>>2564962yeah that's true but you gotta consider context.
22 = drinking age, maybe already graduated college, maybe already has a bachelor's degree, maybe already did tours of duty in the military.
16 = still lives with parents, still in high school, can't drink, can't serve in the military, can't vote, probably drives their parent's car if they drive at all.
You've gotta consider what it looks like to most people when a guy who's 22 and can't make it with his age peers will go after someone who still lives with their parents in the hopes of convincing them to be a domestic partner before they're even a legal adult, locking them into potentially a bunch of shit they're not ready for mentally.
Now historically, yes it was "normal" for things to be like this but people challenged that being the norm for a reason.
Please do not extrapolate anything from this post that wasn't explicitly stated.