why do so many of them date older men?

Do they?

Or do you somehow disagree that an 18-yo woman isn’t a “functional adult”?

I do, because your brain doesn’t finish maturing until you’re 25.

Meanwhile, men of that exact same age can be forcibly conscripted to fight and die in some foreign oil-war that they never had an opportunity to vote against.

That’s wrong, too. The age of conscription should be 25, for the reason I gave above.