Reply #26: You're looking at it from a male-centric perspective. There are plenty of

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ways in which men are treated differently than women in our society. For instance, a man who sleeps around is cool, but a woman who does it is a slut. If a grown man buys a frivolous muscle car to race it with his buddies on the weekends, we say boys will be boys... When a man doesn't contribute to the housework and leaves his dirty underwear on the floor, his wife is liable to say he is like having another child to clean up after. And most people will think that's kind of cute. Does that mean men are seen as quasi-adults?