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I’ve heard this cohort between the Boomers and X’ers referred to as Generation Jones many times, but never as Tweeners. Out of curiosity, I just spent some time researching this today, and found that my experience with this is matched by the research. The term Generation Jones has been used many hundreds (maybe thousands?) of times across a large number of major media outlets, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Associated Press, NBC, CNN, etc. Many notable individuals have used this term Generation Jones as well, including numerous major business, political, and entertainment figures. Moreover, many online dictionaries include the term Generation Jones to describe this cohort between Boom and X.
By contrast, the term “Tweeners” has hardly ever been used for this cohort. There are a few usages in very minor media publications, like small blogs, but no serious usage anywhere that I could find: in the media, among prominent individuals, or anywhere else. Many online dictionaries include the word “Tweener” but not with this meaning. Instead, they define Tweener to mean other things, like young people between childhood and adolescence, players who are in between two different positions in a sport, people who feel in between two different cultures, etc. None of these Tweener definitions in dictionaries, with one minor exception, make any reference to Boomers/X’ers. Even the website tweeners.org doesn’t define it that way. And looking back over the many years of contributions to this Generation Jones Wikipedia articles, I couldn’t find anybody, except Scarpy now, who has ever suggested that the term “Tweener” should be used as a synonym for Generation Jones.
Scarpy, I assume you come from a place of good faith, and care about accuracy in Wikipedia articles. From what I’ve seen of your contributions to Wikipedia, you seem like a serious contributor who has made numerous helpful and accurate edits. If you believe I’m wrong vis-a-vis my above research, please cite references in this Talk section that would back up the idea that “Tweener” has been used as a synonym for Generation Jones enough in the public to warrant that positioning in this Wiki article. Otherwise, I respectfully submit to you that it should not be included in this article. It’s not accurate to use it here, and it creates confusion in relation to the ways that the term Tweener is actually used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CultureMaven2000 (talk • contribs) 22:59, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
After seeing this edit, I searched for "Trailing-Edge Boomers" on Google, and a few other search engines. It has very little usage; much less than "Generation Jones". So I removed it for accuracy sake. -- 23:48, 11 June 2021 69.3.119.202
This thing includes very specific opinions for this cohort generation, all attributed to Pontell. E.g. Trump’s statements about Biden’s age, that is not a generational opinion. His views are not dispositive even if he coined the term. It’s a dumb one, I was born in 1964 and have only heard the term “Jones” rarely and that was on tv, and never used it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sychonic (talk • contribs) 15:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Cusp years of Generation X and Baby Boomers - Generation Jones - Get off my lawn, it's better than yours! 2603:7000:B901:8500:F117:BC30:9BDE:FBC7 (talk) 15:29, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
The second sentence of the article says, "Generation Jones was first coined by the American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S., who were children during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation rather than during the 1950s." This sentence is self-contradictory, in that someone born in 1954 was not a "child" in 1974, when Watergate occurred--they turned 20 that year, and they were a child in the 1950s.
Also, the second paragraph says, "there was no compulsory military service and no defining political cause". This is false. Conscription in the US ended in 1973, but males aged between 18 and 25 were required to register with the Selective Service System, so someone born in 1954 would have turned 18 in 1972, and was certainly still subject to the draft. This is followed by the statement: "opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War was for the older boomers", but this is manifestly false. Anyone born in 1954 would have turned 21 in 1975. The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 were broken almost immediately, and fighting continued until the spring offensive and the subsequent fall of Saigon in 1975. There were certainly members of this cohort, if one accepts the arbitrary start date for it of 1954, who were protesting the Vietnam War in 1970. I was one of them.
As I say, the lede of this article is confused, and contradicts itself. Carlstak (talk) 02:10, 7 March 2024 (UTC)