Guyland Keynote with Michael Kimmel at Vanderbilt Student Life Center
Failure to Launch
by Tracy Moore
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“What used to be regressive weekends are now whole years in the lives of some guys,” author and sociologist Michael Kimmel told Newsweek recently in an interview about his new book Guyland, a timely collection of some 400 interviews with “men” aged 16-26 about a troubling new development among them: Dudes — specifically white, middle-class dudes — don't wanna grow up. So they don't. Like, at all. Instead, they're bro-ing down and bingeing it up with their buds in some sad-sack version of a bad frat-house sitcom. Think HBO's Entourage with all the beer, weed and video games, but completely bankrupt of the good looks, wealth, beautiful women, wit, actual talent, lucrative creative careers or a glimmer of hope in the real world. Of course, to any woman who's dated a man in his 20s in recent years, this is a no-shit study that sums up most dudes you know: They chest-pound charmingly over brews and grill fires about their indisputable manhood, and yet, inevitably, their parents still pay their cell-phone bills. But, hey, that's just the cheap seats talking: Go hear Kimmel drop the knowledge in person.
Mon., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., 2010
Mon., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., 2010
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