It's funny, I actually came across a news article recently about an 18 year old guy who drop kicked a woman from behind and robbed her and it turned out the woman was holding a baby(luckily the baby and the woman were ok). Anyways, the article referred to the attacker as a teen, and someone posted a comment saying how at 18 he's not a teen but a man who can vote and enlist in the army. I replied saying "If this was a story about a 40 year old man dating an 18 year old woman, everyone would be saying 'she's just a kid!'" My reply got 14 thumbs down and only 1 thumbs up. One of the other commenters replied to me saying "And so, what's your point?" In other words, he's saying yeah it's true but there's nothing wrong with that. The reason they are hating on my comment is not because it isn't true, but because I'm suggesting there is something wrong with the double standard.

To sum it up, according to society 18 year olds are old enough to not be shown leniency when they commit crimes, but not old enough to date a 30+ year old and some nujobs will even say 25+.