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I sympathize with what you're saying and agree with some of it, but it's a bit idealistic. People's ideologies are molded by how they interact with the world. Ideas do not sprout from nowhere, so I completely disagree that "conservative generations" must be abandoned for younger ones. Unless you get to the roots of what's causing reactionary ideology, the younger generation will just be as conservative. Other than that, I firmly believe both the nuclear family and the gender binary will wither away and be sublated, but there's no swift abolition especially in a pre-revolutionary or mid-revolutionary situation. We're already seeing the beginning of withering away of these things due to the contradictions of capitalism, and they'll be completed as communism is built. Besides radical support for queer issues I'm not sure what the strategy here should be.
Yeah abandoning "reactionary generations" would require mass, repeated homicide of billions of people. It isn't because it's wrong or something that's the main issue, though, it just isn't practical to kill that many people, they literally outnumber you thousands to one.
You might disagree that it wouldn't require it, but it would, unless you can somehow completely isolate the same billions of people from the "newer generations" socially. Completely, not a single word would be able to pass from the lips of an older person to the ears of a younger one.