contagious joy.

Preach it brother! I’m not gonna settle for anything less than a MAN of God. Sorry guys.

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Earlier this week, I heard a discussion on the Dennis Prager Show between Prager and the author of a new book, “Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys”, Kay S. Hymowitz, contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. The topic, little boys stuck in 27 year-old bodies. Hymowitz summarizes her book, and their discussion by stating, “Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This “pre-adulthood” has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it’s time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn’t bring out the best in men.”

These “guys” are males who are not boys or men but something in between. They like to play video games, not with their children, but with each other. This is not some small population segment, found only in the basement of their mom, screaming back and forth for more pretzels and beer from a mom donning curlers and a robe, “they are a major demographic.”

And the reality is, the women their age are leaving them behind, “a gender gap neatly crystallized by the director Judd Apatow in his hit 2007 movie “Knocked Up.” The new phenomena of “Pre-adulthood can be compared to adolescence, an idea invented in the mid-20th century as American teenagers were herded away from the fields and the workplace and into that new institution, the high school.” This is the second wave, or really continuing second wave, of that movement. At first the goal was more education, but “guys” soon realized they can still get jobs, make money, have fun, date girls, all without the responsibility of having to grow up! Hymowitz shows this occurrence with numerous solid arguments in a brief article on the Wall Street Journal webpage, what can she do in an entire book!? She argues that this realization has brought many “guys” to see “wives and children are a drag on the footloose life required for the early career track and identity search.” While a similar phenomena has occurred with women their age, not nearly to the extent.

Society has perpetuated and enabled these “guys.” “In the 1990s, Maxim, the rude, lewd and hugely popular “lad” magazine arrived from England. Its philosophy and tone were so juvenile, so entirely undomesticated, that it made Playboy look like Camus.” Other things such as Comedy Central, the Spike channel, and more adult rated video games have contributed as well.

Hymowitz final statement pertains to why this has happened. “What explains this puerile shallowness? I see it as an expression of our cultural uncertainty about the social role of men.” How can anyone argue with that?!?! Even if one believes adolescence is a good invention, young adults should focus on education and careers before pursuing a family, and/or “young people don’t really KNOW themselves until they’re at least 26”, thus, they are not really adults until then, one has to admit that what these mentalities have created is a generation of “man-children.” Yes, “boys will be boys” until death - thats why God said “it is not good for man to be alone” - but are they to occasionally at like “boys”, or remain in a boyhood state forever!?!?!

Read the article and see if you’re not convinced. Unless, of course, you have to wait in line for the newest deal at Best Buy, just beat this final level of “hot stripper super hero goes on killing rampage” game, see the new episode of Robot Chicken (its a real show), or wait in line for The Hangover Part II.