2. Scott's piece argues that both patriarchy & adulthood are in a linked crisis, under siege from a rising feminist culture.
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3. That bald summary simplifies things slightly since Scott acknowledges long-running American flight from responsibility (Huck Finn, etc)
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@HeerJeet@aoscott For balance, see Neil Postman's "The Disappearance of Childhood". http://amzn.to/1BEl6Wt Wonder if Scott has read it... - End of conversation
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WOW!! A THIRTY-SEVEN-point tweet rejoinder from
@HeerJeet on@aoscott 's "The Death of Adulthood in American Culture" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/the-death-of-adulthood-in-american-culture.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Sanderrp It's been challenged (as has Philip Aries) but not definitively refuted.
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See
@aoscott's essay on the demise of male and female adulthood http://nyti.ms/1pbAyAJ and@HeerJeet's dissection of it@BlairGlaserThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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