Honorifics for laymen and women are a becoming obsolete. Gee, even my nieces and nephews call me by my first name.
But in the media, is an 18 year old teenager really worthy of the title Mister?
I've always been bemused by it. The reference usually crops up in relation to a some idiotic act, or crime.
An incident say, involving a 16 year old boy and two 18-year-old boys. Instead of saying "Three teenagers escaped with their lives after a prank backfired".... we get "Two men and a teenage boy escaped..."
Ascribing the title "mister" to an 18 or 19 year old kid still extremely wet behind the ears seems a misnomer. And it happened probably because of the lowering of the voting age, not because maturity started to come earlier in life.
Is a member of the crop of post millennial generation worthy of the title?
But in the media, is an 18 year old teenager really worthy of the title Mister?
I've always been bemused by it. The reference usually crops up in relation to a some idiotic act, or crime.
An incident say, involving a 16 year old boy and two 18-year-old boys. Instead of saying "Three teenagers escaped with their lives after a prank backfired".... we get "Two men and a teenage boy escaped..."
Ascribing the title "mister" to an 18 or 19 year old kid still extremely wet behind the ears seems a misnomer. And it happened probably because of the lowering of the voting age, not because maturity started to come earlier in life.
Is a member of the crop of post millennial generation worthy of the title?

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