Single City Guy

The big gender story this week, was Kay S. Hymowitz’s excerpt from her upcoming book “Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys“, on the Wall Street Journal. The title of the article was “Where Have The Good Men Gone?” Kay states the modern young man lives an extended childhood, pre-adulthood she dubs, due to the rise of the professional young women. The cities examples such as men’s college graduations rates in their 20′s and early 30′s as compared to women and the ages men and women are getting married are older than in the past. Her shining example of the differences between the young modern man and woman, is the movie Knocked Up. In the movie Seth Rogan’s character is more of a slacker, continuing to enjoy an extended adolescence, compared to Katherine Heigl’s character who’s on her way up in the business world.

Kay Hymowitz’s point, as titled by the book, is that men are lost. They don’t know what to do with their lives, because women are becoming more prominent forces professionally and socially. This point, like this article, is another bomb in the continued gender war between man and women. While there are some legitimate points made by Hymowitz’s, I strongly disagree that the rise of women are keeping men in a pre-childhood status. [Read The Rest Of This Entry]