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Originally Posted by Shadix
I am not sure what the concept is called, but yeah when you are an adult, age doesn't matter like it does when you are a child. However, people often like to pretend that women under 24-25 are still children. Basically what they want is for these women to be forbidden to every man who is more than 3-4 years older than them. It has nothing to do with any alleged "maturity difference", especially considering that when men date younger women, they are labeled as immature (If the man is immature, then how is there a maturity difference between him and the younger woman??). The alleged "maturity difference" is just a made up excuse.
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This is very weird. I was always told that girls mature earlier than boys and it is true both biologically and intellectually. Some boys grow in stature all the way till 25, but girls do not. In middle school especially it is plainly visible that girls mature earlier. And the old idea of holding boys back for Kindergarten is based on the belief that boys mature later, which more or less is true.
Another thing is how maturity is defined. Boys are less able to sit still in the classroom which is why traditionally it has been thought that they mature later, but the modern thinking MIGHT (I do not know and am conjecturing) hold that boys' have different learning styles.
Still, all things considered, girls start puberty earlier, usually get potty trained earlier, usually are verbal earlier than boys, etc.
hence this idea that young women are immature is extremely bizarre
But the point I was trying to make was unrelated to maturity.
96-91=5
and
6-1=5
but
96/91 is only slightly bigger than 1
while
6/1=6