Has anyone else noticed this really weird infantilization thing going on among young adults lately? You have people in their 20s acting like they’re still 9 years old and it’s weird for anyone 2-4 years older to even speak to them.
Maybe it’s because I’m about to be 30 myself, but why does it seem like people are being trained to assume that adults older than 30 are predators in wait?
I mean, “wanting to be their friends” could totally be seen as an attempt to be more than friends, but actually being friends with a younger adult happens especially when said younger person feels like their peers are kiddish
I’m open to be challenged on this, but it seems to me that age gap only applies to sex and romance because we live in societies where exploitation was built into these modes of relationship for private property reasons, while friendship was never about private property