The way I’m starting to piece it together, kids are

sensitive to aesthetics

Without good role models, feral like we were just bouncing off experiences learning as we went, they mimic patterns.

We digested a specific pattern of beauty in the media from an early age and that’s what we then valued, competed for.

It took

correcting from life

to mellow out that asshattery.

I guess that’s one explanation

I know we’re not as judgmental anymore

yeah because we’re older, everyone knows your appetite broadens with age

This is how you end up dating 6th graders.
 

gotta be this tall to ride, ask for that ID

So gamifying the sexual experience?

Racking up points for youngest and hottest levels passed? I don’t think love works like that.

I’d like to think these days we believe in sincere connections that leave people better off than how we found them.

look dude, from what I can tell there’s a crisis of a lack of good orgasms in the world. there’s sex and then there’s love

We were lucky to get both the first time though, right?