Sparkly – This is the first time you’re mentioning degrees. In your first post, you wrote about working. What are you trying to say now – that if someone is going for a degree, he’s not a man until he starts working? Or do you mean that as soon as he starts his degree, he’s a man?
Either way, I would have a problem with that definition. If you say that he has to be finished his degree before he can be considered a man, what about a guy who is going to Med school and won’t be finished for a long time? And if a guy who is going for a degree is a man, that would mean that every immature 17 or 18 year old guy in college is a man!