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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope
Depends by what you mean by being mature. I would say men are more mature then women because women tend to be more materialistic and unrealistic. Also if you define maturity by sitting down in a class and learning a bunch of crap which in reality doesn't improve your chances of make a decent living, then yes women are mature in that respect. But on the whole, women take longer to mature then men.
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girls hit puberty earlier, on average. Their growth stops earlier, on average. So they mature, in the biological sense, earlier than boys. They reach developmental milestones earlier, on average, as well. Boys catch up later and after age 25, there is no difference, but until age 25, there are still boys who grow taller and taller but girls by then have stopped growing. Humans are still animals and such facts as when the skeleton matures, when the growth stops, when reproduction becomes possible still matter. The last bit about reproduction probably matters the most. Calling a 20 year woman a child, given that she has probably been able to produce a child of her own for ~7 years already, is kind of... very weird. As if biology mattered not.
What Shadix said about the age divide for casual flings is a wild assumption. It is not tested against reality. I thought that Shadix's idea for this thread was to debunk wild assumptions and stereotyping about relationships across age groups; instead, different wild assumptions and different stereotyping are offered as substitutes for what was being challenged. How does it help to discard one stereotype in favor of another?