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Hey everyone!
I have been noticing something here on this website, and it's annoying me at an excessive level. How can people be like this?
I just saw a question about how there's a 24 year old woman who wanted to be with a 21 year old man, and the answers are all like "oh your age gap is not a problem"
But when there's a question about a 14 year old girl wanting to be with a 17 year old, the answers say "he's too old for you." -.- Really? It's the same thing! The age gap is the same size, yet people make such a big deal of it when the people are younger. >:(
Why does it have to be this way? Is there a specific reason why people don't think that an age difference matters at an older age, but when it happens with teenagers, people disapprove right away?
Can anyone PLEASE explain to me why? It just doesn't make sense to me. This angers me in ways I can't even understand.
Thank you to everyone who answers in advance, really. (link)
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Basically, one word, SOCIETY. And the laws & philosophy influenced by it. There is no natural age that makes you an adult. 18 being legal was decided on and made up, and can actually change. For example in NY, US, 21 is the legal drinking age. Yet there's countries that have it at 16, and some don't have age restriction. If someone was raised in a place where there were no made up "laws" they'd have no problem with age difference. But when someone is raised in a place with strict laws that are not natural, they're quick to judge, they automatically think "pedophile!" "Rape!" it is indeed unfair and age-ist. But the laws also protect people from being taken advantage of. If there were almost never any pedophiles in the past, and people were more mature, the legal age would be younger than 18. Same with other things, People might say a 13 year old shouldn't drive, but when cars were first made, they probably wouldn't have thought much of it until a law was introduced.
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Rating: 5
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Wow thanks that was the kind of answer I was looking for
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