Even when Alan Pardew (and I take great pleasure in being the first to mention his name in this forum) called opposing soccer manager Manuel Pellegrini "a fucking old cunt" it wasn't perceived as a slur on his elderlyness. It was the cunt bit that got him in trouble - and, even then, not that much.
Middle age is 45 to 65, and Old age can perhaps be thought of as the following three ten year periods: Go, Go-slow, No-go - that would make elderly as 75+
(Rationale being retirement planning advisors encourage people to make the most of those first ten years (65 to 75) to do bucket-list things while (usually) they still can)
Tbf, streamers, kids etc constantly call people in their thirties boomer.
I feel like it's becoming a word describing people that have passed their prime (~35+ yo).
Yes, I'm fully aware that the word initially described people that were born during the baby boomer years (~1950) and that the people that are currently 35yo are millennials.
I am 35 and I was called a boomer by some youngling colleagues. I laughed like a true boomer full of sneer that those younglings are all a bunch of lazy losers that will not amount to anything as great as me all their life. I am pretty sure the generation before me thought the same and so on. It is great!
In most western countries your 60s is when you start drawing an old age pension. The post ww2 boom started when people got home so births from about 1946. Those people have been drawing US social security for over a decade.
Depends on the context and social circle, like lots of post-slang terms for a class. It can be endearing (or endearing and patronizing), a general insult, a common adjective…
Some words imply the person you're insulting is unsavory. Some words imply "I have power over you such that I can do anything I want and you can't stop me."
The degree to which this violence is allowed in a culture also conveys the power of the word in play.
Even when Alan Pardew (and I take great pleasure in being the first to mention his name in this forum) called opposing soccer manager Manuel Pellegrini "a fucking old cunt" it wasn't perceived as a slur on his elderlyness. It was the cunt bit that got him in trouble - and, even then, not that much.