Not in the mood

May 18, 2009 10:57

How come every time I get an awe-inspiring speech for my blog, I NEVER NEED TO BLOG OR DONT HAVE A COMP!?!?!? What the heck? I mean really, is it so much to ask that I get my "Eureka!" moments when I NEED THEM!!? Like the other day, I had a great one, about the false illusion of sexual maturity differences... actually now that I think on it, I can ( Read more... )

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Re: probably not joshuabatista_a May 19 2009, 17:46:17 UTC
Hm... tell me Lacey, how do you scientifically prove that one sex matures mentally faster, socially faster, or likewise, when for one, its society that sets these standards of maturity, and for two, the idea of it is a mass psychological profiling that cannot be proven because we barely can scratch the surface of the things in the human mind? Saying that it has been proven is like saying someone went around reading everyone's minds and doing a survey from their thoughts to figure out which sex matured faster. Furthermore, saying it has been scientifically proven is like saying that we have a guess, because that's all science is.
To continue, the idea that women maturing socially and mentally faster is an urban myth created by the misunderstanding that it HAS been proven they mature physically faster. Since the word "mature" means "to grow", but most people use it as a social or mental reference, it is easy to confuse the fact that they mature physically faster with the belief that they mature mentally or socially faster.
If you have any proof contradicting this, I would like to see it so that I can have a chance to find proof supporting my statement.
Thank you ! :)
(PS Well, I agree with you on the "L" word. Most of the time you only hear it from the opposite sex, mainly because you shouldn't hear it from the same [unless u go that way, then u should]. Also, take note that I DID notice the part where you said that that didn't mean they were more mature, just that I don't agree that social/mental maturity rate of speed can be scientifically measured and proven)

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Re: probably not laceysmurphy_a May 19 2009, 18:48:56 UTC
lol, well to be completely honest that wasn't the way i thought you would go. XD
However, i DO swing both ways and i will admit that i have heard the "L" word thrown around by both sides but, and this is where the two connect, because women are more emotionally driven they are prone to early mistakes that men often are not. Because of these mistakes, women have a tendency to be forced into maturing so as not to keep getting hurt because they are still going to be emotionally driven. So this doesn't mean that all women mature faster, just that we are prone to do so by the mistakes that it seems we are the only ones to make. However, there are many emotionally driven women who are completely immature and dumb as a door-nail just as there are many emotionally driven men who find themselves in the same situation thus they to are forced into maturing.

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Re: probably not joshuabatista_a May 19 2009, 19:11:34 UTC
True, true. But none of this proves that either sex matures faster. Rather it proves that people under certain conditions mature faster than those under other.

Of course, there is also the case that just as there are women who are emotionally driven, there are men who are the same. But then you must remember that that applies to the other way around, so there are also women who are not emotionally driven.

Actually scratch that, I lied. There is no such thing as being "unemotionally driven". That just does not exist. Everything we do is a result of our emotions. There is nothing that we can do that will not be driven by our emotions. You cannot just throw emotion to the side and make a decision, because emotion governs our logic. You might think saving one person at the cost of a thousand lives is illogical, but that is only because of emotion. I think what you are trying to refer to is emotionally confused. Everyone is prone to early mistakes, unfortunate it is a part of life. They do not grow up adn then start making a mistake, they make mistakes the moment they leave the womb, sometimes even while they are still in the womb.

With that said, I have an idea for how to prove that women and men mature equally. Well not prove, as nothing can be truly proven, but I can come up with convincing evidence that supports the theory. If you took two children, one male and one female, and raised them in exactly the same way, giving them the same amount of love and teaching them in the same way, then the theory that says that women mature mentally and socially faster than men would say that the girl would be able to crawl in two or three months, and the guy in four or five. The girl would be able to talk towards year one. The guy year two, and so forth. However, when taking child parenting class or any class that might tell when about the average time a child learns something, I would like you to find me ONE reference that says something like a girl will walk here, and a guy will walk a couple months later.

Make sense?

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