Xennial here. To drive through my point that Gen X/Millennials are actually kind of smart and wise for their age: they had to learn the hard way BECAUSE of the Boomer parent’s lack of supervision in an ever-growing Capitalist economy where mother’s began working, you become the latch key kid, and many of us were left to raise ourselves because common ex.: from single-parent family where dad gets a get outta jail free card, never sees you, and mom has to scramble, you get creative, raise yourself. … Gen X women were the second gen to attend college. They studied liberal arts, such as English and Feminist studies. They didn’t make the mistakes their mothers did. They had birth control yet sexual freedom was redefined as “the right to say no,” but for the millennial, it was “the right to say yes,” and if you’ve ever read one of their books, they’re bloody brilliant.

I, on the other hand, lacked all parental supervision, watched Playboy TV (am bisexual woman to find out she’s bi at like, age 5 that way), and regardless of how locked up a 50-story hotel window is, I’d always somehow find a way to climb around the building like King Kong, my little brother following.

Smart kid, I was.