Women generally stop maturing mentally and emotionally in adolescence, so yeah, kinda. But the implications of eternal children in adult bodies who are ruled by their hormones until menopause are too weird and uncomfortable for most people to even think about and rolling feminism back isn't politically feasible right now, so we're stuck with the awkward non-solution of sometimes coddling women like children and sometimes treating them like mature, independent adults.
“She was only 26 years old, she was a child!”
Women generally stop maturing mentally and emotionally in adolescence, so yeah, kinda. But the implications of eternal children in adult bodies who are ruled by their hormones until menopause are too weird and uncomfortable for most people to even think about and rolling feminism back isn't politically feasible right now, so we're stuck with the awkward non-solution of sometimes coddling women like children and sometimes treating them like mature, independent adults.