On a general basis....who matures faster?

[Mr. Lennon]

From my experiences I would say girls do. Thus the reason why girls date older guys, especially in highschool. Guys their age are not always mature enough for them.

 

[gutharius]

Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282
From my experiences I would say girls do. Thus the reason why girls date older guys, especially in highschool. Guys their age are not always mature enough for them.

Very true.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: gutharius

Originally posted by: Jero

are you a guy or a girl?

Guy, the matruity level of a guy after about 32 and one before that is like night and day. But they still fall way short in emotional adeptivity. The men I date are more often mistaken for being straight, myself included.

It can start waaay before the age of 32 dude. Many folks have commented that I was extremely mature for my age (back when I was 20 or so)

Maybe it's the environment you grow up in helps determine at what age you grow up mentally

 

[Eavan]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Eavan

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: MCrusty
Girl does physically...but I would say the guy does mentally.

Oh I really hope you're joking...
Girls mature faster physically, and I'd say at least 90% of them mature faster mentally--socially and emotionally speaking that is.

do you smoke crack on a daily basis?

i have not met a mentally stable girl to this date, im 23, no college girl is mentally stable

Maybe you just attract the crazy ones
IMO, college in general is damaging to anyone's mental or emotional stability. And no, the crack problem is cleared up (mostly).

 

[gutharius]

I would also cite that in marriages it is the woman that is the master manipulator as she is better capable of understanding her mates social and emotional underpinings and thus push the right buttons in the right order.

 

[gutharius]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: gutharius

Originally posted by: Jero

are you a guy or a girl?

Guy, the matruity level of a guy after about 32 and one before that is like night and day. But they still fall way short in emotional adeptivity. The men I date are more often mistaken for being straight, myself included.

It can start waaay before the age of 32 dude. Many folks have commented that I was extremely mature for my age (back when I was 20 or so)

Maybe it's the environment you grow up in helps determine at what age you grow up mentally

Yeah I would agree with you on the environment factor, except you are a unique rarity not the norm. Me personally I had to grow up really early, parents died early on and I had to fend for myself; tends to shock you into maturity...

As a side note, I do notice that children that have harder childhoods tend to be more grounded and responsible than those that had mommy and daddy feeding the lollipops all the time.

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
Girl does physically...but I would say the guy does mentally.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Females mature faster simply because they have more opportunities to gain experience in areas like sexual relationships and society encourages women to be more contemplative about that sort of thing. In contrast, males have fewer opportunities to gain experience in those areas for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with inherent maturity, and society encourages males to be less contemplative and more competitive with other males.

So, I'm going with social structure and environment over inherent nature. My hypothesis is that if the social structure were reversed, males would end up being more mature, younger.

 

[xarmian]

I would like to add, that I find girls before college to be far more mature than when they enter college.. it's like there's this sudden loss of maturity when they get there. After college, they tend to re-mature.

-Dave