Saturday, June 03, 2006
The Wingman Game was recently featured in a major U.S. newspaper. What's that you ask? It's how young college men pick up girls in bars and clubs these days. Basically a guy spots a girl he would like to get to know (translation: go home to bed with) and he makes the approach. The problem is that the girl is surrounded by a pack of friends. Wingmen to the rescue! Their job is to swoop in and distract the girl's friends long enough for the lead man to talk the girl into going home with him. The backdrop to all this consists of lots of alcohol, loud music, text messaging, and hormones.
The story would have ended there but that it featured some of the GW University crowd thus pointing a finger at the son being part of the wingman game as well. Anna Bloviations forwarded this article to a number of people and the feedback was quite astonishing. First there was hubby who started to shake his head in dismay until I reminded him that he had himself been a ski instructor in his youth, with girls as numerous as shots of Schnapps. Another response came from a friend who said, "Gee it's good they played soccer all those years when they were young. Look what team spirit they have!" Yet another friend commented, "Sometimes youth is not wasted on the young...." The most conservative reactions ironically came from the west coast. "Do we condone this sort of behavior?" asked an old school friend who herself was no angel at USC. And then there is Anna Bloviations' own mother who commented she wasn't too happy about the article. This from a woman who was part of the Greenwich Village scene in New York in the 50's mind you... It's as if we think our own sexual forays during youth are somehow above the moral fray of today's sexual promiscuity, when really a one night stand is a one night stand. Period. Perhaps the only difference was that we just never got caught on the front page of a newspaper.... In the phone call Anna Bloviations made to the son following the article, "So do you think your wingman could help you score a good job while he's at it?"
The story would have ended there but that it featured some of the GW University crowd thus pointing a finger at the son being part of the wingman game as well. Anna Bloviations forwarded this article to a number of people and the feedback was quite astonishing. First there was hubby who started to shake his head in dismay until I reminded him that he had himself been a ski instructor in his youth, with girls as numerous as shots of Schnapps. Another response came from a friend who said, "Gee it's good they played soccer all those years when they were young. Look what team spirit they have!" Yet another friend commented, "Sometimes youth is not wasted on the young...." The most conservative reactions ironically came from the west coast. "Do we condone this sort of behavior?" asked an old school friend who herself was no angel at USC. And then there is Anna Bloviations' own mother who commented she wasn't too happy about the article. This from a woman who was part of the Greenwich Village scene in New York in the 50's mind you... It's as if we think our own sexual forays during youth are somehow above the moral fray of today's sexual promiscuity, when really a one night stand is a one night stand. Period. Perhaps the only difference was that we just never got caught on the front page of a newspaper.... In the phone call Anna Bloviations made to the son following the article, "So do you think your wingman could help you score a good job while he's at it?"
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