It's been the case that when I encounter people with non-normative pronouns they're trans, but you're right that isn't necessarily the case. My mistake!
I know I asked the initial question, but I guess I'm confused what exactly this conversation is about. Is the idea that people are only ever attracted to sixteen year olds because they learned to be? That feels like a challenging thing to demonstrate in the same way it being "in the genes" is, but perhaps I'm being overly reductive.
Nature vs nurture is not an either-or. I'm not saying "it" isn't "in the genes". I'm saying it's not just genes.
There's a wide range of possible age brackets, body types etc across all genders that can manifest traits most people would find attractive. Post-pubescent girls arguably aren't special in that sense. Especially if you don't isolate them out of their real-world context (which is where it stops being Oscar-winning Hollywood cinema and starts being child sexual abuse) that allows objectifying and dehumanizing them as "jailbait".
Where culture comes in is meaning. Taken at face value, a kid is just a kid. But culturally a kid represents something - naivety, hope, innocence, inexperience, whatever. This turns female youth into a fetish - something imbued with additional meaning. It's not actually the literal youthfulness that is culturally attractive in women (or else most people wouldn't react so violently against the idea of people sexually abusing minors), it's what that youthfulness represents. It's a male power fantasy.
Again, power fantasies aren't inherently a problem. What I'm arguing is that this one very much is a problem because it's so normalized it informs real-world social dynamics, i.e. where people start to forget it's a fantasy. Also I would argue the need for this specific fantasy is also not inherent (i.e. maleness does not inherently create a desire for absolute dominance over others). But I've rambled enough as it is.
It's been the case that when I encounter people with non-normative pronouns they're trans, but you're right that isn't necessarily the case. My mistake!
I know I asked the initial question, but I guess I'm confused what exactly this conversation is about. Is the idea that people are only ever attracted to sixteen year olds because they learned to be? That feels like a challenging thing to demonstrate in the same way it being "in the genes" is, but perhaps I'm being overly reductive.