Yeah! Adults should stop doing that childish stuff, like oolouring, watching cartoons, reading fantasy and sci-fi, eating sweets, playing video games and bordgames and roleplaying games, cosplaying, laughing at toilet humour, collecting stamps and postcards and action figures, make funny faces, eat junk food... :)
My favourite quote:
"To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
- C. S. Lewis
Could you illustrate how doodling, coloring, or any other distraction is more childish and less childish? Could you also explain why childishness should be shunned in this context?
I'm personally waiting for footie pajamas to be considered office attire. I give it ten more years.
either way, I'm saddened that you are downvoted. If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partners. Do we not want to acknowledge this is happening, or was it merely the "tone" we're supposedly downvoting once again?
> If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partners. Do we not want to acknowledge this is happening, or was it merely the "tone" we're supposedly downvoting once again?
One little nitpick, you forgot to say why this is "bad." You said it is happening, but considering your tone towards the OP (and the remarks about downvotes) I'm guessing you agree that this is a "bad thing" so, why exactly?
Also are you playing the whole "masculinity good," "femininity bad" card? Seems like a rather dated attitude.
Another part of that trend that I've noticed of late is people calling piss "pee" and shit "poo" or "poop". Just like you did when you were a 2-year-old and Mommy said you had "poo poo diapers" that needed changing.
"pee" and "poop" are like the base terms for those two things. With "piss" and "shit" being the crude terms, and "poo" or "wee" being the more childish terms. This is the most stupid conversation I've ever had on this website.
Oh, that goes back a long ways, and goes across cultures too. It's a human thing, not an "American" thing. Maybe you can find some culture somewhere in the world that unironically hangs signs that idiomatically translate to "The Shitters ->", but it'll be the exception rather than the rule.
I don't think anyone really associate the the "rest" in "restroom" with resting. May as well call it infantile to call it a "bathroom" when only children take baths.
Right, I resist calling it a bathroom in places where it won't actually have a bath. Guess I should start asking at restaurants where the water closet is?
I'm surprised at this, as in my experience, the overwhelming trend in north america is to avoid talking about bodily functions at all costs, nearly to the point of denying they happen.
The words they use after they break this nigh-impenetrable barrier are usually codified in the most non-offensive ways possible. Someone having a conversation about "shit", for instance, will have a far more uncomfortable audience in North America than someone passively mentioning the existence of "poo" to a group of people. Often, the very subject's focus in a conversation will make listeners question the mental health of the speaker (seriously).
TL;DR - The culture around bodily functions is way crazier than what we call them.
I've noticed this, and it is actually a pain in the butt (minor pun intended) because when you try to book a hotel room or want to look at a home to buy/rent online, they almost never ever include pictures of the "restroom." Even if the size/functionality is a legitimate feature that you're paying for.
Fortunately with travel sites like Tripadvisor often include photos from your average tourists who didn't get the memo about "never take a photo of the bathrooms ever!" and thus you get to see what you're in for with the accommodation. There's no alternative with home shopping, other than physically visiting the place.
Fun Fact: The sole reason North American women discuss menstruation for more than two sentences is because they're wanting to make the man/men sitting near them uncomfortable.
My favourite quote:
"To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C. S. Lewis