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And girls at 12 are adults. Right. I sure hope if you have (or ever have) a daughter, you don't view her that way at that age. Boys and girls at that age are adolescents, and toward the beginning of adolescence at that, even if the girls are on average a little ahead of boys at that age.
Am I really doing such a bad job of explaining myself? I am not saying girls of 12 are adults! I am saying that, in one teensy-tiny area of life, defined as the danger of being alone in the woods with a stranger, physical size and strength may be as, or more, significant than age. Is that so bizarre?
Am I really doing such a bad job of explaining myself? I am not saying girls of 12 are adults! I am saying that, in one teensy-tiny area of life, defined as the danger of being alone in the woods with a stranger, physical size and strength may be as, or more, significant than age. Is that so bizarre?
i totally agree with your main point here but i think where you lost plzen was with the quote below, which i have to agree with him was utterly ridiculous. also insulting to any man who had real responsibilities at 21, perhaps that's why he jumped on it. the whole "young men are like children emotionally" is largely a stereotype, not quite as bad or unfounded as some of the others that float around CDR but still annoying to some of us. it stems from an actual fact (adolescent females reach sexual maturity quicker than males and on average display some signs of emotional maturity slightly younger than males) but gets turned into nonsense like the statement below too often here
at 21 i was working two jobs and paying my way through college, and would shortly thereafter be supporting two terminally ill parents. other men are sitting in foxholes or bunkers at that age or younger. to compare them to girls who are still probably playing with barbie dolls is crappy
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Originally Posted by NilaJones
You have to remember that, in terms of emotional and social maturity, a girl at 12 is about the same as a boy at 21.
No, she lost me with her comparison of herself as a grown woman to a guy's 10 year old daughter in two years, and her utter confusion when he pointed out to her that she is, in fact, a grown woman and his daughter is not. Whatever, though. Let's move on.
I guess this is kind of backwards related to most of the other examples because it is at my expense, but I exposed a young woman to the most horrible first date ever more than a dozen years ago. I made out with her at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and the date the next day was going to be the first time we actually got to talk to each other. I was 20 and I had just gotten a new motorcycle. I went to pick her up at her apartment, and when I showed up with a bike and two helmets she initially started complaining. I assured her I would be very careful and that we were just going a mile or two. Well, to make a long story short she fell off the back. In my defense, it was because she tried to put her feet on the muffler instead of the foot pegs, against my instructions, giving her a horrible center of gravity. She walked home and that was the end of that. I never saw her again, but when I was in graduate school I was the TA for her younger brother. The story had grown over the course of a few years, because her brother told me that he had heard that I pulled a wheelie and that is why she fell off, not that she fell off at a stop sign.
tell me you got your helmet back
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I sure hope if you have (or ever have) a daughter, you don't view her that way at that age. Boys and girls at that age are adolescents, and toward the beginning of adolescence at that, even if the girls are on average a little ahead of boys at that age.
... that'd be them reading through my C-D posting history after the previous date.
