Boys Will Be Boys: Millenial Edition
Here is an interesting (but long) article on a topic we have touched on before, the gap between modern adolescence and adulthood. This article focuses specifically on males in their late twenties and their frequently childish behavior.
Laura and I had remarkably similar conversation after watching Knocked Up (two thumbs down). My favorite part of the article describes the movie:
It is also a fairy tale for guys. You wouldn’t know how to become an adult even if you wanted to? Maybe a beautiful princess will come along and show you.
Ha! It looks as though the tables have turned, for better or worse.
The article was long indeed. My problem with the article is that the author treats products like Knocked Up and About a Boy as if they were documentaries. They’re not. They are fictional works. They don’t prove that slacker boys are taking over the world consciousness. Seth Rogen isn’t actually a shiftless ne’er-do-well like the character he is portraying. He’s actually a successful actor, writer and producer.
Plus, young white men do not equal all young men. The author needs to realize that just because magazines like Maxim are written for, by, and about young white men, that doesn’t mean black, brown, and other colors of men think and act in exactly the same way. She needs to do some actual research on actual people, because there are also young white men who are truly ambitious and/or family oriented. Just because you see something on a screen or in a magazine does not make it real or accurately representative.