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Girls the same age are more mature than boys. They develop differently. Maybe that's a factor?
by tompazourek 6y ago
Girls the same age are more mature than boys. They develop differently. Maybe that's a factor?
- mpweiher 6y agoMaybe, maybe not. However: if it were the other way around, would that ever be an acceptable answer nowadays?
- einpoklum 6y ago> would that ever be an acceptable answer nowadays? Changes in public sensibility regarding sex and gender are not a good basis to reject GP' claim. Of course, "girls develop earlier then boys" itself may have other, underlying, causes.
- ganzuul 6y agoLike environmental hormone response?
- kzrdude 6y agoWhat do we mean by mature though? It's a kind of bias to prefer one over the other, when it's simply different.
- loa_in_ 6y agoIf by mature we mean respecting tasks and duties, why don't we count duties to your own psyche and body into it? Being an adult is sometimes finding some occupancy that with minimum amount of time will give us the psychological comfort to do the maximum amount of paid work through the rest of the week (or day). Why don't we teach kids that being mature is caring for our needs too, instead of pushing them into the square hole of just duties that are demanded of them by everyone else.
- tomp 6y agoI've always heard this as a kid/young adult but as I've grown older, I've noticed that most people don't ever mature (well, at least not until 35-ish) so I've started doubting all claims and folk-wisdom about maturity pretty much wholesale...
- pmarreck 6y agoI see a lot of people in this thread speaking in generalities or correlations around gender. Is this OK, or not? I thought it wasn't OK, so I tend to avoid it, even if I think some of it may be true, but isn't stereotyping anyone based on attributes something we are trying NOT to do?
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