About GenExChristian

Indoctrinated from a young age, I grew up in a time when the seeds of the culture wars were first taking root in the fertile ground of a GenX upbringing. It was the beginning of a new era, where Reaganomics had taken the U.S. by storm, and the Cold War was on its slow decline.

We are the generation who gladly drank from a water hose and never thought anything of it. We stayed outside playing with friends until the street lights came on; that was our cue to go home. We lived in houses with brown paneling, floral print furniture, and shag carpet.

G.I. Joe. Transformers. Rainbow Brite. Strawberry Shortcake. Smurfs. Voltron. He-Man and She-Ra. Thundercats.

Hair bands. Pop. Metal. Rap. Aquanet. Fingerless gloves. French-cuffed jeans.

Lawn darts. Gak. Super Soakers. Tamagotchi. Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. Furby.

Backmasking. Christian rock. Satanic Panic. Purity culture. AIDS. Homophobia.

We are  Gen X. I am  Gen Ex-Christian (but you can call me Gene).