I'm also noticing a desire to effectively increase the age of ability to make consent to 30 or so. Fuck that, as someone who remembers being a teenager. Your milk fed veal kids never learned to make any judgment calls because you never let them.
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I vaguely remember seeing some TV recordings of condescending 50-60 somethings calling ~30 year olds youths in the 70s, but damn.
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Eh, in the 70s that actually wasn't the attitude. You were an adult when you moved out, and that could be 16.
Old enough to remember.
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Might have been the 60s. Equally probable since the guys were hippies. But I guess what being an adult means has also changed.
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That e.g. someone my age can tell someone your age to fuck off without risking censure seems a recent invention in most parts of the world.
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oh sure, but that's not about being an adult, that's about respect for age. Different things.
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Mmh, but there's an implied hierarchy of less-more adult there.
Weird to me anyway; Norway has been moving away from that for many generations.
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Adult when I was growing up mean "takes on adult responsibilities". That's all.
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people who are old, are assumed worthy of respect because they have seen/done more than you have. It's about respect due experience.
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Oh, I don't mean I don't understand or see value. Just that the extent to which it's valued in some cultures seems quaint to me