Miranda Sawyer

But her parents are very, very conventional.

And she makes a big deal about that.

She's born in 1967.

She's very, almost exactly the same age as me.

And she says, is it worse to have grown up in revolutionary times in the midst of a wildly vibrant city like New York, raised by people who were not really involved or engaged in the culture?

Does anyone really want to be a wallflower at the orgy?

So what she's saying is that as a Gen X person, your parents...

might have been in the 60s, but they're really unlikely to have been involved in the 60s because that's kind of for the privileged young.

So I think that there's a sense for her that...

that she's trying to be good because she's got conventional parents.

She's incredibly clever.

She's very driven.

And then also she's like, like, oh, they missed out on the kind of grooviness.

I'm not going to miss out on the grooviness.

And that is quite Gen X, I think.

And she does try and contextualize that.

Anyway, she's super, super clever.

She gets straight A's everything all the time.

Like she literally gets A minus one time and says to the teacher, you can't give me an A minus.

He goes, all right, OK.