Other than female intrasexual competition (a big part of it), I think a lot of insane “any age gap is evil” crapola you see around is due to the fact that younger millennials and Gen Z really do have different mental ages than older people and generations at the same chronological age.

I saw two places today asserting that 25-year-old women were just “babies” and implying they could not consent to anything. So very fucking oddball.

Anyway, back to my main point. Just observing the behavior and life knowledge of a lot of Gen Z and younger millennial people, many of them truly do seem to be at 25-30 where my generation was mentally at 9-11 years old. That is not all their fault — part of it is due to pervasive helicopter and snowplow parenting, as well as being stunted by social media and excessive internet reliance.

So, all the “Any age gap is rape*” stuff is related to the fact that a Gen Z 26-year-old is about at the same level of maturity as an 11-year-old in 1987 (a Gen X-er). It makes more sense when you think about it in those terms. And I can actually see where they are coming from because too many Gen Z-ers truly are very far behind the maturity of other generations at the same calendar age.

*Somehow, they believe this even if it’s a platonic friendship.

Why are people so quick to label a healthy lifestyle as ‘disordered’ nowadays?

Not sure that veganism is healthy. That said, this inversion of sense has occurred because Fat Acceptance combined with food company propaganda and funding has won the day. Now, refusing to eat like an asshole so that you can avoid coming down with T2 diabetes by 35 is termed an “eating disorder.” Not snarfing three Big Macs per meal means (according to the FA nutters) that you’ll go into “starvation mode” and immediately, magically, unavoidably gain 100 pounds.

Part of it is also, of course, Tall Poppy Syndrome. Anyone who can’t muscle lard an elephant off the sumo mat must be brought down a notch. It’s an unbecoming combination of envy and jealousy that emerges when someone improves themselves. A lot of people then feel it’s their bound duty to take you down a notch.

When you are surrounded by food corp propaganda and people believing things as risible as the Fat Acceptance hogwash (and people who eat hog slop and call it “food”), not being a propaganda victim makes you anomalous. But I’ll go on ahead and continue my “disordered” lifestyle and somehow, mysteriously, I won’t lose my feet to diabetes at 50 and will be fitter than most 25-year-olds then too.

And y’all can do whatever stupid shit you’re gonna do anyway.