Anyone else notice how the progressive stack (+ clique/cult behavior) has them encourage teenage brattiness, while being comfortable with prison-like social structures like public/compulsory schooling and state/federal welfare. The next day, they're attacking Republican officials who support alternative schooling and vouchers, or easing child labor laws. These policies make it ever slightly easier for a minor to emancipate, and likelier to make responsible life decisions.

Deep down Leftists crave hierarchical authority, so long as it's the anti-familial, centralized, top-down variety. Similarly, they obsess about binary gender roles more than 95% of of lib-lefts/centrists/righties/apoliticals; doubling down on sex/gender over truly rejecting it. That would require not being a whore for attention and validation.