Why do people care so much about boys getting potty-trained or learning how to wipe their butts if it is a KNOWN FACT, not an opinion, that boys are SUPPOSED to take longer to train than girls? You know, I'm not a mom and I've never even been kissed by a male (I'm 24), but if there's one thing I know, it's that boys are SUPPOSED to take longer to train than their female counterparts. So that being said, why would it bother a parent (who can afford the Pull-Ups and all) if a boy wasn't trained until he was 3 or 4 and never did learn to wipe himself very well? Why not just accept the fact that just as girls enter puberty a year or two earlier, they train much younger? I swear, if I had a son (which I probably never will), I would intentionally START training him at 3 or 4 and buy him dark underwear so that it wouldn't matter if he wiped himself enough (since boys can't get infections from not doing so). I would also not care if he wanted to use the restroom outside more often than not because a REAL man doesn't need baby wipes and is not embarrassed to whip it out and pee. I mean, sure, the pretty boys are nice to look at (for both sexes), but it's the "macho slobs" that are building the bridges, fixing the cars, loading the cargo jets, fighting the fires, and defending our country! So why WOULD a parent complain about a boy not wanting to sit on the toilet like a girl and keep his body clean? Why have we, as a society, effeminized little boys to the point where anyone would even care that they almost always train much later than do little girls? Why not just EMBRACE the fact that the very thing that makes them grow-up to be our handymen and protectors is the very thing that also makes them not care if they have a toilet to use or if they're clean? Why not just let the boys be boys and stop comparing them to girls?