Hi Everyone,
Eli's "Girl Pants" thread had me thinking. In the thread, a joke was made about remebmering not wearing nylons (women's panty hose) on one's head, and the implication is because doing so would automatically brand the wearer as a criminal.
Then I was thinking about it and thought, "Wow, I wonder how many of the younger posters would even know what that joke was referring to."
"Back in the day," it was common knowledge that "bad guys" supposedly often wore nylons over their heads to help conceal their identity (not the most foolproof method, I know) when committing crimes like armed robbery. In fact, this seemed (to me at least, in my limited exposure) to be the most common "real" crime depicted in comic books and cartoons.
How many others here have watched multiple times as infamous superheros like Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman foiled countless robbers? But now days, robberies come in the form of phishing and data breaches rather than grown men wearing women's stockings over their heads, so how would young people be able to recognize that reference?
As you can tell from my avatar, I'm a huge fan of Soundwave from the 1980's (original G1) version of The Transformers cartoon. A few years ago, someone here wrote me and asked, "In your avatar, why does Optimus Prime have a microwave in his chest???" This made me laugh out loud, but then also put me to the task of not only having to explain who Soundwave was, but also the fact that he transformed into a CASSETTE PLAYER (which brought up a whole new set of explanations.)
One of the things I've been thinking about in my daily single life with God is that He often connects me with people from different generations than my own. Communication can sometimes be difficult because both myself and the other person find ourselves struggling to find enough common ground to build a foundation that leads to heavier topics like faith.
I don't watch TV anymore (though I'm a YouTube junkie,) and I rarely watch movies (but sometimes I'll binge on all the movies I wanted to see at one time in the past year,) but I do try to read and keep up with at least a few headlines of popular culture, just so that I will hopefully have more common knowledge with which to be able to talk to others.
For this thread, I am defining "Generation Gaps" as the times when people don't understand each other's historical or cultural references due to differences in age and times when they grew up. What are your thoughts about "Generation Gaps"?
* What generations do you find yourself talking to most? Older, younger, or the same as you? Which ones do you seem to "click" with most?
* Do you find it hard to talk to people of different generations than yourself? Why or why not? What would make it easier?
* If you'd feel comfortable doing so, please share some times in which you felt a "generation gap" with another person and how it was handled. Did you come to an understanding, or did both people walk away in opposite directions, each shaking his head at the other?
I often ask God to try to please help me talk to people with empathy and respect but without talking down to them. I seem to be in situations where people talk down to me quite often (usually because I'm a single gal without children,) and I'm hoping that "when I grow up," I won't turn around and do that to others around me. But, it's definitely a work that's still in progress.
What about for the rest of you?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences!
I'll bet some of the people who read this will never look at a pair of nylons the same way again.
(Fun generational fact: panty hose can be an accessory to armed robbery!)
Eli's "Girl Pants" thread had me thinking. In the thread, a joke was made about remebmering not wearing nylons (women's panty hose) on one's head, and the implication is because doing so would automatically brand the wearer as a criminal.
Then I was thinking about it and thought, "Wow, I wonder how many of the younger posters would even know what that joke was referring to."
"Back in the day," it was common knowledge that "bad guys" supposedly often wore nylons over their heads to help conceal their identity (not the most foolproof method, I know) when committing crimes like armed robbery. In fact, this seemed (to me at least, in my limited exposure) to be the most common "real" crime depicted in comic books and cartoons.
How many others here have watched multiple times as infamous superheros like Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman foiled countless robbers? But now days, robberies come in the form of phishing and data breaches rather than grown men wearing women's stockings over their heads, so how would young people be able to recognize that reference?
As you can tell from my avatar, I'm a huge fan of Soundwave from the 1980's (original G1) version of The Transformers cartoon. A few years ago, someone here wrote me and asked, "In your avatar, why does Optimus Prime have a microwave in his chest???" This made me laugh out loud, but then also put me to the task of not only having to explain who Soundwave was, but also the fact that he transformed into a CASSETTE PLAYER (which brought up a whole new set of explanations.)
One of the things I've been thinking about in my daily single life with God is that He often connects me with people from different generations than my own. Communication can sometimes be difficult because both myself and the other person find ourselves struggling to find enough common ground to build a foundation that leads to heavier topics like faith.
I don't watch TV anymore (though I'm a YouTube junkie,) and I rarely watch movies (but sometimes I'll binge on all the movies I wanted to see at one time in the past year,) but I do try to read and keep up with at least a few headlines of popular culture, just so that I will hopefully have more common knowledge with which to be able to talk to others.
For this thread, I am defining "Generation Gaps" as the times when people don't understand each other's historical or cultural references due to differences in age and times when they grew up. What are your thoughts about "Generation Gaps"?
* What generations do you find yourself talking to most? Older, younger, or the same as you? Which ones do you seem to "click" with most?
* Do you find it hard to talk to people of different generations than yourself? Why or why not? What would make it easier?
* If you'd feel comfortable doing so, please share some times in which you felt a "generation gap" with another person and how it was handled. Did you come to an understanding, or did both people walk away in opposite directions, each shaking his head at the other?
I often ask God to try to please help me talk to people with empathy and respect but without talking down to them. I seem to be in situations where people talk down to me quite often (usually because I'm a single gal without children,) and I'm hoping that "when I grow up," I won't turn around and do that to others around me. But, it's definitely a work that's still in progress.
What about for the rest of you?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences!
I'll bet some of the people who read this will never look at a pair of nylons the same way again.
(Fun generational fact: panty hose can be an accessory to armed robbery!)-
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