I agree with Hymowitz about the unprecedented change in our society of women starting to choose to start a family later in life. In America’s societies past women relied on the male head of house for financial decisions, and income, and “for women the central task usually involved the day-to-day rearing of the next generation” (493). These days one of the most drastic changes brought by pre-adulthood is the common acceptance of whether a person would like to have a family or not. Either sex is able to choose when they would like to start a marriage and procreate, or skip it altogether. At 19 years-old my mother was married and started thinking about children, something I took a very different approach during my 20s. While I am married, at 30
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She addresses the influence of education and “radical reversal of sexual hierarchy” as the components that influenced “this class based social phenomenon” (Hymowitz 492). But she doesn’t include the culture that created the generation of identity unsure, leaving her audience with an unfinished explanation of how millennials came to be. The previous generations instilled their beliefs and taught their children to look inward. The Baby Boomer generation, whom my aunt was part of, initiated the ideals to pass along to the Millennials. My aunt, a huge influence on my mother and my own development of life philosophy, encouraged higher education for women, focusing on work outside the home, and sustaining the passion you have for things like your career or ideas. My aunt’s generation started a movement that imparted the ideas of freedom and equality in America and stressed the importance of individual incentive. Dr. Twenge, a psychologist, found a massive rise in narcissistic traits in the newer generations, “she began to focus on studying generational changes in personality. The more research she did, she says, the more the themes of increasing self-focus and individualism emerged” (Quenqua). A society is always evolving to the needs of the time and has always …show more content…
Hymowitz praises the accomplishments a woman is likely to realize in the work place and her utter maturity. Hymowitz forewarns women that the typical pre-adult single man is only “watch[ing] movies with overgrown boy actors … [and] cheering their awesome car chases” (494). As a female, I like that type of entertainment, and enjoy watching cartoons or other programs marketed towards males that Hymowitz describes as immature. Throughout popular culture, the pre-adult woman is encouraged to equally treat men as testosterone toys to throw away, just as the article reads, men “treat women like estrogen toys” (Hymowitz 494). The young women, who will become the highly educated competitors to men, emulate the leading iconic figures and popular television shows. Kim Kardashian and the MTV network are perfect examples of the unsavory promotion of the way women should act and are capitalized by Kim Kardashian, The Real World, and Teen Mom. Is it fair to ostracize males as the only culprits guilty of these traits? As the female youth is targeted equally to like a way of life that could be looked at as unsavory, both sexes prove to perpetuate irresponsible behavior, exploitative tendencies, and the approval of “spoiled 24-year-olds trying to prolong the campus drinking and hook-up
She addresses the influence of education and “radical reversal of sexual hierarchy” as the components that influenced “this class based social phenomenon” (Hymowitz 492). But she doesn’t include the culture that created the generation of identity unsure, leaving her audience with an unfinished explanation of how millennials came to be. The previous generations instilled their beliefs and taught their children to look inward. The Baby Boomer generation, whom my aunt was part of, initiated the ideals to pass along to the Millennials. My aunt, a huge influence on my mother and my own development of life philosophy, encouraged higher education for women, focusing on work outside the home, and sustaining the passion you have for things like your career or ideas. My aunt’s generation started a movement that imparted the ideas of freedom and equality in America and stressed the importance of individual incentive. Dr. Twenge, a psychologist, found a massive rise in narcissistic traits in the newer generations, “she began to focus on studying generational changes in personality. The more research she did, she says, the more the themes of increasing self-focus and individualism emerged” (Quenqua). A society is always evolving to the needs of the time and has always …show more content…
Hymowitz praises the accomplishments a woman is likely to realize in the work place and her utter maturity. Hymowitz forewarns women that the typical pre-adult single man is only “watch[ing] movies with overgrown boy actors … [and] cheering their awesome car chases” (494). As a female, I like that type of entertainment, and enjoy watching cartoons or other programs marketed towards males that Hymowitz describes as immature. Throughout popular culture, the pre-adult woman is encouraged to equally treat men as testosterone toys to throw away, just as the article reads, men “treat women like estrogen toys” (Hymowitz 494). The young women, who will become the highly educated competitors to men, emulate the leading iconic figures and popular television shows. Kim Kardashian and the MTV network are perfect examples of the unsavory promotion of the way women should act and are capitalized by Kim Kardashian, The Real World, and Teen Mom. Is it fair to ostracize males as the only culprits guilty of these traits? As the female youth is targeted equally to like a way of life that could be looked at as unsavory, both sexes prove to perpetuate irresponsible behavior, exploitative tendencies, and the approval of “spoiled 24-year-olds trying to prolong the campus drinking and hook-up