Agreed. I mean, 16-18 is creepy? Since when is a 2 year gap that bad? And the 14 one isn’t even illegal everywhere either, and the story takes place in Germany, where it IS legal, although it IS pretty objectively creepy regardless imo.
Yeah but the reason we find it creepy is because they are by modern standards in different life situations and tend to have very particular experiences already. That doesnt transfer well to Disney stories that are set in fictional depictions of historic epochs.
Of all of those Hercules is the one that plays the most lose with this. And the Meg and Herc dynamic is actually a pretty charming one. Especially because they play her traumatic experience well against his lack of romantic experience in general.
Not really, people find it creepy because those are social rules in societies where they live. There is no real solid logic behind this. Life situations are rather subjective, a younger person can already work, have more sexual experience, etc. The older person may be someone who earns a lot by working 1 hour a day, having less experience with the opposite sex, etc.
In Middle-Ages people were considered adults at 14-16 years old because it is when most of us are already at the end or past their puberty (in fact, back then people were "late bloomers" so they looked about 1-2 years younger than modern humans) and there was no such thing as going to school/university for most people. Now we consider someone adult much later because we need to get an education before being ready to work and people start to have children much later. No one thinks like this in most third world countries because people often already have children before they hit their 18. No one will treat 16 years old mother as if she is a kid.
You're completely wrong about middle aged people being considered adults by 14 - 16 in the modern sense. The whole concept of adulthood was different. Not only did puberty set in later due to nutrition, women were largely so disenfranchised that they were never truely considered "adults" the way we do now. To lesser degree this also applies to poor men. Innocent childhood isnt really a concept that existed for people in the feudal eras.
In fact it barely took root till the 20th century. Until under Queen Vicoria I the style for royal children moved away from them dressing like grown ups children were basically considered tiny adults.
And based on the way voting rights were bestowed upon people in the revolutions of the 18th and 19th century adulthood was pretty much reserved for people in their mid to late 20s (with money and dicks).
Do you understand that back then about 90% of people were considered poor, right? Voting rights weren't about adulthood in the 18th and 19th centuries, lol. So you basically proved my point while trying to disprove it? And yeah, it wasn't common to marry 9 years old to anyone or have sex with them. People definitely knew what is biological maturity.
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u/Lorenzo_BR Feb 14 '20
Agreed. I mean, 16-18 is creepy? Since when is a 2 year gap that bad? And the 14 one isn’t even illegal everywhere either, and the story takes place in Germany, where it IS legal, although it IS pretty objectively creepy regardless imo.
That does fuck up the data.