“You’re so mature for your age” is what predatorial adults often say to traumatised teens with self esteem issues to make them feel special and manipulate them into their control.
In the panel they use it to push her to drink, presumably to lower her resistance to whatever they have in mind for later.
As another poster pointed out, the mature for your age part automatically makes the people offering more drinks older people who go after younger women, which is abundant in many places. I was recently discussing this with someone who has been through this when she went back to her home country of St Vincent (while I have Vincentian heritage and lived there from 2-7, I was born in the US and lived the rest of my life here).
Anyway, she says it’s almost expected down there for younger girls and older men to get together, and some people hit on her because she (at around age 21) looked young enough to be in high school. When she told them she was older, they told her excitedly that she’d be even more popular because she’d be legal despite looking young.
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What is happening in the bottom left panel?
“You’re so mature for your age” is what predatorial adults often say to traumatised teens with self esteem issues to make them feel special and manipulate them into their control. In the panel they use it to push her to drink, presumably to lower her resistance to whatever they have in mind for later.
Probably a high school party.
As another poster pointed out, the mature for your age part automatically makes the people offering more drinks older people who go after younger women, which is abundant in many places. I was recently discussing this with someone who has been through this when she went back to her home country of St Vincent (while I have Vincentian heritage and lived there from 2-7, I was born in the US and lived the rest of my life here).
Anyway, she says it’s almost expected down there for younger girls and older men to get together, and some people hit on her because she (at around age 21) looked young enough to be in high school. When she told them she was older, they told her excitedly that she’d be even more popular because she’d be legal despite looking young.