“OK Boomer,” though it certainly debuted late, is my favorite phrase of the departing decade* because it captures and reacts to both the disregard that those of older generations treat their own progeny and in a meta way the evolution of language and discourse over that time.

Its disdainful dismissiveness and grammatical indecorum is a perfect encapsulation of the antipathy that many Boomers in fact heartily deserve.

*I do not give a single fuck that there was no year 0, therefore the new decade doesn’t “really” start until 2021. We decide when decades start, not math formalism.