Clueless writers should have their keyboards taken away

Here we have an idiot that makes it seem as though before last week's Farrah and Michael Jackson deaths, Generation X was just an immature bunch that played in sandboxes with toy trucks and Barbie dolls.

Although I don't consider myself a "Pillar of Maturity" I'm sure I was more grown up as a 5th grader than a typical baby boomer at a similar age. I know I'm not a alone with this thought, either. Fuck, a good portion of us went home to empty houses after school and had to make our food and manage our time much earlier than other generations still alive today.

"These people were on our lunchboxes," said Gary Giovannetti, 38, who grew up on Long Island awash in Farrah and MJ iconography. "This," he said, "is the moment when generation X realises they're grown up."

It was a long time coming. Cynical, disaffected, rife with attention deficit disorder, lost between boomers and millennials and sandwiched between Vietnam and the war on terrorism, gen X has always been an oddity. It was the product of a transitional age when we were still putting people on celebrity pedestals but only starting to make an industry out of dragging them down.

NOTE: I love how this clown quotes 1 GenXster and then tries to make his point around it. As though Gary Giovannetti has been appointed by us as our official spokesman.

Also note how this asshole somehow wants to attribute today's "Celebrity Culture" to Gen X. WTF? Any fool knows that Gen Y members Britney, Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton not only deserve the credit for this, they also want the credit for this.