Age Restrictions

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How old do you think a female has to be before she can be called a "woman"? And how old does a guy have to be before he is a "man"? And how old to too old to be calling some body a "boy" or a "girl"?How old where you when you desided you were a man or a woman?Or is it a matter of experience? If you have sex/ drink a beer/ get your period NOW your a man/woman?I find this pretty interesting really and kinda wanna know what the deal is with these labels.

I don't really put age restrictions onthose words. I call adults boys or girls and sometimes I call little kids men or woman. If I were to start putting age restrictions (to put more emphasize the meaning of the words) I would do it on how much I respect the person, or their maturity. Which probably what I am going to start doing.

I was on a train walking down the carriage and there was this large chavish family occupying the entire centre of it. I could get past cos the mother was fumbling through her bags in the aisle. Her little son says "Mum the man cant get past". Thusly I became a man, at 17.On the whole I think its about maturity.

Hehe, that's an exellent story.I don't know. Woman sounds so old to me...more so then man.I like lady though because it dosn't seem to imply age so much in my opinion. I call lots of my friends lady and I like the way it sounds. But then, I'm a weirdo, my firends agree

well, i actually call the gals i know...gals, it doesnt imply immaturity or maturity, youth or age, it just...is

I think the changes i used to think that people that 20 were like kinda men and woman. I dont really have an age now. I think you are a man when you get your own place and have enough money to take care of woman. But it depends no matter how old my brother get he will always be a boy.

If only we were all Jewish, then we're told when we're men and women.

There are lots of cultures that have rites of passage to adulthood. In our culture men don't grow up until they're 30. Teenagers get to hang around and play video games. I the old days they'd have a family and a potato farm by the time they were 18, and they'd be ready to kick off by the time they were in their 40's.

But Jews get cake!!

I thought Jewish boys got nice gifts when they turned 13...

Nowadays you turn 13 and then go back to being a kid after the ceremony is over.

Thats cause religion is dying. (Yay!)Religion is dying because more and more people don't care about it, and a lot of those that do are killing each other over it.

I don't know about the whole girl matures faster then guys thing, I think it depends on the person in general, I don't know many if any girls my age that are say, or were more Mature then me.Me and my few friends that didn't abandon our friendship have always been just as mature as any girl in body and mind.I'm not trying to be, I'm a guy and I find it bs a girl Matures faster then us, I just haven't see any proof of this. of course I hit puberty at like 7 .>Of course then again me and teh few of my friends are quite abit taller/bigger then most kidz our age. well... back then anyway, people are finally catching up to us.I was 5'8 with a basically adult build body when I was 11 .> and still growing.As for 13, I personally have NO Idea why everyone looks forward to this age =/ nothing exciting happened when I was 13. All it did was, I no longer had to lie about my age to get into certain sites.Calling a Woman a girl doesn't have anything to do with age its prefference some just perfer to say different things unless adressed not too.Example, I use to call my girlfriend "Dude" because that was just one of those words I called everybody, but she didn't like it because dude is another word for man guy whatever, so I stopped calling her that.Like I said its preference. so guys like being called guys over man or boy, some don't some girls like being called girls over woman, its all prefference, nothing to do with age or immaturity

Meh Religion has always gotten in the way of me and my friends.I just study certain things in the bible because I get tired of being told if I do this I will go to hell blah blah its always nice to use the bible against them, though I am probably evil for that too?

yea, I dont need a book written thousands of years ago to tell me whats right and wrong, i am perfectly able to make that distingction on my own, steak, good, killing my neighbor, bad, see isnt it easy?

for me it doesnt depend much on age at all, of course an 8 year old will be less likely to, but for me its the choices they make and how they grow or waiver from them, whether it be boy or girl