Are You a "Man/Woman Child?"

[Kenori]

...And in a recent post on HJU, Mr. Underachiever says, "**** you, Kay Hymowitz."

*Lifts up frosty cup of Juicy Juice* Here here!

 

[Faded.Memories]

I'm 23 in 9 days and I don't feel like an adult, fully. There are so many things I don't know about life that I think an adult SHOULD know. I'm in college, year 1 out of 5, and I'm going to be in soooo much debt.

And my boyfriend is 32, and still acts 12, so I'd say he's not an adult either. :laugh:

 

[DigDoug]

I'll act however I feel like, I don't need anybody telling me how to live my life. I like playing video games, I like watching cartoons, I like reading comic books, I like pulling senseless pranks on people, and I like buying toys. I was born a kid, and I'll die a kid.

Besides, grown-ups are icky

 

[Bolt]

Yeah a lot of people my age live on their own, hold down several jobs and are engaged, married, or with child, and I still draw dirty pictures and post them on the bulletin boards on campus.

 

[Faded.Memories]

Yeah a lot of people my age live on their own, hold down several jobs and are engaged, married, or with child, and I still draw dirty pictures and post them on the bulletin boards on campus.

You know, instead of drawing them you could just post those pictures of your mom you have under your pillow. :169:

 

[Bolt]

What is your fascination with my poor elderly mother?

 

[Faded.Memories]

She's hawt, and I'd like to boink her.

 

[Bolt]

You make my soul weep.

 

[x1xBladex1x]

In a recent op-ed, Kay Hymowitz argues that it's time for 20- and 30-year-old guys to put down the Xbox controller and grow up.

It wasn't long ago, Hymowitz says, that the average man in his mid-20s had achieved many of life's major milestones — he had a job, a marriage, perhaps even kids and a house.

Personally I wouldn't want kids anywhere in my twenties until about 28. So yeah I don't think that's a big accomplishment to have while in your 20s. Also, videogames doesn't keep you from having a job. There are plenty people here that can juggle jobs & games & still win. I have a 26 year old cousin that has a job, wife, soon to be kid(his wife is pregnant), house, car & everything & yet he still plays videogames A lot & he's not even fat or lazy. So yeah....um I think this Hymowitz was just deprived of many entertaining things while growing up.

Today's mid-20something male "lingers happily," Hymowitz writes, "in a new hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance."

Social scientists are struggling to define this new phase of life — "emerging adulthood" and "delayed adolescence" are two identifiers. Hymowitz has selected the term "child-man."

"Adolescence appears to be the young man's default state," Hymowitz writes, and the behavior is encouraged and reinforced by pop culture — television and the gaming industry in particular.

um....okay sure thing.

 

[Solid Snake]

This Hymowitz dude is just jealous of people like us who play videogames and watch toku.