(This was originally a reply in another thread, but it was suggested that I should make it into its own post)
The crime rate and chance of committing crimes, even, if not especially, violent and sexual ones, peaks in teens and early 20s and then consistently declines with age. Statistically speaking, teens and young adults are a bigger threat to just about every other age group than vice versa based on this alone, and especially so to 40+-year-olds who are already seriously lacking physically compared to them.
Any hypothetical alien observer, if shown these data, would likely conclude that humans organize their societies to focus on protecting older people from violent teens and young adults, but instead, it's the opposite because it's not about who is a threa to whom, but who looks like the threat (ie, uglier and more disgusting). Teens and young adults are young and on average more attractive than people older than them, so, case closed as far as the person on the street is concerned, that means that they need protection from the ugly older guys.
The funny thing is, people often try to justify it by saying that they are just wary of "power inequalities" and that older people are often richer than young people... but somehow, that never translates into them being against such unequal relationships themselves. In fact, people often seem to encourage teens to hang out with their peers from much wealthier backgrounds. As if there was some magical mental block that prevented a rich 14-year-old from taking advantage of some underprivileged girl in the exact same way a 40-year-guy with the exact same amount of wealth as the 14-year-old could
. No less curiously, it likewise never creeps into worrying about relationships between other categories that often drastically differ in average wealth and income, like race, ethnicities, fucking addresses/ZIP codes. It's only ever age that gets people going all crazy and dramatic.
Going back from relationships to just general interactions, we know for example that in the context of street harassment, women fear significantly older harassers even more than unattractive ones, while they tend to enjoy harassment from attractive guys (props to @Oneitiscel for making probably the most extensive thread about that iconic 2010 study).
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That's how it works in all other social contexts as well. Older and uglier = evil, dangerous and threatening to people, and that's simply how it is. I've mentioned above that teenagers' higher criminality also extends to sexual crimes, and that's especially so against minors. Peer-perpetrated sexual abuse of minors might be even more common than the adult variant according to some sources I've seen, but nobody cares about that or even thinks about it. According to this 2012 data, which is one of the few I could find on the topic, the most common age of a person accussed of sexual offences against a child in Canada was 13 for example.
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Meanwhile, it receives zero attention because there's no non-neotenous balding guys in their late 20s and older who could be blamed, like society is already primed to expect.
The crime rate and chance of committing crimes, even, if not especially, violent and sexual ones, peaks in teens and early 20s and then consistently declines with age. Statistically speaking, teens and young adults are a bigger threat to just about every other age group than vice versa based on this alone, and especially so to 40+-year-olds who are already seriously lacking physically compared to them.
Any hypothetical alien observer, if shown these data, would likely conclude that humans organize their societies to focus on protecting older people from violent teens and young adults, but instead, it's the opposite because it's not about who is a threa to whom, but who looks like the threat (ie, uglier and more disgusting). Teens and young adults are young and on average more attractive than people older than them, so, case closed as far as the person on the street is concerned, that means that they need protection from the ugly older guys.
The funny thing is, people often try to justify it by saying that they are just wary of "power inequalities" and that older people are often richer than young people... but somehow, that never translates into them being against such unequal relationships themselves. In fact, people often seem to encourage teens to hang out with their peers from much wealthier backgrounds. As if there was some magical mental block that prevented a rich 14-year-old from taking advantage of some underprivileged girl in the exact same way a 40-year-guy with the exact same amount of wealth as the 14-year-old could
. No less curiously, it likewise never creeps into worrying about relationships between other categories that often drastically differ in average wealth and income, like race, ethnicities, fucking addresses/ZIP codes. It's only ever age that gets people going all crazy and dramatic.Going back from relationships to just general interactions, we know for example that in the context of street harassment, women fear significantly older harassers even more than unattractive ones, while they tend to enjoy harassment from attractive guys (props to @Oneitiscel for making probably the most extensive thread about that iconic 2010 study).
Sexual harassment instigated by attractive men is potentially enjoyable to woman, according to a 2010 research article published by Springer Science
Very extensive study with numerous sources. I will highlight the most notable & important parts. Draw your own conclusions. Fairchild (2010) conducted an online survey on perceptions of sexual harassment (possibly as far as sexual assault) incidents of (N = 1,277) relatively young (mean age...
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That's how it works in all other social contexts as well. Older and uglier = evil, dangerous and threatening to people, and that's simply how it is. I've mentioned above that teenagers' higher criminality also extends to sexual crimes, and that's especially so against minors. Peer-perpetrated sexual abuse of minors might be even more common than the adult variant according to some sources I've seen, but nobody cares about that or even thinks about it. According to this 2012 data, which is one of the few I could find on the topic, the most common age of a person accussed of sexual offences against a child in Canada was 13 for example
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(2012 Canadian police data) Children aged 12 to 15 were behind almost 40% of sexual offences against children aged four to six years
Bruh:feelsUnreal::giga:. I just randomly decided to google this chart from this thread again, just to see if there's more info: https://incels.is/threads/persons-accused-of-sexual-offences-against-children-and-youth-by-age-of-accused-canada-2012-rate-per-100-000-population.639339/ And right...
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Meanwhile, it receives zero attention because there's no non-neotenous balding guys in their late 20s and older who could be blamed, like society is already primed to expect.
