<br />What happens when you juxtapose two unrelated internet freak outs?<br /><br />Why does the internet vociferously demand that everyone acknowledge that a 19-year-old is a child, then just a few weeks later, with the same fervent energy claim that an 18-year-old is a full grown adult? <br /><br />The words child and adult mean whatever we need them to at any given moment in order to justify our hating on whatever our target is that particular day. <br /><br />Nobody is worried that Miss Shelbia is a child soldier? but we're all furious that she's a successful model? <br /><br />American attitudes toward teenagers are not only atrociously hypocritical they're also irrational and destructive as hell. <br />
