youths of DU! think about your choices before it's too late!!!1111

[datasuspect]

the map of life:

http://home.beaumontenterprise.com/newsphotos/PDF_files/071012_youthmap.pdf

[lightningandsnow]

1. Hey, what's so wrong with promiscuity?

I'm not kidding. I have an issue with demonizing consensual sexual behavior.

As long as you're safe, I actually think it might be alright to be "promiscuous" or whatever. Sur3e it might have emotional consequences, but let people sort those out themselves. It's not for me but I'm not going to be judgemental of other's sex lives.

(Edited to add: nothing wrong with single parenting either, I know children of single parents who are perfectly well-adjusted, and some people are single parents by choice.)

[SKKY]

6. Where were all the girls who think like you when I was single???

:shrug:

(On Edit: Welcome to DU!)

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. The fuck??

The Beaumont Enterprise's managing editor for features, sports and presentation is an old chat-room acquaintance of mine. Did they publish this? In what context?

:wtf:

[datasuspect]

4. i don't know if it was in the print version

but i got that from the online version.

SE texas is a spiritual extension of alabama/mississippi types of bible-beltism.

[Deja Q]

3. Easy Money Drive. That's where 1% of Americans live...

:hide:

[MedleyMisty]

5. I like the "Legacy Parkway"

So are they admitting that you need rich parents to get there?

[Coyote_Bandit]

7. So the only way

to arrive at destination "Productive Life" is via "Family Way"? Fuck that shit. Demonizes and stigmatizes all single folks regardless of their sexual orientation.

Also find it ironic that "Recovery Road" intersects "Community Drive," "Employment Drive," "Corporation Drive" and "Entrepreneurship Way."

[Ava]

8. ummm.. uhhh

yeah - i got nothing :shrug: :rofl:

[Scooter24]

9. I guess there's no way to live a productive life

without first going down "Love Parkway" then "Family Way" before going to "Legacy Parkway"

Yeah... :eyes:

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. You can mostly bypass "Love Parkway"

"Education Way" intersects "Love Parkway" where it becomes "Family Way."

I'll resist the urge to comment on what this suggests about educated folks who have families.....

You cannot bypass "Family Way" if your destination is "Productive Life."

[Scooter24]

11. Hmm...

But to get to "Education Way" I'll need to either go up "Recovery Road" (WTF?), cut across "Community Drive" before going up "Graduate Road." There I'll need to either go back to school or join the military to get to "Education Way"

But I could go up "Straight & Narrow Road" (being gay that might pose a problem), then up "Sacrifice Lane" before going on the one-way street "Spiritual Road" then over to "Disciplin Drive" turning left onto "Self Esteem Drive" and then onto "Freedom Drive" before getting onto "Education Way"

Either way I'm screwed!! lol

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Or, Daddy buys you one o' these

And you just plow through all that shit.

[Deja Q]

12. Until the job gets offshored; that's when the family divorces...

Life isn't productive after that...

:(

[otherlander]

14. Single Parent Street?

:wtf: