>The generational cutoffs are some pretty soft science.
That's an understatement. The generational stuff is bullshit, and lazy thinking. While we can see trends over time, there is no rigorous way to differentiate someone born in 1976 vs. 1977, or 1993 and 1994.
What matters is what someone thinks and believes, not some arbitrary box that they are placed in. I'm 30 myself, so someone "officially" on the XY cusp, but its pointless.
I've met people younger than myself with a good head on their shoulders, who are skeptical and cynical about things like mass immigration, whether college really is the answer to living a good life, and if hate speech should be outlawed. How can they be "Gen Y" if they think this!? Then again, there are also plenty of old fools.
One of the media's successes has been to paint so-called millennials into a box. They have to defend themselves against all of these vapid assertions by older individuals, even when a lot of people don't buy into it. However, this allows people dismiss them as, "The Me, Me, Me Generation," and similar tripe.
That isn't to say that "Gen Y" doesn't have its fill of retards, but as I get older and more experienced, I've realized that everything is based on the individual, and should be judged as such.
What is very telling, is that when I refuse to accept the generation label, and confront the generational bullshit for what it is, it drives people into an apoplectic fit because they can't use it to dismiss you.
If someone brings it up, I would recommend dismissing it immediately. Don't allow that ammo to be used, but also have the integrity to understand that not all "baby boomers" were here to set-up people in our age range. People did, not a generation.