"Dudes like indie movies so much they'll date A24 year old, lol!" (hexbear.net)

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So, an adult?

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[-] 389aaa@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago

Thank you for typing this all up, it makes me feel like I'm losing it how nobody seems to be bothered with this at all.

I'm newly in the same age range and it's baffling to me how the 'real adult' cultural age marker seems to be a target that's constantly just out of reach. I'm honestly concerned people will start thinking anyone below 30 is a child and should thereby have no rights, at this point.

[-] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

is a child and should thereby have no rights

Most ppl refuse to acknowledge that the fact the vast majority of children dont rly have rights or agency in their lives is already massively fucked up, and will only recognize it as such when an adult is treated the way kids are

(We dont mean kids should date adults obvsly, we wouldnt bother w this stupid disclaimer normally but since the post itself is abt dating in this case we wanna make that clear)

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

I'm honestly concerned that people will start thinking anyone below 40 is a child who doesn't deserve rights!

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago

Indigenous peoples and minorities of all ages have been infantikized and denied agency and rights, so the playbook seems very similar to me. In general, I believe the goal (or the trend, rather) is to deny agency to anyone who doesn't belong to the owner class, so their lives can be controlled economically and with violence, like many children's are.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Absolutely, absolutely. Very important addition!

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

I could legit see boomer establishment dems wanting to raise the voting age to 40 or 50

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

Making 35 year olds old enough to run for president while also being too young to vote for president would be a very good bit.

[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

It’s the most extreme example but you need to be 35 to run for president, when I’d trust a random 25 year old over a random 75 year old any day of the week

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I CAN NAME AT LEAST ONE 27 YEAR OLD WHO I KNOW WOULD MAKE A GOOD LEADER OF HIS COUNTRY………

February 1970 photo of Muammar Gaddafi in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a few months after the 1969 Libyan revolution. He would've been around 27 or 28 at the time.