Monday, February 21, 2011

The male of the species

The story in the WSJ is headlined “Where Have the Good Men Gone?” & claims that “[t]oday, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance.”

The writer refers to this as “pre-adulthood”, with the guys characterized as “frat boys, maladroit geeks or grubby slackers”.

I don’t find this particularly odd. What puzzles me is limiting the description to the immediate post-teen years. Seriously—at what point do guys grow out of it?

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