30-year-olds: 'drop the pad and grow up'

[VampDude]

I'm in my early 20's and I will never give up video games, I have a life but I'm actually known to take my video games (modified slimPS2) with me wherever I go due to the fact I could never be without playing video games (even when I'm in my 30's).

[goity]

What a me-too sket...

[gumgod]

This lady's just PMSing or something. I'm 25, I have a house, a paid off car, a girl that I've been with for 8 years. We don't have kids yet, but I have a steady job and I'm stating my own business and still find time to play video games. If kids are "growing up" at an older age, it's because they had to go to college. If you continue the pattern that they've been in by going to school and living in a dorm of course they are going to party and drink. More and more people are going to college now because a high school diploma just doesn't cut it to get a good job these days.

[Spotfist]

This Kay is sooo right I can't believe you are all complaining! We should all be sat at home doing nothing. being really bored, and have no lives!

Why should we have the choice of doing what we want to do when we can all do what Kay wants to do?!

Oh wait I just realised why... CUZ IT's LAME! hehe

People wana have fun, if her idea of fun is nitting at home\stroking her cat's then thats her thang! I personally enjoying going out with loads of friends, how does that make me a child?

[No_one_in_particular]

When in doubt: blame it on games. You think these men she's stereotyping would really give two ****s if gaming wasn't around ? Would they hell as like. It's society. Stupid article with an underlying sexist stance.

[VFerg]

Price of living is huge. Finding a job to support that is hard. Women are also responsible for the reasons why we dont "commit". Putting blame on one thing for a whole world is just retarted. When it comes down to it I work my ass off all week, what do I want to do more then hang out, play some games, and go to bars? Of course someday I will settle down but that still wont stop me from playing a game or two. Im only 24 and even though my parents were on there own by 19 the times they lived in were better for making ends meet. You got payed less but material things were A LOT cheaper to buy. Houses are more then 10 times the amount now then when they were back when my parents were just starting! Now how the hell am I supposed to grow up when society wont let you!

[joezueno]

WOW See this is the screwed up part about these so called journalists, and the research they DO NOT DO!

I'm married, I have two children, heck My wife and I both play games Im 26 she's 22. I have a pretty good job, and I take care of my family with no problems. Its rediculous the blame "commitment issues" on video games, man these days everything is being blamed on games. Here's a thought stop trying to blame things and look at your friggin selves, obviously thats the problem not something like a video game

This so called journalist is pretty stupid if you ask me

[knifemind]

Crazy. I had to register just to comment on this.

She's comparing two totally different eras. Why not think back even farther...say 100 years or more. Back in the day you had to breed to survive. You had to work every day just to survive to the next one (this is most true in the US, where our country was still being built). Having children was essential because although it was more mouths to feed, it still gave you family better odds of success. Some of this mindset may also come from religious context (the whole, populate the earth deal) and people often subconsciously exhibit this obsolete ideology without knowing it.
In the 60s, we were still riding the ripples of the industrial revolution. Industry had been well established by that point, but it takes time for cultures to catch up with progress. From that angle, you can see why the old 'survival' mindset still lingered in the 60s. Now, into the 2000s, we're already plunging right into the technological revolution, and I think that over the next 10 - 20 years, things are going to get VERY interesting. Again, it will probably take several generations for our culture to adapt to the changes that are coming.

Ms. Hymowitz needs to wake up and realize that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that a grown man in our culture make life decisions based on the life decisions that men made 40 years ago. Our culture is no longer one of survival, but of convenience and of choice. Why should every 30something man be out trying to raise a family? Men and women in modern society can live long, complete lives without ever having children. Despite what some say, your legacy is not a name, or a gene pool, but it defined by what you do with your life, and the lives you touch. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

In my opinion, there are two things modern men need to do...
1. Take care of yourself
2. Be a good neighbor

'Nuff Said