Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-5471249-20160414202751

I'm sorry, but those cannot be considered good counterarguments - 1) Sure, boys do mature slower than girls, but not all teenage guys are idiotic (as a girl myself, I guarantee that that's just a wrong stereotype), just like not all teenage girls are intelligent! The maturity difference is usually represented only by most teenage guys' inability to plan their future, or be as emotionally perceptive as teenage girls.  Heck, I've come across a lot of really intelligent teenage guys in high school (2 of whom I dated), with them being smarter than some of my fellow teenage girls! As for Tyson... Sure, I definitely do understand Annabeth's reasoning, since it was a bloodthirsty Cyclops that was responsible for the death of her close friend Thalia, but that simply isn't a good enough excuse for her descriminatory actions in this case. Why? Well, because Tyson himself had absolutely nothing to do with Thalia's death; just earlier that very same day, Tyson selflessly risked his life to save Percy from Leastrigones several times, and Tyson was nothing but polite and adorable when intriduced to Annabeth, yet she still approaches him with narrow-minded nasty descrimination, which is absolutely unfair to him! If I were her, I definitely wouldn't have trusted Tyson from the get-go, but I most certainly wouldn't be that unfairly nasty to him!