The article says, "Adulthood means taking on more responsibilities, and in turn, receiving more privileges" and this begs the question in regard to, from whom?

The article says, "Adulthood means taking on more responsibilities, and in turn, receiving more privileges" and this begs the question in regard to, from whom? The notion of "adult," has an intrinsic inferiority in the sense it's from the perspective of what children and dependents believe about men and woman relative to themselves. It's an important distinction, because if you see adults as others and can't admit to yourself that you are a man or a woman, it's likely because on some level you still identify as a dependent - if not in a specific relationship, then to society at large. (Arguably, some even moralize it where to be an adult is to submit to being a dependent of society.) Acting as an adult is something one does for the reflected approval of others, and it is relative to the perspective and aspirations of children. Discomfort from talking about men and women directly is indicative of how disconnected we are from our true and natural identities. (If you believe nothing is true or natural and take Derrida's view that everything is an artifact of language, I'd ask if you've thought about what made choosing that belief so appealing.) Adulthood itself is a concept that is the actualization of personhood - an abstraction that includes corporations, higher primates, zygotes, and imminently some lines code. Imo, adulthood is unappealing because it has become poor substitute for concepts of manhood and womanhood. By including these non-human entities, personhood itself is a diminished and low bar. The common insult I see in public discourse is that a man is a baby or a child, and the person wielding it truly believes these words are powerful. The insult is lobbed as though the implicitly maternal lens of criticism and shaming someone as a baby has meaning to actualized men and women. Actualized men and women by definition have developed an internal locus of control, and a level of self acceptance and awareness where criticism from a rando saying they are being a bad dependent doesn't even register. When you pull it apart, what adulthood means to most people is the ability to internalize supervision and the values of a broadly social supervisor. What's worse is that this kind of transactional adulthood yields some truly psychotic moral licensing in the form of, "I've taken all the humiliations and done what was expected of me, and now it's my turn." And you can still be a good person when you act on this belief, because compared to a corporation or a primate, you're still doing pretty well. In this sense, "we" don't need to do anything about adulthood. "You" and "I" need to take responsibility for ourselves first, and then for children and other dependents, then by becoming good men and women we become our brother's and sister's keepers. This is all to say, the framing of adulthood is part of the problem. When someone occasionally admonishes me to be "an adult," I typically respond, "thanks, I'm a man," and the people who get it, get it, and the ones who don't, I just don't remember.