Age, Race, Gender, Religion, Political Affiliation, Nationality…

Listening to people at work sharing statistics, experiences, and generalizations:

-Teenage girls are getting bolder and starting to become a lot more rude and vagrantly disrespectful.

-Teens are cussing a lot more.

-Girls are getting a lot more aggressively drunk in bars –most guys will bow out when they’re told to leave the bar for being too rowdy but women are losing control far more than guys and have a harder time knowing their drinking limit.

-People are texting on the phones more these days while driving and most of those people are women because women are far more social than men and have a harder time putting down their cell phones than guys.

-Most of the girls who got pregnant in my high school were Mormon…

Personally I think a distinction needs to be made between Yin and Yang because it’s a lot harder to make generalizations in general if Yin and Yang aren’t taken into consideration. Some guys are more “feminine” oriented and some girls are more “masculine” oriented. Also “Age” isn’t as significant as “Maturity Level”. I know some teens that are more mature than some 40 year olds. It all has to do with who learns from their mistakes and who just keeps making new ones without thinking.  

“Social Situations” also have a lot to do with social behaviors. So when you say “teens are a lot more violent and chaotic than they used to be” –generally an individual teen will mind their own business and 2 teens will still be pretty well behaved, but when a large group of teens get together their actions become a lot more ostentatious and bold.  Call it peer pressure.

As far as women v. men when it comes to knowing their alcohol limit and avoiding inebriation –the main reason people drink to that extent or plan to drink to that extent is because they’re trying to drown out their problems instead of facing them. Alcohol becomes an escape from the stress, pain, and conflict going on at home or at work. All people who seek alcohol as the solution to their problems will run into drunkenness as a result. Male or female doesn’t really matter –although you could argue that since most men are larger physically, they can withstand a lot more alcohol than women can and therefore tend to get less drunk in general.

In general –generalizations only work when you dig deep and look at the underlying reasons why something might be occurring.