Most of my single girlfriends are reaching a point in their lives where they want to find "the one". With the dreaded 3-0 on the horizon, my girlfriends are ready for the men their age to hurry up and grow up. Well, ladies, according to the Wall Street Journal, it's all your fault:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704409004576146321725889448.html
According to Kay Hemowitz, author of "Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys", our gender's battle to be considered equal has reached such heights that it is starting to backfire on us. We are educated, driven, intelligent and self sufficient. We are putting off marriage and kids to further our careers, and are even starting to make more money than our male counterparts. Good for us, right? The only problem is, we've just given men an extra decade of boyhood. No longer do they feel pressure to secure careers directly after college in order to provide for a wife and family, because we're doing that, and we don't want to become wives and mothers until we're in our 30's anyway. So what do they do from 20-30? Travel, casually date younger women, drink, play video games, and work under 30 hours a week at dead end jobs. What are we doing during that time? Working as hard as we can to achieve all our hopes and dreams so that we won't resent our husbands and children when we decide we want them, all before we're too old have them. Then, when we're ready for the men, we turn around and expect them to be right where we are, but they're still on the couch!
Posted by Mrs Sweatpants
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