Immature Men

[milly143]

Do you think it's true that men mature slower than women and if so, why?

[rowanwitch]

takes me back to sallas post last week..... but now I am being immature

[joggerjayne]

A sideways kebab ...

Okaaay.

Except that with a kebab, if the meat was pink, you wouldn't eat it.

[McMouse]

Better with mayo jj.

[joggerjayne]

LOL mousey ...

Careful, girl ... you'll get us zapped !

=0)

[Arksided]

Yes we do mature slower than girls, it's in practice to tolerate all the winging and moaning we have to put up with in later life.

[McMouse]

Men certainly take longer to mature than women. We're like fine wine....it takes years. On the other hand most women are like cheap plonk, sharp on the tongue and as for the nose.......forget it.

[joggerjayne]

Did I just call mousey "Girl" ???

Sorry, mousey.

[Scylax]

Ref: the slower maturation of males from pre-birth onwards, I would refer you to the definitive explanation found in:
'Males and Females' by Corinne Hutt
Penguin Education, Harmondsworth, 1972.
Dr. Hutt cogently explains why the genetic 'readout' is slower when a Y chromosome is present in the sex-differentiating chromosomes at locus 23.

All genetic material is read and acted upon when the configuration is XY(normal male)
including all the aberrants, whether good or bad, whereas these are skipped in the XX
pattern. The distribution of all genetically determined features is therefor wider and shallower in the male. Maturation is one of these features.
Many (most?) mothers will testify that their female offspring walk, talk and read earlier than their boy-babies, and generally benefit from the oestrogen with which they are endowed. This benefit continues until menopause.

In the educational stakes, girls are generally 4 or 5 years ahead of the boys; this is a sound argument for the provision of all-girl schools.

There is more, lots more, but I would urge the reading of this fine analysis of sex development and its consequences.

[Booldawg]

'All genetic material is read and acted upon when the configuration is XY(normal male)
including all the aberrants, whether good or bad'

isnt there a user on AB called aberrant?