There’s more to life than on your back, with your ankles behind your ears.

OldEnglish on December 15, 2012 at 7:51 PM

Nope, but you have to agree that is a nice start—or end, to a party.

PS, Australia sure is looking nice to someone that just wants to leave CA. Can I bring my guns or are they still banned?

“While women care about pocketbook issues, they don’t want to elect an extremist.”

Yet that is exactly what they did. The “cognitive dissonance” is strong with this one.

It’s a deliberate extension of her young teenage years, what I’ve heard called the “Barbie mentality” – outright dismissal of anything that doesn’t interest her as irrelevant.

Imagine a teenage daughter who absolutely refuses to take interest in anything boys, gossip, soap operas, and whatever “why no, I’m not a prostitute” clothing is currently ‘in fashion’ unless she is harangued into doing otherwise.

Now imagine a 20 or 30-something woman thinking and acting like that, and you’ll have a rough idea of what’s going on.

MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:01 PM

This is it in a nutshell. Most of these people have never been raised to respect other people’s beliefs or any rights that extend further than their own nose. If it doesn’t matter to them personally, then it doesn’t matter at all. They don’t get the concept of competing interests, or that others make care about something other than what you do. It doesn’t matter to them. Long term, strategic thinking is beyond them because there’s no immediate gratification.

I’ve never heard my friends lament their taxes.

Just wait a month or two.

Shump on December 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM

I wholeheartedly agree. It’s sad when I see my peers put off adulthood for too long. None of them are happy, though. They talk like the women in the article, that they aren’t looking for that family lifestyle, that they’d rather be doing what they’re doing, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy where they are. They’re all unhappy, but most figure it out sooner or later.

If you didn’t make any money until you were 26 years old, therein lies a large part of the problem. If you’ve spent the first 8 years of your adult life being supported by others, how surprising is it that you only think about yourself? I’d say at age 26 you should have been making money for at least 10 years.

Shump on December 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM

I didn’t make any real money until I was 23 because I couldn’t even get hired at fast-food joints, despite not even having a traffic ticket to my name, unlike a good many of my peers.

Currently I’m praying that I’ll be good enough as a seasonal worker to be kept past Christmas. That is how scarce jobs are.

LOL! Ok, glad you were!

MelonCollie on December 15, 2012 at 8:51 PM

Haha! Fact is, as much as I say it on here, I’d never even dropped a hint about wanting grandkids until about a month ago when she said she was thinking about marrying her boyfriend. Then I went totally overboard blabbing about all the places we, her poor grand-less parents had talked about taking her future children. It was days after that high when I realized she might just want a husband–not kids. Aaah well…

Most of us didn’t make any money until we were 26 year old and we want to enjoy ourselves,” she said.

If you didn’t make any money until you were 26 years old, therein lies a large part of the problem. If you’ve spent the first 8 years of your adult life being supported by others, how surprising is it that you only think about yourself? I’d say at age 26 you should have been making money for at least 10 years.

Also, this notion that if you have a spouse and kids, you can’t enjoy yourself or your life disgusts me. I hear it all the time from young, single people who are utterly self-absorbed. I am married and have four young children and I am enjoying my life more than I ever have. Because I’ve realized what enjoyment of life actually means.

At 26, I see so many of the girls I grew up with either with child or desperate to begin settling down. Our generation grew up in broken homes, well off mostly, but broken nonetheless, and by and large we hated it. My parents stuck together, but damn near all of my peers deeply resent their family life and everyone talks about doing things right – getting married, having kids, caring for them and raising them right, rather than the self absorbed parents we grew up with. Hell, to my mother’s great surprise even I got married, after sowing so many wild oats my parents gave up on the thought of grandchildren.

Expect the pendulum to swing back.

Does she mean Mitt Romney?

SAZMD on December 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM

Low info voter.