"Study": Men don't grow up until age 43

Sasha_ · 2013-06-12T10:52:34+00:00

My personal top ten female maturity failings...

Reading '50 Shades of Grey', 'Twilight' etc. and thinking it's literature.
Disloyally discussing the 'faults' of their partner with their friends (and researchers from Nickelodeon).
Organising back-to-back activities for children, leaving them with no 'down-time'.
Knows more about the lives of characters in soap operas, than about the worries and concerns of her partner.
Self-generates almost all housework, then complains about housework.
Prudish about rude words.
Wears one kind of shoes for walking, another for driving. Doesn't think this is strange.
Gets drunk after three pints, insists you hold her hair back.
Bitches at work.
Bitches at home.

mountainmansOG · 2013-06-12T07:31:16+00:00

a quarter of women surveyed claimed they made all the important decisions in the relationship

I can't help but notice that they concluded men are immature based on what their female significant others told them, not based on any empirical data.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2013-06-12T09:20:09+00:00

Ahh yes, yet more "grow up and start catering to MY preferences!" gender-policing shaming language.

And yet more evidence of the Ageism-Masculosexism interaction effect which I point out in my work. "Maturity" = "Manhood" apparently (and both of these terms are vague and simply function as control mechanisms... "do what I say, grow up!" and "do what I say, be a man!" respectively.

Exactly_what_I_think · 2013-06-12T03:27:38+00:00

I will never grow up if this is the definition.

TOP 30 MALE MATURITY FAILINGS (according to women in the study):

1.Finding their own farts and burps hilarious

2.Eating fast food at 2 a.m.

3.Playing video games

4.Driving too fast or 'racing' another car at the lights or on the highway

5.Laughing a bit at rude words

6.Driving with loud music

7.Playing practical jokes

8.Trying to beat children at games and sport

9.Staying silent during an argument

10.Not being able to cook simple meals

11.Re-telling the same silly jokes and stories when with the boys

12.Don't like talking about themselves/ having proper conversations

13.Hating books/reading because of short attention span/they're boring

14.Doing crazy dance moves

15.Mom still doing their washing

16.Having their mom still make them breakfast/any meal

17.Wearing sneakers to night clubs

18.Owning a skateboard or BMX

19.Not eating vegetables

20.Changing jobs regularly

21.Getting too excited over bachelor parties

22.Sometimes trying to do wheelies/stunts on their bike

23.Driving a modified car or one with a loud exhaust

24.Showing off about how girls are attracted to them

25.Wearing pajamas, specifically cartoon pajamas

26.Using shady pickup lines

27.Showing off about protein shakes/weight-lifting/how much they 'lift'

28.Littering

29.Wearing saggy-crotched jeans

30.Having a cartoon bedspread

JesusSaidSo · 2013-06-12T05:45:23+00:00

research commissioned by Nickelodeon UK

Kay.

2013-06-12T13:25:46+00:00

Haha this is hilarious I am a woman and know that women act way more foolishly than men when they are young. They gossip, pick fights, focus on stupid shit, and a lot of the time make no attempt to contribute to society or care for themselves (they are brought up with the idea that a man will provide for them). While men are expected to care for themselves and any dependents on their own or they are looked down upon by everyone (I think that makes them the mature ones, if we're playing that game, and I'm a woman who loves reality, and obviously one who holds myself to the same standards as men are expected to). This is a very sexist article against men, seems almost like a joke. Written by unintelligent women most likely. Shameful.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-06-12T16:19:00+00:00

Let me guess, the study is a survey and women rated their partners more harshly than men did when it came to maturity (click link) yep.

So this is an effective measure not of relative maturity but for how critical the genders are of each other and what each expects from one another.

25 year old girl goes out partying with her friends every night then posts pictures of it on facebook: what a free spirit.

25 year old man does the same: what an immature loser. Grow up already.

Super_delicious · 2013-06-12T16:05:10+00:00

I like that my husband does those things. It keeps us balanced.

bjjbjj · 2013-06-12T18:59:22+00:00

wait. Sense when is maturity a good thing? You can still be responsible and respectful if you're immature. Being mature is for squares.

Lawtonfogle · 2013-06-12T21:25:03+00:00

20.Changing jobs regularly

That's the new normal of this economy.

herbandmargie · 2013-06-12T10:52:43+00:00

I like that list. I do a lot of them.

Cartoon pajamas....how did they know?

Methaxetamine · 2013-06-12T06:04:57+00:00

Haha girls do that stuff too, any 32 year old women or girls who don't do crazy dance moves or laughing a bit a rude words is lame as hell

Title	"Study": Men don't grow up until age 43
Author	agiganticpanda
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Date	June 12, 2013 3:03 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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