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A 10 page overview of the numerous stereotypes we employ when we consider middle aged men. This paper approaches middle aged behavior from both a physiological and a societal standpoint to contend that no one description can be provided. Explored are the concepts of mid life crisis and the Peter Pan Syndrome. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPmenMid.rtf
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Our perception of middle age have varied over time, this is true in the sense of time in general and in the sense of time as it
occurs within our own life spans. As mankind as a whole has aged, our understanding of the physiological and societal factors influencing middle age has improved dramatically. As
we ourselves age, our eagerness to criticize or to hold negative images of an age group that we either already belong to or are destined to belong to in the
very near future) decreases dramatically. Never-the-less certain stereotypical remain a prevalent component of our collective consciousness. This is particularly true in regard to middle-aged men. When we think
of a Middle-aged man the concept so often brought to mind is that of the so called "Peter Pan Syndrome", an image memorialized in the book of the same title
by author Dan Kiley. We think of the man who for whatever reasons is reluctant to grow up. We think of the balding yet carefully touped man in
the red convertible or astride the $30,000 Harley Hog. In any factually based analysis of how middle age affects the male members of our society, however, we must force
ourselves to separate truth from fiction and to ferret out the reasons within which many of our misperceptions are rooted. It is hard
to separate middle-aged men as a group from the rest of society. Obviously they are different from women. Their testicles prove that fact. They also exhibit secondary
sex characteristics such as increased facial hair. But what else do we have to classify this group? Perhaps by that elusive concept of masculinity? The first two
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