• Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
        919·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah, I’d say so. At 22 the human brain isn’t even fully developed. Tim and his wife are children acting out some theatrics inculcated by their (almost always) religious community. Then again, I live in an American state that embraces education and critical thinking, so my assumption is ol Tim is from Utah, or some other regressive theocratic place where they’d rather nip autonomy in the bud and tether young people to a prescribed way of life that hasn’t otherwise existed outside of these antideluvian pockets for the last 70 years.

        But I’m probably reading too much into it.

        • relic_@lemm.ee
          133·
          3 hours ago

          This reads like a 16 year old posting a pseudo intellectual argument so they can feel smart.

        • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 hours ago

          People throughout history have been married way younger.

          It’s only a very recent phenomenon in 90% of the world that people don’t get married by 22. Even go back to the 80s and 90s which weren’t that long ago - getting married under 25 was exceptionally common

          • RBWells@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 hours ago

            I used to think the women of the past were all married young or spinsters, from reading little house on the prairie and other books. But looked up my ancestors on that Mormon website and was surprised to find that most were 28, 29. Even going pretty far back. This was mostly the US (and this area before unification) and southern Europe though, don’t know that it can be extrapolated. I just didn’t expect it.

            • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 hours ago

              Even then would be pretty recent considering human history, and I have a feeling that like you said that’s very narrowed down through both region and religion.

              Though funnily enough I grew up (middle school and high school) with kids from 2 different Mormon families as two of my closest friends, and knew kids from 2 others. Each of those 4 families had a minimum of 5 kids, and each one of those kids as far as I know, both guys and girls, got married by 23.

              But it was normal in Europe to be betrothed as young as 5, and married at 12 or 13 for centuries.

              If you go to the east, Akbar the Great was married off at 9.

              • RBWells@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Yeah but I think “marriage” like that was a lot different from what we consider it to be now. More of a way to link families, not love matches or even “teams” on their own. Like it wasn’t for them, they were resources parents traded around in marriages and also fosterings, right?

        • festnt@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          4 hours ago

          this sounds kind of… completely crazy to be honest

          also, isn’t the human brain fully developed in most people by the age of 21? or it’s 25, i dont remember. but even if it is 25, 22 is really close. i see no problem in marrying at that age

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
    483·
    8 hours ago

    Is it weird that the most unrelatable thing here for me is that SongeBob existed when anon was in high school?

    Edit: a word

        • expr
          4·
          3 hours ago

          SpongeBob first aired in 1999, so if you were born '81 or later, it was probably on when you were in high school. But yeah if you’re in your mid-late 40s you would have just missed it.

        • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
          10·
          5 hours ago

          Hmmm with this we can deduce that SpongeBob was created sometime after 40 year olds went to highschool but before 30 year olds went to highschool 🤔

        • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
          81·
          7 hours ago

          And you think it’s weird that people under 40 are on the internet? I’m almost 30 and SpongeBob has been on since I was in daipers

          • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            I mean from what I’ve seen people under 25 are barely “on” the internet, more like floating through the internet, absorbing content by osmosis.

    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      1999 grandpa. Anyone born after 1981 will have had the option of SpongeBob. That having been said it wasn’t until the mid to late 2010s that I remember seeing grown ass adults obsessed with, and spouting lines from, a children’s cartoon from 1999. So mostly 90s kids.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      6 hours ago

      I was in my countries equivalent in the late '00s and early '10s, and it … really wasn’t. So I’d say that’s rather time and place dependent.

      • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        That’s fair I graduated in 06 on a military base in England. Partly why it was so fun cause the faculty had no clue what to do with me.

    • odium
      14·
      6 hours ago

      If you don’t mind me asking, when were you in high school?

      I was in high school in the late 2010s, in a red county in a red state, and there were a few openly queer ppl in my grade who were never bullied throughout high school.

      I think it was because allies outnumbered the homophobes/transphobes and bullies only punch down, not up.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        16·
        7 hours ago

        I was in high school in the late 00s early 10s and I remember guys in the locker room talking about how they’d murder a trans woman if one “tricked them”. Around that point the only reason I didn’t realize I was a trans woman was that I really didn’t want to realize it.