MontanaHawk05
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McGruff":1qhqdylb said:If that is true, and increasingly it is true, then its a problem in society that needs to be corrected, not just acknowledged and certainly not condoned or excused.
Once upon a time boys became men in their mid teens. I graduated in 1990, and it was pretty much an expectation that at 18 I was to behave like an adult. Now I see young men sleeping in till noon and playing Xbox till 4pm and doing nothing with their time and everyone says "oh, they're young, they'll grow up."
All the while young women are looking for men and finding a perpetual culture of boyhood. A woman shouldn't have to teach her husband how to be a man. That's our job, and we're doing a pretty poor job of it.
I love this, and I fully agree. This embarrassing passivity has crept into young men. Previous generations had young men holding their families up, getting jobs at age 13, working the farm, pursuing every opportunity they could. The moment we get a couple generations of unthreatened prosperity, what happens to that sense of momentum in young men? Out the window.
To be fair, a lot of football players do grow up in hard circumstances and work their way into the NFL with sheer force of will. Those guys usually end up being the guys I respect on the field.