In what will surely provide screenwriters with a decade or so of hackneyed rom-com scripts (sample titles: “Better Late Than Never” and “Act Your Age!”), a new study into the difference in maturity between genders revealed that both genders agree men remain “immature” into their early 40s. Eight out of 10 women believe men “never stop being childish,” while both genders agree that women reach “proper maturity” much earlier, around 32. Women were nearly twice as likely to feel that they were the “grown-up” one in their relationship. Next in the news: Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl optioning a four-picture deal based on the study.
Getting To It
I don’t trust articles like this on maturity. What is meant by maturity ? How is it measured ? What sample population was tested ? Was the sample population culturally, linguistically, economically diverse enough to be able to conclude that men in fact reaction maturity at 43 ? What is the pathway socially, personally , psychologically for a male to reach maturity? Who would be an example of a mature man? What role does context play ? Were the surveys administered in such a way as to bias the results perhaps?
I am wondering in a society as morally bankrupt and misguided as our own, a society that dehumanizing people for the sake of profit would we truly recognize a mature person outside the technocratic, neo-liberal capitalistic background that we are so accustomed too that we don’t even recognize any more?
MEN’S TOP 30 MATURITY FAILINGS
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Finding their own farts and burps hilarious
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Eating fast food at 2:00am
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Playing videogames
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Driving too fast or ‘racing’ another car at the lights or on the motorway
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Sniggering a bit at rude words
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Driving with loud music
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Playing practical jokes
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Trying to beat children at games and sport
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Staying silent during an argument
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Not being able to cook simple meals
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Re-telling the same silly jokes and stories when with the lads
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Don’t like talking about themselves/ having proper conversations
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Hating books/reading because of short attention span/they’re boring
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Doing crazy dance moves
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Mum still doing their washing
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Having their Mum still make them breakfast/any meal
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Wearing trainers to night clubs
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Not eating vegetables
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Changing jobs regularly
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Getting too excited over stag do’s
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Sometimes trying to do wheelies/stunts on their bike
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Driving a modified car or one with a loud exhaust/boy racer
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Showing off about how girls are attracted to them
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Wearing pyjamas, specifically cartoon pyjamas
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Using dodgy chat-up lines
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Showing off about protein shakes/weight-lifting/how much they ‘lift’
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Wearing saggy-crotched jeans
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Having a cartoon bedspread
Concluding
I have more to say about this of course but tell me.
What do you consider to be a mark of maturity in both male and females?
What do you think about this finding ?
ASpoonfulofSuga 
Lol, I do about half the things on that list. Then again, I’m not a very good example of womanhood, am I?
One of the best sayings: “Growing OLD is mandatory, growing UP is optional.”
I think maturity is being a selfless person. Not that you work all the time or give half your paycheck to charities. I mean that you finally understand that the world really doesn’t revolve around YOU. That others are equally important and deserve the same chance to speak or to obtain goods/services. If you come to this realization when you’re 50, so be it. If you are more observant and become selfless at age 12, that’s fine too.
I don’t care if you need to still live with your parents, or don’t want to give up your childhood hobbies, or even if you only wear pajamas on your days off. If you understand that other beings matter just as much as you…Congratulations! You’re mature!
Thus, the above cited study/survey is crap.
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This study most assuredly is crap. I’m in my 40’s (yikes) and I have batman sheets. I get this survey “measure of maturity” thing targets men but, seriously? Owning a skateboard does not make one immature, being irresponsible makes one immature.
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