The Youth Is Starting To Change...

The following ladies (save Melissa, Sheryl, LeAnn, but add Nicole Scherzinger)

performed together Friday night for the Stand Up To Cancer television special...

Natasha Bedingfield, Leona Lewis and Carrie Underwood
stood out, and Miley Cyrus made a fool of herself:

I love that they just put them all in t-shirts and they still look beautiful. I mean...
Women don't need to get dolled up all the time, do they?

My mom sent me the Current TV clip below, and wrote only "hmmmm" in the body of email. WATCH IT: a cute girl performs a social experiment, testing what she can get for free from men- first dressing plainly, and then dressing more sexxed-up. What happens doesn't surprise me, but it does make me shake my head...

Men respond. And if you want to get an even closer look at the minds of young men, Newsweek had an article on what some might call Peter Pan Syndrome; the refusal and inability to transition from adolescence to adulthood:

"Once the preserve of whacked-out teens and college slackers, this testosterone-filled landscape is the new normal for American males until what used to be considered creeping middle age, according to the sociologist Michael Kimmel. In his new book, "Guyland," the State University of New York at Stony Brook professor notes that the traditional markers of manhood—leaving home, getting an education, finding a partner, starting work and becoming a father—have moved downfield as the passage from adolescence to adulthood has evolved from "a transitional moment to a whole new stage of life." In 1960, almost 70 percent of men had reached these milestones by the age of 30. Today, less than a third of males that age can say the same."

"Beyond the practical dangers, the world of twentysomething males can also be an alienating place, where the entrance fee is conformity and the ride is less than advertised. At a waterfront bar on Fire Island, there is gleeful solidarity as the guys chink glasses and catcall en masse to passing women (who resist). But on their own and without their liquid courage, there is also isolation and discontent."

I recommend reading the whole article HERE. It brought up a lot of solid points, and serves as commentary on my generation's crop of (could-be, would-be) men. But by no means am I pointing the finger at the entire male species here- in fact, I think the author of this article might have written it just to better justify his own recent marriage. And admittedly, it's not just guys who are guilty of dragging their feet to adulthood! To my fellow Peter Pan brothers (and sisters!), what do you think it will take to get us to finally grow up? Is it love?

I don't want to think about this anymore. I'll just go buy shit instead...

Sign language necklaces via NotCot, but the designer is Lorena Barrezueta

The watch-bangles of hers are fun, too...
tick-tock, tick-tock.

Similarly, these rings from Yuko Fukuhara pretend to be something they're not:

Consumer distraction jokes aside, I really did like how the Newsweek article discussed the changing evolution of youth culture. Wishing for pixie dust to help whisk you off to Neverland might work for now, but the long-term results may not be worth it. Just ask MGMT, for example...