200,000 Years of Satire
I picked up this article while on vacation a few days ago and found it amusing. Until I realized they were serious.
How to Find Love in a World of Hookups
GLAMOUR (June 2010)
"It's taken womankind 200,000 years to finally be able to have no-strings, no-guilt sex. But what happens when you start wanting more? We've cracked the code to figure out how you can have your fun — and your happy ending, too."
Allow me a few questions for the author and believers of such an article:
How to Find Love in a World of Hookups
GLAMOUR (June 2010)
"It's taken womankind 200,000 years to finally be able to have no-strings, no-guilt sex. But what happens when you start wanting more? We've cracked the code to figure out how you can have your fun — and your happy ending, too."
Allow me a few questions for the author and believers of such an article:
- Do you think, perchance, that the previous 200,000 of with-strings with-guilt premarital sex might have held, I don't know, maybe one or two clues as to why it's so difficult to have your cake (hooking up) and eat it too (monogamous lifelong marriage)?
- Are we admitting that young women, ahem, actually might want more than perpetually hooking up? How does that fit with the oh-so-empowered I-don't-need-men-but-I'm-going-to-act-just-like-them superwomen of the late 20th century?
- Does this article match anyone's real life experience? Granted, the author quotes real life 20-somethings (most of whom seem kinda confused) but she also helpfully showcases Samantha Jones as an example of relational clarity. Not sure what to do with that.
posted by Amy M at 2:38 PM
1 Comments:
Glad to see that your reading material has improved now that you're a grad student. You ask some interesting questions. So the point of the article was... to point out that we need to communicate more but not change any of the behaviors that led to the ambiguous nature of today's relationships? The phenomena of "fakedating" has entered many christian circles where no one needs to commit or put feelings on the line. I was watching "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Saga" and found it interesting that Gil and Morgan asked Anne to marry them with out even kissing her first... can you imagine? Some would say that this is old fashioned but I find it lovely. Love based on more than physical chemistry takes work, but it seems to me that this makes the deeper foundation necessary for going the distance. I'll take single and old fashioned over liberated and emotionally entangled any day.
Post a Comment
<< Home