More on wimps

[geoffcapp]

Back in June, thanks to keith418, I posted a link to Hara Estroff Marano's article "A Nation of Wimps" in the Nov/Dec 2004 issue of Psychology Today.

A closely related yet more humourous meme has been making the rounds; rather than adding the two-millionth copy of the same text to the web (most bloggers are such sheep), I will simply link to gentlemanj who pointed

Comments

[b_v_borgia]

Oh lordy, don't get me started on this one. I swear, kids today don't have one single minute of their lives unscheduled or un-supervised. While I may have chosen not to have children, I still have to wonder if that is really healthy for society as a whole.

[geoffcapp]

Thankfully, "society as a whole" doesn't appear to do this - just middle-class Americans (the upper and lower classes both leaving their offspring equally unsupervised for different reasons and with different results).

"Why these kids today, I oughtta...." ;-P

[b_v_borgia]

I tend to think if the middle class does this, being in the middle so to speak, it will effect society as a whole.

How dare you disagree! ...I aught to boycott you! ;)

[geoffcapp]

You can't boycott me! I'm filtering you! Nyah nyah! Thbphthphbth! ;)

[jwmfleming]

Yes!!! This is awesome! With a nation of pussy kids, it'll make it so much easier for my potential children to terrorize the neighborhood. The next generation of Flemings will be the first generation of warrior-poet bullies!