tove wrote:sure sure, women like fancy clothes and champagne, facebook and Katy Perry
Some of them...
(who's Katy Perry? )
tove wrote:sure sure, women like fancy clothes and champagne, facebook and Katy Perry
tove wrote:bobenns wrote:"One reason there are more male members of this forum is because as males we identify with Chris at the personal level, we see ourselves in him, we intuitively understand his inner frustration with the world. More women I think feel a maternal instinct to want to rescue him and set him back on track than to really know and understand him..... "
"I would think that to a lot of women in today's modern society that CM comes across as some kind of loser...."
"He wouldn't appeal to many of today's young women shopping for trendy clothes at the mall...."
I would say BULLSHIT. that totally goes for todays men too! sure sure, women like fancy clothes and champagne, facebook and Katy Perry but that is so not a gender thing. I've met just as many guys who could never live without their iPhone or brand jeans.
bobenns wrote:One reason there are more male members of this forum is because as males we identify with Chris at the personal level, we see ourselves in him, we intuitively understand his inner frustration with the world. More women I think feel a maternal instinct to want to rescue him and set him back on track than to really know and understand him.
A lot of people conclude that he had it all and threw it all away. He was no doubt headed down a path to a life of career and financial success, but not of real happiness in his own mind. He didn't take up the torch being passed to him from his father and run headlong into the world of brainy men doing technological development at the cutting edge of modern science and space exploration. He had what it takes to achieve in that world, he had a destiny set out for him there and all the right doors would be opened for him. But he declined it in his search for true meaning.
I would think that to a lot of women in today's modern society that CM comes across as some kind of loser. Lets face it, we are at a time of the most wasteful, shallow and meaningless consumerism of all time. People are so caught up in the acquiring and consuming of goods and services and energy that they cannot see outside the box. Chris asked the really big questions about life and went searching for the answers in the world as we know it, but also in himself. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and when you get to care about Chris its not about what he has, but who he is, a purposeful, bright, honest young man in search of the truth about life. Unbathed, in his tattered rags, He wouldn't appeal to many of today's young women shopping for trendy clothes at the mall.
But for those who see beyond this shallow wasteful consumerism that is destroying our planet, Chris is a icon, a light pointing to a different way of seeing, of being and living. There are alternatives to the dictates of society. Not starving in the bush, but living an alternative lifestyle with less waste and more open honest and meaningful relationships with others.
naturelover24 wrote:... older women sure!, but not younger..
GoNorth wrote:Interesting theories. Ok, mothers (and fathers) probably have a different point of view.
But for the rest, one possible difference between genders has not yet been mentioned yet: What about the girls and women who like McCandless as a MAN? I mean, he was a charismatic young guy in his prime and - depending on personal taste - not really ugly. I guess that in addition to the identification with his philosophy, this kind of sensation is probably more frequent among female McCandless-"fans" than the mother instinct.
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