold Medal Book)

Coupland's "Gen X" is still relevant

Diletta De Cristofaro - The Conversation
"Cobra Kai" (Sony Pictures Television)

Cobra Kai & middle-aged masculinity

Panizza Allmark - The Conversation
Ok Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic (Photos illustration by Salon/Atria/One Signal Publishers/Gary He)

OK Boomer, time to listen

Amanda Marcotte
Young adult man wearing a pollution mask to protect himself from viruses. His friends are in the background. They all are wearing masks. (Getty Images)

The new generation gap

Matthew Rozsa
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Controversial UK Author Elizabeth Wurtzel (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

I'm a member of Wurtzel's Prozac Nation

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Greta Thunberg, the climate strike, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

2020s: The "OK Boomer" Decade?

Amanda Marcotte
Ric Ocasek and Eddie Money (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh/Darron Cummings)

More loss for the MTV generation

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer (Getty/Kevin Winter)

Gen X exists! Just listen to Weezer

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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David Hogg and other demonstrators lie on the floor at a Publix Supermarket in Coral Springs, Fla., May 25, 2018. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Our kids have no idols, and that's good

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Squeezed" by Alissa Quart (Harper Collins/Ann Fox)

Middle class shame is real

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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She's the breadwinner and OK with it

Amy Gesenhues
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Millennial women struggle to afford kids

Nicole Karlis
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