What Does It Take to Rebel in 2023?

Tradition is the new rebellion. ‘Oh, We’re Halfway There’

Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things, and Jake Bongiovi got engaged. She is 19, he is 20. This is apparently shocking, or a scandal or something.

If Millie Bobby Brown had declared herself to be transgender, gotten injected with testosterone and underwent a double mastectomy, she would have been applauded for her (or “his”) courageous choices. But getting engaged? To marry a man? Well, this is not just unfashionable, it’s practically unthinkable, at least in the minds of the “reformers.”

So what life decisions you are able to make depends completely on their acceptability to the Left. Check.

Here is the history lesson:

During the 1950s, the median age at first marriage for women in the United States was 20.3 years, which is to say that nearly half of weddings involved teenage brides. Such was life in the Golden Age of middle-class America, when Dwight Eisenhower was president. You would probably risk a United Nations human rights investigation if you advocated a return to the 1950s status quo ante, what with all the propaganda directed toward denouncing “child brides” (by which they mean any girl marrying before age 18). This is why Millie Bobby Brown’s engagement at 19 was “controversial,” as if she were a helpless child in a Third World village being bartered off by a tribal leader in some kind of primitive exchange where the father of the bride gets a herd of goats.

Oh, and click thru for a musical interlude from Jake's old man, Livin' on a Prayer.