Is technology neutering the male gender?

Women enjoy these things too...

 

My brother is the perfect example of this. Almost 30, owns two houses yet still lives at home and doesn't pay rent.

I'm not sure I agree with this. Are we at a stage where men have grown up with all this stuff? Texting ,tweeting, blogging, online chats are relatively new to the mainstream.

 

I agree with the premise, I just think it's an article thats 10 years too early.

 

I do know one thing: technology has created a seething mass of dolts that are stumped by concepts as simple as the screwdriver. Finding capable apprentices for basic shop work is friggin' maddening!

 

Times change though. If they've never used a screw driver, how would they know?

I mean, these days kids probably don't know how to wind down a window in an old car because they are used to the buttons.

Conversely when you were a kid, due to technology, there were some things you wouldn't have know what to do that your father would have thought 'kids these days don't know simple things'.

 

My god, I never thought of that.

 

Also why we have a bunch of fat@$$es now instead. Or at least a large part of it, why play a sport, run the risk of sucking when you can master the video game version of it.

 

We've seen the a steady lowering of morals through tv and conversely broadening of whats socially acceptable through tv. Some of it good and some of it bad.

What was tabooon TV in the 70's became acceptable after the 9pm watershed in the 80's.

In the 90's a 15 Rating saw material and vocabulary allowed that was previously Rated 18.

Slowly whats been deemed acceptable at a younger age has become more and more adult in its content.

We're not alllowed to discipline our kids with a firm hand any more.

Most families now need Mom and Dad working full time so the family dinner goes out of the window. Young boys are used to seeing dad work long hours.The family unit iswatered down by the lives that we lead.

When I was a kid from 5-6 onwards we played out all day. Soccer all year round, cricket in summer. We were out running around and mixing every hour of the day that we could.

Nowadays we're rightly afraid to let youngs kids like that play out unsupervised.

I think the article has some merits but a lot of things have contributed to how young people are today compared to the pre mobile phones and broadand days.

Unemployment doesn't help either. It's definitely easier to get away with being a slacker these days but society has changed in more ways than just technology.