Quote Originally Posted by JTF-Taru View Post
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The prejudice is strictly appearance-based.

This counts for both fiction and irl cases.

I've personally encountered a number of adult women who look young - like, these women genuinely look like they're in their mid-teens because they boast a petite, short or roundish features - who are treated like children, mistaken for children and have their respective partners be accused of being 'creeps' because their female counterpart doesn't accurately represent their age in a physical sense.

When I was going on post which is a military base, for example, typically kids are allowed access without having to be ID'd. My roommate - who is in her twenties - was told she didn't have to show her ID because she's 'obviously a child' and the guard waved us through.

If you lose the genetic lottery in that sense you get the short end of the stick.