Talk:Taiyang Xiao Long/@comment-26258854-20200218052023/@comment-4010415-20200218185428

My stance on age gaps is pretty much...

1. Obviously, a grown-ass adult shouldn't be dating someone who's under 18 because that's straightup pedophilia. Of course, an 18-year-old dating a 16-year-old, or a 19-year-old dating a 17-year-old, is different. What I mean by "grown-ass adult" is "full-on entered adulthood", like some 25-year-old creepo trying to get with a 16-year-old and things like that.

2. Age gaps matter less and less the older you get, but it still matters to me when the younger party has only just recently entered adulthood. This is because older adults, such as those in their 30s and 40s, have more life experience and more developed minds than a 20-year-old, and many people of advanced age who try to get with someone who's in the early stages of adulthood tend to be doing so for predatory reasons. Someone who has only just crossed the threshold into adulthood is easier to manipulate and mold into the perfect doll to call a "partner", and that's why older predatory people go after someone who's so young.

Obviously, we all know Tai wouldn't do this, but that age gap of ~20 years still makes the relationship rather inequal due to Cinder's youth.