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children? Showing my age here, I guess. Fifty years ago, 18-year-olds in college were referred to as "men" and "women."
by 7402 2mo ago
children?
Showing my age here, I guess. Fifty years ago, 18-year-olds in college were referred to as "men" and "women."
- nobodyandproud 2mo agoYou must've heard the viral claims that the brain doesn't fully develop until 26? Nevermind that actual findings like https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.h... and https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-developing-at-25-heres-what-actually-happens/ https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-... say something completely different. Though auto-insurance claims do show some truth to late teens and early twenties drivers being...not mentally ready.
- wredcoll 2mo ago50 years ago a lot of people were called a lot of things. As a society we haven't really figured out how to talk about periods of life when there's more than "child" and "adult". It is, of course, simpler and easier to just draw some arbitrary lines and treat everyone the same but I'm unconvinced that simpler and easier is the right metric here.