Are men really just overgrown kids?

Question

no offense guys, I don't mean it in a bad way.

Answer 1

yes have you ever seen their face when they get power tools or a four wheeler something like that. It's like christmas morning...

Answer 2

I would say some are but not all men are just overgrown kids.

Answer 3

Yes!! Sure they have their grown up adult serious side sometimes. My hubby is 31 and still plays video games, like crazy, but he also goes to work 6 days a week and takes care of us too. So I think he should be entitled to be a grown up kid when he's at home!!

Answer 4

Sure, that's the cool thing about being a dude. To give an example, toy trains and women's breasts are meant for kids but grown men usually end up playing with them.

Answer 5

Hopefully this snip from an article will give you some hope on the male species.

Based on the eponymous 2004 novel by Kyle Smith, "Love Monkey" offered the latest iteration of "lad-lit," a genre popularized by the likes of Nick Hornby, whose novels inevitably featured a confused, neurotic, discontented man-boy being dragged kicking and screaming into adulthood, usually by his girlfriend.

But where "lad lit" authors disguise the dumbing-down of adult masculinity with witty prose, advertising executives are less subtle. Commercials for cell phones, fast food, beer and deodorants offer up an infantilized version of masculinity that has become ubiquitous since the rise of "lad" culture in the '90s. These grown men act like
boys—and are richly rewarded for it. A recent cell phone ad, for example, features a guy who responds to being dumped by his girlfriend—because "you're never going to grow up"—by playing, on his cell phone, an '80s pop song that tells her to get lost. Of course, this immediately earns him the attention of a younger, prettier woman walking by. While these ads pretend to mirror a male fantasy—say, of walking down the wedding aisle armed with a six-pack of Bud Light—they in fact reflect a corporate executive's dream customer: a man-boy who is more likely to remain faithful to their product than to his wife.

This shift in the dominant image of manhood is most evident in the evolution of the so-called "Family Man." The benevolent patriarch of the '50s has been replaced by an adult teenager who spends his time sneaking off to hang out with the boys, eyeing the hot chick over his wife's shoulder, or buying cool new toys. Like a fourteen-year-old, this guy can't be trusted with the simplest of domestic tasks, be it cooking dinner for the kids or shopping for groceries.

These pop culture images are all the more striking because they directly contradict the experiences of men in the real world. Women may still bear the greater burden of domestic work, but American males today do more at home than their fathers, and are happy doing
it. According to the Families and Work Institute, the percentage of college-educated men who said they wanted to move into jobs with more responsibility fell from 68 percent to 52 percent between 1992 and 2002. A Radcliffe Public Policy Center report released in 2000 found that 70 percent of men between the ages of 21 to 39 were willing to sacrifice pay and lose promotions in exchange for a work schedule that allowed them to spend more time with their families.

Answer 6

yes, just a bunch of overly confident whinny overgrown kids!!!!

Answer 7

Nope,they are really just overgrown babies with diapers!

Answer 8

You betcha! Right now mine is pouting cause I wouldnt go to the store for him! Go figger!

Answer 9

Yes they are

Answer 10

IM A GIRL AND IM STILL AN OVERGROWN KID. ILL GET OLDER CUS THATS LIFE..... BUT GROW UP.........HAHA FCUK THAT.