"Once upon a time, video games were for little boys and girls—well, mostly little boys—who loved their Nintendos so much, the lament went, that they no longer played ball outside. Those boys have grown up to become child-man gamers, turning a niche industry into a $12 billion powerhouse."
Fascinating article on the problem with the child-men who are not "very promising husbands and fathers [because] they suffer from a proverbial “fear of commitment,” another way of saying that they can’t stand to think of themselves as permanently attached to one woman."
Read the whole article here.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
The child-men phenomenon.
Tags: child-men Peter Pan syndrome
Posted by Barbara Dillon Hillas at 5:23 AM
Labels: Culture, Western Civilization
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