Comments on: Boys and Women

By: Kasie

Kasie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:42:38 +0000

I love this subject. As a wife of a serial video gamer, I have to agree, some men need to grow up and drop the video games. It’s one thing to play them randomly or with your children a few times a month. It’s another thing to completely procrastinate or simply NOT DO the things you are supposed to because you can’t peel yourself off the TV/monitor due to feeling like you “don’t want to.” I don’t know how many times I’ve heard “after I’m done with this quest” when I’ve needed help with something around the house. And how many days a project has sat in our home, unfinished because hubby didn’t want to do it. Well, I don’t want to get up at 2am and feed the baby, or make dinner each night, or wash and iron his uniform. But I have to. I’m a big girl.

Women/girls growing up too fast, I remember when Barbie used to be the toy complained about. Now it’s Brats. My MIL also agrees with this subject and is set on not letting her daughter grow up too fast. Brats is off limits. The Disney Channel and Radio Disney are the only stations she can watch or listen to. I kind of laugh at the Disney stuff. I think Disney is even a little too mature nowadays. Look at how much make up Miley Cyrus wears. I saw her on a magazine cover yesterday and wanted to wash her face and make her parents have her hair dyed back to it’s original color. She’s getting older yes but she’s not an adult. She’s still too young for all the getup IMO. I really think the whole problem in this area lies in the media. We’re so brainwashed by TV and what we see in the stores that we are forgetting people don’t look like that IRL. Kids aren’t supposed to look sexy in outfits. It makes me want to run away and build my own secret town like … what is that movie by M Night Shyamalan? The Village.

I hope if I have a daughter I can instill some values in her. I don’t want to be too overbearing and pushy but where do you draw the line? My boy, no video games for him. I told hubby, if we ever EVER let him have video games, he is going to have some insane rules set like one hour a day and only on the weekends and only while supervised. Hubby already wanted to buy him a Wii. The kid is 2 months old!

K *rant end*

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:15:21 +0000

I totally agree with you on this one. I get those blank stares a lot around here too. I’ll be twenty five in May and I don’t fit the mold of this area. I’m NOT a military wife, I AM married (almost four years) and both of my kids have the same father. Oh yes and I do have a college degree. Its like I’m from outer space when people realize that.

BTW, Len. I tagged you to do something out of your realm of blogging interest.

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:27:01 +0000

Good observations. I’m still not convinced that not going outside, playing playstation and ordering pizza is wrong though. I recently watched a segment on sixty minutes about the Gen Y’ers (I hate these labels) and how they’re all slackers and useless because they put fun before work, they take naps in the middle of the day and generally look much like they did when they were children (both in appearance and action). The consensus on the show was that we’re screwed up. I don’t buy that.

I agree a codependent relation ship with your parents is wrong (ie. living in your parents basement past 21 or so), but at the same time why do I need to have the same values as my parents? Being outside is overated. Provided that I take care of my responsibilities, why am I less of a man because I’d rather play Halo than go fix a car?

I don’t think you were trying to make that point, but I wanted to argue it anyways.

As far as girls, I think you’re dead on. I don’t see the society getting any better though. So I guess we should grab and umbrella and wait for the hellfire and brimstone to come raining down.

Earl