bingo. what exactly characterizes "psychological maturity"? the article seems to imply that it means not overreacting, and being able to prioritize. but it seems to me that both of those things would also be necessary characteristics of the kind of flexibility it associates with "immaturity." the whole thing seems deeply suspect.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 25 June 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
i think society used to view a productive (and mature) adult as someone who worked and got married and had kids and took an interest in their community (volunteerism, boosterism, local politics) and who looked after their family. and now i think people just wanna know how much money you make. hahaha, okay, maybe not, but maybe a little. nobody CARES if you are married and all the rest of it anymore because nobody knows if you are gonna even stick around long enough for them to care. or even know who you are.
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 June 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 26 June 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 26 June 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
and a lot of this has come about because of the women's movement/feminism/the pill/etc and those are all great things. i think freedom and the ability to move around without being harshly judged by society is a good thing. but there are pros and cons to everything. and one con of the wandering dabbler who goes wherever and works wherever is a lack of stability that can be a detriment to actual towns and cities. if you don't have a stake in the place you live and when you get bored you are gone...well, you get the idea. i am sort of a supporter of hyper-localism, but most people find it really boring.
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link
i used to think i would just hide out in the city alone in my room with my records and books forever until the smell made the neighbors call the police. that was my vision! and it was a very economical ecologically-sound vision. i didn't take up that much space. didn't drive a car. only fed myself. but believe it or not, there is actually a point to home and hearth and all that nonsense. especially the way things are going these days. rallying the troops and sticking in one spot (with suitable fall-out supplies) is looking like the thing to do.
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
-- scott seward (skotro...), June 26th, 2006.
*coughs, whistles idly*
― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Monday, 26 June 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 26 June 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 26 June 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I direct an armpit fart in the general direction of David Brooks.
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― lf (lfam), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I also get frustrated with the defition of family being so narrow.
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
SRC OTM (bwahahaha that nearly spells something).
Additionally, I'm always interested when mediocre academics at middle-weight British universities weigh in about ANYTHING to do with life skills. It would be more newsworthy if they discovered they HAD some. As to the kids thing - I probably can't have them and therefore have to leave my mark on the world in some other way. As to living like a student until your 30s, I've no problem with individuals who live this way - often the choice is not solely made by them, so to be told you're not a grownup on this basis is APPALLING.
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I hate to use the term but so fucking on the money.
I dunno. I agree with Sara: this seems as though the old days were better. But were they? I think it's great I waited till I was *older* to have a kid. I cldnt like my parents: they were 19 and 21 ffs!
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 26 June 2006 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Monday, 26 June 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 June 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
ha.
But seriously (because this was a 'serious study' after all), the thing that bothers me most about this study is that it relies too heavily on the 'old ways is better,' pro-retrogressive view of things. Additionally, how old is this guy? Because if he's a baby boomer type, then isn't a lot of this neotenous dawdling a result of his generation's example?
― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I like to think that makes me mature, doesn't it?
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.rhitard.com/daily/scotrun.gif
― aimee semple mcmansion (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link
(suzy and aimee - LOL on my initials plus OTM.)
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm watching this tv appearance by a guy representing segs4vets and they keep saying "segs for vets" over and over, and there is really not much of a difference between segs and sex. sometimes the words come out a bit differently and the 'g' is a little harder in segs, but generally they sound about the same. how did no one at the organization consider this
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 April 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
The oxygen machines used in the hospital I work at are all named after Disney characters. Like dopey. Strikes me as a little immature as well
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
I was leading training w/ someone (a fairly conservative, polite, professional Christian lady) and since we were in other states and using WebEx, you have to "pass the ball" icon to let them present/share their screen.
so at one point it was getting to be her turn and she msgs me "Wanna ball me?", and 12 year old Neanderthal had to be subdued by office Neanderthal.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 April 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
wait there's an oxygen machine called "Sleepy"?!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 April 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link