I think it's like a mixture of confusing girls hitting puberty earlier on average, and a mixture of socialization and differences in how people handle hormonal changes which makes boys more erratic. Taking it at face value it's talking about brain development, and then it's just false, brains continue developing until our mid 20s across genders.
Part of me thinks it's hearing younger women get told "you're mature for your age" a lot, and assuming it's an observation rather than a generic thing some dudes tell women who are too young for them.
I think it also has to do with what teens of those genders feel and how they express it. Teen girls are pressured to look beautiful and act in opposite ways(punished for being modest and also for being promiscuous). This causes sorrow for never quite being "right" for society, and despair because this new state seems to only get worse moving forward. Women are also socialized not to act out, so only sadness can manifest. For teen boys, they're told to grow up and be a man but aren't actually allowed to do adult things yet, and slowly have to grind through the worst version of adult things(awful summer jobs instead of regular employment, beater cars or just walking, drinking cheap and bad alcohol.) Men are socialized to act out more, so negative feelings manifest as anger and defiance. This period of life seems interminable before the real thing starts, so it leads to lasjing out wishing to skip ahead.
Being quiet and resigned is taken as maturity compared to being belligerent and loud.
Do they ever provide evidence for the first claim or are we all supposed to just take their word for it?
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I believe we call this "combat age males" in the Middle East.
I think it's like a mixture of confusing girls hitting puberty earlier on average, and a mixture of socialization and differences in how people handle hormonal changes which makes boys more erratic. Taking it at face value it's talking about brain development, and then it's just false, brains continue developing until our mid 20s across genders.
Part of me thinks it's hearing younger women get told "you're mature for your age" a lot, and assuming it's an observation rather than a generic thing some dudes tell women who are too young for them.
I think it also has to do with what teens of those genders feel and how they express it. Teen girls are pressured to look beautiful and act in opposite ways(punished for being modest and also for being promiscuous). This causes sorrow for never quite being "right" for society, and despair because this new state seems to only get worse moving forward. Women are also socialized not to act out, so only sadness can manifest. For teen boys, they're told to grow up and be a man but aren't actually allowed to do adult things yet, and slowly have to grind through the worst version of adult things(awful summer jobs instead of regular employment, beater cars or just walking, drinking cheap and bad alcohol.) Men are socialized to act out more, so negative feelings manifest as anger and defiance. This period of life seems interminable before the real thing starts, so it leads to lasjing out wishing to skip ahead.
Being quiet and resigned is taken as maturity compared to being belligerent and loud.