Female Journo Goes Off On One at Men

Normally I'd say that men deserve it too, but this time it's ridiculous.

If you can even stomach the entire article, you'll find out that she believes (using Actual Scientific Data(TM) ) men should be getting a mortgage instead of an Xbox. But wait, there's more. She also thinks that they should be getting sensible jobs, that they should not go out drinking with their friends and that they should stop using cosmetics. You understand now why I have to reply.

Let's start at the beginning. At age 25, how many people earn enough to even qualify for a mortgage? I'm guessing not that many. So even if you did want to, you probably couldn't get one anyway. I know house prices round London means I'd need to earn twice what I do now in order to afford even the longest mortgage period.

Secondly, human beings are a social animal. Presumably this mad bint must think that women should therefor not visit their friends either, right? I'm guessing she doesn't. Just because the actions are different does not mean the social interaction isn't the same thing. So guys go out drinking while women might stay in drinking or watch a movie. It's still a social event where you meet up with people your own age and have some fun.
Same as the gaming. We all need a way to let off steam, to relax, or just to forget about the daily grind for a while. Gaming is one way of doing it. Since these days you can combine this with social interactions in online games, it fits two of these categories.

And thirdly, cosmetics. Now correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought part of being a 21st century male was the sudden pressure put on us to take care of our appearace. The sudden appearance of "For Men" moisturisers is testament to this. So now we're NOT supposed to use them? Time to make up your mind I think.

On this no doubt highly researched and 100% factual article, she also lists a load of stats which say that the average number of men married by age 25 and 30 has fallen over the past few years. According to her, this is down to immaturity and the desire to not settle down.
Is it not also possible that it could be because these days they are still in college or can't afford to get married? Is it also not possible that many more people see marriage as unnecessary these days?
Also remember that the stats there mean WOMEN aren't getting married there either. Does it all have to be the man's fault? Is it possible they just haven't met the right person? Have they maybe no interest in committment because of the unrealistic ideals forced upon us by articles like this?

Look at it this way. The 1990 US Census said (yes I did research - shut up) that the average age of women giving birth for the first time has gone up 4 years since 1970. If a 1.5 year shift (mentioned in the article) is a lot, what does 4 years say?
If you use Kay Hymaintenence's article's way of thinking, you could assume that women are frigid old maids and are only having families when they feel they should.

Now I did go through the entire article and one theme really jumps out at me. It sounds exactly like what she wants is a cliched 50's suburban lifestyle. Like Edward Scissorhands, the man goes to work at "the plant" all day, comes back and does home improvements until bed time, when he goes to sleep wearing sensible plaid pyjamas and gets in a solid 8 hours.
But I bet if I also sugggested that means she wants to stay home all day chatting to her neighbours, having the dinner on the table for the man coming home and fetching his slippers when he called for them, I'd get lynched. You can't have it both ways.

We're either masculine enough that we do everything the way we want, or we become pointless doormats with no personality or substance and do everything the way they want.

And I'm not done yet.

Presumably, she must have been in a relationship with a man at one point. Presumably she has also gone out to try and find the "perfect" partner. That's how the 'game' works.
Seems to me that if you find someone that you like and you get to know them, find out who they are and what makes them tick, it's completely stupid to then try and change everything about them.

Women like shopping and jewellery and clothes and shoes and cheesecake. I accept this. I don't like any of those, but I accept that if these are the things they enjoy, I don't have the right to take them away.
Is it okay to say the same about the things men like?

The entire article is nothing but prejudice, backed up by loosely-related statistics. I bet if you substituted "man" with "woman" or "black man" or something, you'd have a law suit on your hands faster than you could say "Xbox". Because it's just man-bashing, nobody gives a damn. I'm getting sick of it.