tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30652949.post7583942133265640695..comments2023-04-15T09:08:04.382-03:00Comments on The Pedaling Prince: Men: Slime or Sublime?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05469580527099725317noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30652949.post-11764202261706753942008-08-26T22:08:00.000-03:002008-08-26T22:08:00.000-03:00Strange, I cannot capitalize my name in my comment...Strange, I cannot capitalize my name in my comment...<BR/><BR/>Interesting... "my" closest friends are mostly male. Mainly because I find alot of females my age and younger seem to be becoming like the male stereotype, perhaps in retaliation of something, as we discussed in email. I'm just responding here to voice my opinion publicly. I am John's younger sister.<BR/><BR/>I seem to be on the edge of the generation (of females, anyway) who still want(ed) to get married (I was born in 1979, for everyone else who reads this). The fallout of that is, the more divorces and breakups there are, that my generation and younger see of their parents and even themselves, the more jaded many of us become. I was at the end of my rope, as you know, until I got back together with my junior high school sweetheart back in September.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how negative or positive it is, but it appears the young people of today tend to have guy and girlfriends, and essentially have open relationships where they will be intimate at times, but not attach to anyone possibly for fear of heartbreak. <BR/><BR/>I see this alot, and it appears to work for them, but when they do accidentally get pregnant, they can and do raise the babies themselves (the mothers, more often than not), but it perpetuates the cycle because these kids don't even experience what a family of a mother and father is. <BR/><BR/>Somehow it was different for my generation and younger... expectations have changed over the years. Drastically over the last fifty or so. Again, not stereotyping, there are some young fathers I see, but I always feel in the back of my mind that it more than likely will not last, and it makes me sad. <BR/><BR/>Also, young people seem to be encouraged to stay young forever. 20s are the new teens. There's a difference, though, between having a youthful spirit and outlook, and being downright immature. Maybe that's part of it, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com