2008 Woodie Awards
I'm an adult: are you?
Courtney Myrick
Issue date: 6/2/08 Section: Opinion
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I am 20-years-old, and I believe that I am coming into adulthood and that I behave accordingly. Unfortunately I cannot say that about a lot of people. I need people to step up and act like responsible adults when it comes to making decisions. Every action has a reaction; therefore, your decisions have consequences that can and may affect the people around you, whether you know it or not.
Call me old fashioned, but I am a firm believer that "age matters." I constantly hear people say that the heart knows no age, or that age is only a number. I think those people are ignorant.
Until statutory rape no longer exists and people stop losing years of their lives in jail for it, then age matters. Why are you 20-year-olds putting yourselves into a relationship with a 15-year-old? Why are you a freshman in college having sex with a freshman in high school? It makes no sense to me.
Okay, so the younger person SEEMS to be mature, but why can't you just find a mature person your own age? You really like picking up your boyfriend/girlfriend from school and getting him/her home by curfew so your "lover" won't get put on punishment? This makes me think that the younger person isn't mature, but that the older person is just immature.
When I graduated from high school, I thought the he-said-she-said crap went out the door, but it seems as if it got worse. One day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine as we were grocery shopping. As I was attempting to decide which cereal I wanted he said, "Ok, I know it is none of my business, but did you have sex with @$#*%@?" The idea of me even looking at that person sexually disgusted me, and I literally gagged. My friend went on to tell me that the guy I supposedly had sex with told a mutual female friend of theirs that I had sex with him.
This seriously annoyed me, so I had to get this cleared. A couple of days later, I held a four-person conference call. First I called my friend who went shopping with me, and then he called the mutual female friend. They told me the story again; then I had them call my alleged "sex buddy" and question him once and for all.
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