Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Courting Confusion
This story was slightly confusing. I had a hard time figuring out what "hooking up" meant. I think this story is like a timeline for us to compare about "hooking up" in the older generations and our generation. I think "hooking up" in the older generations meant to get married, but in our generation, "hooking up" generally means to have a relationship with someone, most preferrably the opposite sex. If a girl asked to hook up with another girl, and remember the term "hooking up" in our generation means to have a relationship with someone, people would assume the girl to be gay. The term is most often and best used with the opposite sex, not marriage. When someone mentions the saying "asked the (big) question", it usually means someone has asked or mentioned the thought of marriage. I'm sure there are other terms in this generation, but I don't know them all. To me, "hooking up" is the first stage of marriage. The boy and hooks up, become friends, then boyfriend and girlfriend if the relationship deepens to which he courts me, to fiances, and finally to husband and wife. I don't how the older generations prepared for marriage, but this is how I'd do it.
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2 comments:
Ha ha, you are so funny! But ya I totally agree with you. I think whoever this lady was that wrote this story was hoping for the past but she needed to do more research on how things are today.
I actually thought that "hooking up" meant that people who don't know each other that well were either making out or taking it a few steps further than that.
Oh well, I guess we will never be able to put a true defintion on those two words.
I was also kind of confused towards the end, but what i felt she was talking about, was that the author feels that courting has changed or is in the process of changing. That hooking up is the new meaning of dating. But i dont agree with her meaning though, to me its having relationship, like dating, not having one night stands.
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