The Dallas Morning News columnist Kay Hymowitz has launched a scathing attack on modern 20 something males calling on them to drop the game pad and grow up.

Now meet the 21st-century you, also 26. You’ve finished college and work in a cubicle in a large Chicago financial-services firm. You live in an apartment with a few single guy friends. In your spare time, you play basketball with your buddies, download the latest indie songs from iTunes, have some fun with the Xbox 360, take a leisurely shower, massage some product into your hair and face – and then it’s off to bars and parties, where you meet, and often bed, girls of widely varied hues and sizes. Wife? Kids? House? Are you kidding?

Single young males, or SYMs, by contrast, often seem to hang out in a playground of drinking, hooking up, playing Halo 3 and, in many cases, underachieving. With them, adulthood looks as though it’s receding.

Ignoring the fact that since the 1960s (the era on which she compares current men) many social changes have occurred and the men getting married and having kids later is not just a result of video games and iTunes. Society has changed and she seems to be finding whatever she can to blame the change on. This is yet another example of people not wanting to grow up with the times and blaming anything ‘new’ as being the reason for the change in society. They my friends are the people who need to grow up.

(Thanks to CVG for the info)