My Reaction

I agree with Kimmel that there is a distinct time in everyone's lives when you aren't a child or an adult. Currently, I and pretty much all of my friends are in this in between stage so I can relate to what Kimmel is talking about. I don't really consider myself an adult in any way because, despite the fact I have moved out of the house, my dad still pays for my schooling, food, car, housing, etc. I worked for a while in high school, but I only worked to have money for concerts and silly stuff, nothing to try to live on. I really don't think I'll consider myself an adult until I don't have to have my dad pay for everything in my life. I also greatly agree with his ideas about why adolescence is starting earlier and ending later. When I was younger everyone would tell me to act like an adult, or grow up, or stop acting so childish, so I was forced to act older. In college now I'm still forced to act like an adult in the way that I interact with my professors and other students in class, but I still feel like a child because I'm not allowed to go out with the majority of them due to my age and my dad is still paying for everything.

This article posted in Newsweek in 2008 gives another interesting take on Kimmel's Guyland (the entire book). The man writing the article is about to get married, too young according to his friends. He is ready for the "happy family man" life, and his friends, those still stuck in Guyland, don't see that this is even a possibility. His explanation of his situation gives another interesting take on Guyland.