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generation identity might be the next gender identity -- you might identify with a different generation in the strauss-howe cycle besides your own, I think I'm a pretty typical X and happy being one, but I do know X's who act like boomers, millennials, or Z's
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The top-end marketers know that the concept of generations is nearly obsolete, but keep marketing the idea to lower-end marketers. Interests & networks over chronology when the internet makes culture asynchronous.
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I think we could construct less general, less ridiculous generational profiles this way - ones that may retain some explanatory power.
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It might be appropriate to consider generation-identity intersectionally with other demographic factors: a black, gay GenXer probably has a more specific generational ID, with the AIDS epidemic looming larger in their historical experience, for example 1/