A Meltdown, Confusion, and Child Soldiers... also some fashion models

What happens when you juxtapose two unrelated internet freak outs?

Why does the internet vociferously demand that everyone acknowledge that a 19-year-old is a child, then just a few weeks later, with the same fervent energy claim that an 18-year-old is a full grown adult?

The words child and adult mean whatever we need them to at any given moment in order to justify our hating on whatever our target is that particular day.

Nobody is worried that Miss Shelbia is a child soldier? but we're all furious that she's a successful model?

American attitudes toward teenagers are not only atrociously hypocritical they're also irrational and destructive as hell.