I was scrolling Reddit the other day and found something interesting in the /r/GenX subreddit about male breakfast clubs. That got me thinking about the movie The Breakfast Club (1985). I know it’s a tad different, but nonetheless, what a perfect slice of GenX.

The Breakfast Club, for those of you who might not know, was a GenX-defining movie about a ragtag group of high school students, who, for disparate reasons, had Saturday detention.

Iconic for its depiction of the various personalities that defined a generation, not unlike Dazed and Confused (1993) did almost a decade later, The Breakfast Club stood as a middle finger in the face of authority and its “I don’t give two shits about what you think, even if I get into trouble” attitude. I feel that swagger is sorely missing from our discourse, but that’s a whole other post. The point is........

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