Everything about girls is scrutinized so highly and boys don't get that same treatment. Boys are like, “Yeah, girls will still date me if my room is nasty.”

If the floor mattress is the symbol of an austere (if fulfilling) life, the Boy Room is the product of a more indulgent lifestyle, one that produces a clutter of empty beer cans, crumpled tissues (overflowing a rarely emptied wastebasket), and bunched-up bedsheets.