October 14, 2005
"But surely all these man-boys are making free choices based upon what is right for them. Who is anyone to complain?"
Peter Burnet offers up a companion piece to that little discussion we had yesterday.
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In my comments to the last thread, I sympathized with women who stayed single into their mid-to-late 30s and want to have a child.
However, there are two issues here -- the female autonomy issue, and the 'man-boy' issue. I don't necessarily think that men should grow up. I support female autonomy because I'm confident enough with my masculinity to not feel threatened. We're not ever going to become irrelevant.
I think that for every man who asks to frat-guy-ish, there is a woman who is self-indulgently 'girly.' Too often, men are made to feel guilty about being guys. If it wasn't for women, a lot of guys I know would never shave, never eat sitting down at a table, and go entire days without putting on pants. How would women act, if there weren't men around?
Allicent: You married a horse??
Do you live in Massachusetts?
Sorry. Punchy.
One thing that caught my eye...
"But faced with a generation of emotionally immature men who seem to view marriage as the last thing they’ll do before they die, we have little option but to wait, busy ourselves with making the most of our careers and hope that Mr Non-Phobic Right eventually makes himself known to us before our ovaries pack up completely."
It seems that *both* sexes have determined that the other has complete control over their romantic and sexual destiny.
Both are acting (in general, if not specifically) as Peter Pans, and all in the quest for autonomy.
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