The 21-year-old drinking age had widespread and extremely negative consequences that have nothing at all to do with alcohol.
It effectively shifted the American age of adulthood forward 3 full years.
With effects on marriage, work, travel, everything. https://t.co/UdI8DYs2FT
— Adam Van Buskirk (@AHVanBuskirk) May 4, 2025
Wow, all of that has gotten so much worse. I rented a hotel room back in the 90s as a sixteen-year-old in Orlando, Florida. A decent one too. My friends and I were going to see Tori Amos and didn’t want to drive back in the middle of the night.
It looks like that’d be totally impossible now even as a twenty-year-old. Which is fucking insane. But I guess that goes hand in hand with the insistence by many “feminists” that women are children until they are 35 or 40. Different aspects of the same terrible trend.