If you can manage to look past the scorn in her tone, Kay Hymowitz provides an interesting glimpse at the child-man. Did your daughter go through a bad break-up recently, Kay? Anyway…

In her tirade, Kay denounces the senior cohort of Generation Y males for their “irresponsible” behaviour. Instead of fruitless endeavours such as video games, television and anything remotely entertaining, men should be focusing on their careers and marriage. According to Kay, the two are mutually exclusive and impossible to reconcile. But since the latter is the “right” thing to do, the choice is clear.

I could go on. Kay does raise valid points regarding the delaying of traditional “adulthood” in men, but the same can easily be said for women.

The issue here is not really about Millenial men or women, but about how the values of her generation are no longer the standard. Her anger is how Generation Y is redefining the rules — indeed, how every emerging generation redefines rules — and how the norms and beliefs her generation held are slowly becoming irrelevant.

At the end of the day…you can fight, lecture and ridicule generations that don’t agree with your worldview. That, however, simply marks you as a coot, the embodiment of the old scary grandmother who yells at the playing kids to get off her lawn.