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Twenty-Something Love
Nov. 5th, 2006 11:43 amSo, I was wandering around on the internet yesterday afternoon instead of working on my NSF grant. There's a girl at Columbia University, a junior, who writes a sex column for the Columbia daily newspaper. I found a link to her site through IvyGate, which is a blog dedicated to the happenings of the Ivies.
IvyGate
Miriam Datskovsky
Anyway, so one of the links on the side of Miriam's page leads to an interview she participated in with NPR, about love among 20-somethings. It was a fascinating discussion. One of the main points touched upon was that "men are the new women," meaning that, these days, women ask out men, and men are the coy ones who get to choose. It was also suggested that women are becoming more promiscuous while men are beginning to hold back, possibly because they (the men) want more romance and possibly because they think they can do better. Sixty percent of college students are female, which translates to a huge discrepancy once we graduate and move to urban areas. Men have all these choices now, and women don't. They also discussed how, because of this phenomenon, and maybe also partly because of TV, women feel like they have to sleep with a guy straight off, or someone else will. It's a matter of competition. Fascinating. And it's a horrible thing, but I definitely think it's true. If I look around, at myself and at UCSC and Yale, that's what I see. Men are holding back, and women are throwing themselves at them, desperate to hang on to one but largely unable to do so.
Anyway.
As long as we're posting links, I'm getting my sister a magnetic dachshund for Christmas.
What are you getting your mom for Christmas?
IvyGate
Miriam Datskovsky
Anyway, so one of the links on the side of Miriam's page leads to an interview she participated in with NPR, about love among 20-somethings. It was a fascinating discussion. One of the main points touched upon was that "men are the new women," meaning that, these days, women ask out men, and men are the coy ones who get to choose. It was also suggested that women are becoming more promiscuous while men are beginning to hold back, possibly because they (the men) want more romance and possibly because they think they can do better. Sixty percent of college students are female, which translates to a huge discrepancy once we graduate and move to urban areas. Men have all these choices now, and women don't. They also discussed how, because of this phenomenon, and maybe also partly because of TV, women feel like they have to sleep with a guy straight off, or someone else will. It's a matter of competition. Fascinating. And it's a horrible thing, but I definitely think it's true. If I look around, at myself and at UCSC and Yale, that's what I see. Men are holding back, and women are throwing themselves at them, desperate to hang on to one but largely unable to do so.
Anyway.
As long as we're posting links, I'm getting my sister a magnetic dachshund for Christmas.
What are you getting your mom for Christmas?
