• I hate being categorized
• I hate it even more when its derogatory
• I hate it the most when it is true…

This article hurt my free wheeling independent male ego to the core…
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_single_young_men.html

Not so long ago, the average mid-twentysomething had achieved most of adulthood’s milestones—high school degree, financial independence, marriage, and children. These days, he lingers—happily—in a new hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. Decades in unfolding, this limbo may not seem like news to many, but in fact it is to the early twenty-first century what adolescence was to the early twentieth: a momentous sociological development of profound economic and cultural import. Some call this new period “emerging adulthood,” others “extended adolescence”; David Brooks recently took a stab with the “Odyssey Years,” a “decade of wandering.”

I am working to reverse the affects though!?, read the previous post… that has to count for something!!! I am still working on my explanation and defense… it mostly pivots on the hope that one can lead a meaningful life while in pursuit of marriage and family without being in the midst of it… I am trying, you got to believe me!

Oh ya… I have never subscribed to Maxim either… nor do I intend to… but I still love technology…

I feel like this has been a continual accusation against my character ever since I was 18 years old by family, friends, girl friends, and on lookers. The article sets up the case for the default mode of men to be adolescents “child-men”, but it does offer a subtle alternative… the Mensch…

There are a few really good indictments in here…

Adults don’t emerge. They’re made.

Is it possible to be a single male in american culture and become a man of significance, meaning, and resolve?

Categories: Criticisms