http://www.phillymag.com/restaurants/ar ... _men/page1
They don't have jobs. They're dropping out of college. They play video games all day and watch porn all night. Even their sperm counts are low. Why won't guys grow up?
Game are mentioned several times throughout, but here's a snippet:
“The world tells us that white American men are extremely powerful,” says Harper. “Statistics show they are disproportionately advantaged in all sorts of ways. But individual white men don’t feel privileged or advantaged. People pay more attention to women, to minorities, and white men feel, ‘Nobody is paying attention to me.’”
That’s where video games come in. Like porn, they provide a sense of mastery. Research shows males prefer games in which they feel “emotions that sustain dominant masculine identity”—in which they drive fast, blow things up, kill things, and sometimes batter women. But it’s not the content that’s the biggest problem; it’s the time commitment. Half of all college students say video games keep them from studying “some” or “a lot.” A few years back, a disgruntled co-ed told the New York Times she’d sworn off gamers for good because “they’re choosing to do something that wastes their time and sucks the life out of them.”
I think this is an interesting counterpart to mjmjr25's thread about gaming as a life long hobby, and thought I'd see what people here - especially those it is referencing - make of the points raised about gaming (or anything else, for that matter) in this essay...
Oh, and please read the article before chiming in - that's just good form if you want to enter into genuine discussion.