Because the term girl is obviously demeaning to post-pubescent females feminists got really mad when you called teenage females girls in the 80s. They were correct.
Ask people who were born in the 60s and 70s who they were dating when they were 16 or 20. My experience is not unique at all. It’s all over pop culture too. Attitudes toward young adults (aka teens) were very different and much healthier back then.
Teenagers are adults, and the general public is extremely bad at judging risk realistically. - This is one area where we have gotten far far worse over the last 50 years. Read Lenore Skenazy’s book “Free-Range Kids” - Everyone’s terrified of phantoms so they’re hovering over their sons and daughters 24/7 and doing real damage.
Let’s look at risk: Germany’s age of consent is 14, but somehow they don’t have a problem. Everything is fine there. In the US where the age of consent is much higher everybody is constantly screaming about how groomers are raping their young people. Hmmmmmm. How is this possible? How did the “protection” backfire? or are Americans just victims of fear-mongering bullshit to the point where they are terrified of non-existent “predators” they believe are lurking around every corner?
The importance of the prefrontal cortex has been WILDLY exaggerated.
The brain is very poorly understood.
and honestly if we really believed any of the pop-science myths about our brains being retarded until we’re 25 we’d never let 20 year olds join the army…
You know we have 20 year olds working as nurses in hospitals responsible for our lives and our health, right?
but you wanna claim that their brains are deficient?
Young women are free to date whoever they want. That is a great thing. Bodily autonomy. It’s something to celebrate.