There's been a lot this hubbub recently over an
article (about a
book [about a
video]) on the deterioration of guys. For those of you unwilling or too hurried to actually read the article/watch the video -- and let's be honest: if you're on the internet, you definitely fall into one of those two categories -- I'll sum it up for you: online porn and video games are ruining dudes. Ta-da! Come on, that's stating the obvious. There's no way all that sitting in a darkened room playing with a joystick of one type or another can be good for you. The lack of vitamin D, the manual strain, the crying afterward...it's not a healthy environment for any involved. Nobody ever said that excessive use of these things would be a good thing, and anyone who suggests otherwise is probably blind from spending too much time at the keyboard. There's not much discussion in that area. Let's focus on something a little more subtle. For instance, let's talk about what CNN saved for the second-to-last paragraph: "guys are totally out of sync in romantic relationships". Yes, hello, CNN and the people who wrote that book (Dr Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan, for those wondering)? I'm a teenage guy and I'd like to refute this. Okay, not refute it, just defend against it. And my defense is Brad Pitt.
