I think at least some people are seeing "He finally grew up" as being implied. Which leads to the offensive.
Maybe *I'm* making too many inferences, but my mind is taking it and producing "He got rid of important parts of his past after getting/in order to get a girlfriend." (I can come up with several reasons to keep around one's old toys as an adult, including with the idea of passing them down to one's future offspring. But if someone is keeping them around directly for themself, I read that as them having some more direct personal significance.)
That isn't so much offensive as kind of creepy.
-Morgan.
Maybe *I'm* making too many inferences, but my mind is taking it and producing "He got rid of important parts of his past after getting/in order to get a girlfriend." (I can come up with several reasons to keep around one's old toys as an adult, including with the idea of passing them down to one's future offspring. But if someone is keeping them around directly for themself, I read that as them having some more direct personal significance.)
That isn't so much offensive as kind of creepy.
-Morgan.