I read the whole article - it will be ignored by the MSM of course.
I am not that far removed from the college scene. Hooking up was rampant at my very, very famous southern school.
In short here is a primary cause: the fear of being labeled 'anti-social'. If you are labeled that in college, it WILL hurt your future career, esp if you somehow managed to get into a fraternity or soroity.
Being 'social' means you never get upset about anything, and you NPR sing-song voice is perfectly pitched, regardless of the strain of the social situation.
What the vast number of kids are totally ignorant of is the New Testament, and specifically the attacks against the Pharisees within it. That is the core of the current fight. The 'rules' are there all right, such that later, when they are parents, their ability to exercise authority of any kind is minimized.
It is a kind of Weirmar Germany ... just a different set of rules.
Thank you, excellent article.
I have noticed this among college men. Twittery, chirpy--upward inflected at the end of a declarative sentence? Every statement a question? Statements turned into questions as a plea for approval and tolerance?
Ick. It's like swishing and wrist-flapping, but these are heteros of which we speak. speak?
I was proudly "anti-social" in college. My stubborness and refusal to go along with the flow (becoming an "other directed" man) has brought me nothing but success. The only thing good about college were my classes.
This author is certainly a vivid writer.
You went to Emory or Mercer, didn't you?
It was like he described in my growing up years. I am amazed at what goes on here at school, between young men and women, men and men, women and women. Nobody seems to care anymore. I AM GLAD I AM A PRUDE!!!