The environment that most Boomers grew up in was a different environment that the upbringing for Generation X.
My parents were born in the early 1950s. Their formative years would have been the 1950s - 1960s.
The majority of Gen X'ers were the children born in the 2nd half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. Late 1970s and 1980 births are classified as Gen X. There is that Xennial phrase for late 1970s/early 1980s births. Technically, that label would be applicable for me. I have never bought the Xennial label for myself as I have felt my experiences have been more of a true Gen Y/Millennial experience.
Boomers were raised with more stable family units, especially the first 2/3rds of that generation. Late Boomers (1959-1964 births) had a somewhat different experience as no fault divorce entered most USA states by the 1970s. Divorces skyrocketed in the 1970s and some late Boomers might have felt that during childhood. However, most of the earliest wave of divorcees had Generation X children. This is why Generation X children were called latchkey children.
The 1970s-1980s were a transitional era in the sexual marketplace. The Sexual Revolution that started in the 1960s was starting to become solidified during the 1970s-1980s era. Due to its transitional nature, the 1970s-1980s had some elements leftover from a past time but started us down the path where we've gotten today.
The latchkey kid environment that Generation X children faced affected their worldview. I don't think that transitional era during their formative years helped them either.
It was uncommon in Generation X for male incels to exist. The most well known Generation X incel/borderline incel was Neil Strauss. Strauss was born in 1969. He got a bachelor's degree from an Ivy League school and had a decent journalism job. These achievements in the 1990s were not getting Strauss laid. Strauss wasn't getting laid until he became a seduction student of fellow Gen X'er Mystery and other notable PUAs. Neil Strauss pre-Mystery and other PUAs was mostly incel due to his 5'6" height and premature balding.
By the time that Generation Y/Millennial male were reaching their teens and early 20s, the incidence of incels/borderline incels were becoming more common.
I also want to add, which bears repeating, this sort of unregulated market has it so that females are getting experience way earlier than the average young male. Feral women do not like womanless men. This creates a catch-22. I'm unsure if I would even advise a high school guy to screw considering he has no way to adequately provide for a family, but abstaining leads to unattractiveness. And if a man reaches his early 20's womanless his whole life so far, he might be screwed, blued, and tattooed.
Inceldom is a vicious circle. Social ostracism or alienation can lead to inceldom. Inceldom causes further social ostracism or alienation. A friend from my past once said, "the dumbest feeling is being a womanless man around other men with women". I remember that feeling all too well. Being some lone guy at a wedding, beach, party, or out and about where young people were (at a mall, say) was f-cking awful.
The above sentiment is why I am not against taking women from their boyfriends (I do not advise being involved with married women for serious reasons and that's a whole other story) if marriage is not on the table for them. I mean, in the above post, I explained a situation in which damn near every young female had a boyfriend. That means in order for a guy to get a girlfriend, he'd have to take one. I remember working at a part-time job at a clothing store while in college, and at the end of one night shift, several cars were lined up outside of the store in which there were boyfriends for damn near all my female co-workers. I doubt any married those guys.
