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Where have all the un-fat women gone?
Where have all the un-fat women gone?
Stop looking for women at McDonalds!
Good article.
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For a very long time, Social Sciences have known that the question 'who am I' is materially answered in America with reference to 'what am I'. In other word, our roles define us.
Increasingly, as we expect less and less of our young men in terms of role accomplishment, their iden ies will be 'not much' or 'just a kid'. The fact that they are happy with that is what is disturbing, apparently to young women and some of the rest of us.
The more complex and sophisticated a mammal and his society is, the longer are the childhood and parental dependency.
For human mammals, I think we've reached to point of no return on parental dependency.
Watch a college game crowd of college students, or better yet, just point camera at them and they started screaming their heads off and Doing That Hand Jive.
Most ads of a couple show the woman being the sensible, responsible one and the man being a childish, ignorant jerk.
Then again, Girls Go Wild and instant soft porn if they hear "Show us your s"
Look at the kind of "men" depicted in beer ads. ing stupid jerkoff assholes.
I'm rioght hur bebe...
What the ? Either this is the same article I read on slate or while back, but even if it is not, this is the 4th or 5th "guys stopped growing up and aren't good men anymore" article I've read in the last month.
They make some good points, but you can't help but laugh while reading that the articles REEK of butthurt women who made stupid choices with their love life.
NEWS ALERT: It ain't in guys burning the holes in the checking account to buy their beer, charcoal, grillin meats, and football jerseys. For every guy who acts all "pre-adult" there is just as many stupid es that are shopping their checkbook away on stupid they will wear once, just to one-up their friends.
At the same time, young men were tuning in to cable channels like Comedy Central, the Cartoon Network and e, whose shows reflected the adolescent male preferences of its targeted male audiences. They watched movies with overgrown boy actors like Steve Carell, Luke and Owen Wilson, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Will Farrell and Seth Rogen, cheering their awesome car crashes, fart jokes, breast and crotch shots, beer pong compe ions and other frat-boy pranks. Americans had always struck foreigners as youthful, even childlike, in their energy and optimism. But this was too much.
This one really pissed me off. What the you stupid erudite-wannabe ? So guys are watching HGTV? Immature guys are watching Soap channel?
Oh my bad, I didn't realize that women were watching movies that were less idiocracy, more mature, and are making them more responsible, mature adults. GMAFB Here I thought Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, and Snookie were BAD role models on tv.
This needs to get laid, end. of. story.
Can't stand neo-sexist crap that spews from these stupid s mouths. So one sided, a guy would get his balls blown off for writing something like this.
Doubtful.
Unless some real man out there has a David Brenner fetish.
I don't know that the article is really that far off. I've watched most my friends kids from upper-middle class achieving parents just drift into life with no goals or ambitions...living at home, menial jobs, and their biggest passion is playing video games. For the most part, the girls ARE more responsible than the guys.
The article brings up good points but in an breathtankingly insular way. It's as biased as a Krauthammer article on obama.
Check out this other article on slate....
Sex Is Cheap
Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even when they're failing in life.
In general, young women are out achieving young men. Just ask any college admisisons counselor. There was a time not so long ago when preferential treatment was given to help women get into college, and now it happens for men. There are schools that admit to accepting lower quality male candidates to try to even come close to having some sort of balance in their enrollment. As it is, many universities are now almost 2 to 1 girls.
It also reminds me of a show I saw where a man asked women what is wrong with men. He said that the well-put-together women complained that men simply don't act like men.
If you were put off by the article, prehaps it hits too close to home.
"You know how I know you're gay?"
It's just an itch I had to scratch cuz they are just written so damn smug. Angers me to think people get paid to write that crap. If it was in a Marie Claire or somethin, but we're talkin WSJ and ?
ploto, that's not the point. There are plenty of women who get their degrees, get their bank, but are still immature. Look out that window.
Cultural norms have been inverted for males and females. Or, young men have become the self-absorbed infantile assholes old-school feminists made all men out to be, while young women are free to take over the world to create the vulva utopia.
Women wanted to be free to pursue a career and free of the expectations of marriage and motherhood, as well as to not be economically dependent on males and to also enjoy sex without consequences.
Young men now live it up and women still find something to complain about.
We live in a world that is every thirteen year-old's fantasy and call it progress.
Women didn't want to turn out to be like their mothers and are shocked to find that men are getting away with not being like their fathers.
For the last couple of decades, the expectation for educational and career success for females has increased while for males the focus has been on deemphasizing core male traits. In addition, job growth has been in white collar professions open to both while the blue collar opportunities which afford a middle class lifestyle have dwindled.
Why should they bust their asses in college, take on a ton of school loan debt, jump on the hamster wheel for a couple three decades and lose their job to outsourcing just when their kids are in school and they are a decade and a half from SSN, and can't even hit their 401k without a penalty for close to 10 years? Maybe they're the smart ones. There will always be menial service jobs that won't go away, and WoW likely will run online forever.
Aim low.
The destruction of the family by state and corporation is complete. It is easier to command loyalty from a population of light rooted individuals without the economic support of a spouse and inconvenient emotional ties. Parents are a relic of the past, children are a mistake or a fashion statement. The individual lives for the glory of the state and her employer. Progress.
Exactly.
That's why this is so annoying to me that it's actually written in reputable publications.
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