We already accepted this a long time ago, azzhole.

BREAKING NEWS! Generation X hits middle age

Generation X, consumers of popular culture that they are, can be forgiven for feeling a little long in the tooth these days.

Many of them remember Bruce Springsteen's smash hit 'Dancing in the Dark,' which in the mid-'80s was a staple of early MTV, MuchMusic, and Gen X high school dances. He turned 60 a few days ago.

And that girl in the video -- Courteney Cox -- who would become a staple of Gen X TV, first on Family Ties and then on Friends, just last week she took on a new role: a 40-year-old single mom in the new series Cougar Town.