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24 is the youngest I could consider as an actual adult. Even then I don’t think most people remove their heads from their butts until 26-28 or so
Eh, I was young but when I was 23 I knew what I was doing when it came to sex. I hooked up with older people and knew what I was getting into.
30 year old dudes hitting on 19 year olds are fucking creeps though.
There's also a sea of difference between making mistakes and dating the wrong people, and being predated upon. Saying "people in their 20s should not date older people because they're children" does nothing to address the issue that could be better solved by teaching people to recognize uneven power dynamics relationships, because those can exist even between people of the same age. Anything else is Puritan generalization.
People jump to calling things puritanical but I don't think the concern here represents puritanical values at all, which are more inclined to view very young women as effectively a prime commodity for marriage arrangements or whatever.
Sexually sure I think 23 is not in the noncezone but dating a person going through the reckoning that is the early 20s while I’m past that sounds so exhausting.
(I don’t know what I’m talking about I’ve never seriously dated anyone more than a year younger/older than me)
"Oh, man; do you remember being in school when the Challenger shuttle blew up? ...You weren't born yet? ...You don't know what a space shuttle is?"
People who were in elementary school when Challenger blew up are now in their late 40s
Real talk, what was the defining "innocence-shattering news event" for Gen Z and younger? For my generation (Millennials) it was definitely
covid
I have to agree, being Gen Z myself. COVID was a complete killer in both my and a lot of my compatriots faith in humanity.
in addition to that, it was just a massive disruption of day-to-day life and it quite evidently resulted in people becoming more anti-social and feral to each other. There was a massive, widespread psychological change in society
It's going to depend on the country, but for me it was probably the 2011 Norway attacks.
Sandy Hook maybe
besides covid, trump getting elected. gen z were a bunch of kids who grew up under obama, and right as they enter adulthood, surprise, you live in a nazi country
Election of Trump?
Seeing MAGA shamans doing the wolololo outside of election officials' offices would be enough to fuck anyone up if they understood what a MAGA shaman or wolololo was
For GenAlpha, it was probably more getting groomed on Roblox and then holding a dying classmate as they bled out during their second or third school shooting ten seconds after COVID lockdown was lifted
For me it was the attacks on Gaza in 2014