What does the OP’s job have to do with anything?
From the OP:
Unless I missed something, that was the basis for his anecdotal evidence which formed the basis for this “great debate”.
Most of our ideas about how humans behave are formed by our experience dealing with humans. The staement “girls mature faster than boys” is one I’ve heard a lot. It seems like a propostition as worthy for debate as anything else. If it doesn’t seem like that to you, you’re free not to participate. That would be a better option than threadshitting, which is what you did.
“Mature faster than boys” in a physical sense? Do girls enter, exist, or exit puberty before boys? Or “mature faster than boys” is their behavior? Do girls succeed more in school? Does that project to better successes in the future? Or “mature faster than boys” when renting movies from a video clerk.
Sure, it is possible to dig for something resembling an actual debate somewhere in the OP. Too bad the OP did nothing to start that actual debate.
I do agree it’s more IMHO than GD. But it seems to me that his meaning was fairly obvious from the OP. He wasn’t asking about physical development, but about emotional maturity.
ETA: must go to bed now, it’s 11 here.
Females are less likely to resort to physical violence to resolve disputes.
Females are able to control ego impulses more easily. Yes, that counts. Just because a difference is obvious, it shouldn’t count?
(These are statements about adolescents in general and certainly there are exceptions.)
There was an interesting topic in the OP and maybe we can actually salvage a constructive discourse out of what’s left.
Personally, I don’t think that girls mature any quicker than boys. Of course I base this entirely off of anecdotal evidence so you can rest assured that my statements are 100% applicable in all places and in all situations. Are girls less likely to act out in class? Yes. Are girls more likely to do better in school? It seemed that way when I was in high school and in college it seems like more young women are involved in honor societies. At least in the liberal arts.
Do these traits make girls more mature? I don’t think so. Perhaps we just have different expectations on how females can act so they manifest their stupid behaviors differently from males.
I base my assertion that girls don’t mature faster than boys based on the bone headed decisions I’ve seen them make. I’ve seen them torment other girls, make some piss poor romantic decisions, and, at least to me, their taste in fashion, music, movies, etc., doesn’t seem any better than that of boys their same age. Seriously, boys my age certainly didn’t make New Kids on the Block a household name.
Odesio
I suspect that this thread has been trashed.
I am closing it without prejudice and the same topic may be re-posted, preferably framed in a way that will encourage arguments supported by data.
Hamlet, if you think that there is a problem with a thread, report the thread with your misgivings. DO NOT make personal attacks on a poster just to vent your spleen.
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