[FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

[Nick Thompson]

Oh,  but here's the point: 

Is having sex "childing" or "adulting"?

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

I think this captures the irony in the youngsters' use of the word "adulting".  It's a role and only a role.  You sometimes *play* the role and you sometimes don't.  It's like clothing you put on and take off ... much like an avatar in a video game.

I think it's an authentic attempt to be just a tad more honest about who we are and our self-image, which is why I mentioned impostor syndrome.  And it goes hand-in-hand, I think, with LGBT rights and the fluidity of gender roles.  I was intrigued when some celebrity (Aubrey Plaza maybe?) came out as *queer*, not gay.  It seems to be an interesting stance wherein the person denies the (artificial) discretization of gender or sexual preference.

On 11/13/18 9:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I still wonder what it would be like to wake-up and feel like an 
> adult, or if there are people happy with the idea and feel like it happened at an appropriate age.   I think I would not like those people.

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