It's silly to think in such a blanket mindeset.
How it can be creepy to think someone is hot one day, then literally the clock strikes 12, he turns 18, and mere hours later it's okay to think someone's attractive?
Ugh... I mean it's not like the kid's 12 or anything.
Very good, true, and interesting point. (MTV showed his butt already, btw). So you're right there should probably be some perspective here before anyone labels something so quickly. I have seen his show and Ryan is often more mature than his parents or other much older folks around him, they often all say he is the MAN around the house, handling things since his parents divorced and dad moved out. From what I have seen he really is quite a young man with his shit really together as he already has a professional career as a sports professional, product endorsements, etc. He was even meeting with a financial manager last year in season one about purchasing his own house, etc.
There were plenty of pictures of the Olsen twins and others in tons of mainstream magazines flaunting themselves throughout their later youth. Most guys didn't quickly negatively label that to each other at all negatively to each other at all, (many even had openly accepted and positively endorsed countdown calenders to their birthdays). So not seeing that the original response you are addressing in your smart post had a clearly sexist bias would be blind. Again what is accepted more for allegedly 100% str8 guys regarding famous girls isn't always the same for guy about guys. Also, if it were only older women making the comments the would often be considered fun and cute like in the American pie movies and the whole M.I.L.F. thing having the attraction to much younger but in that case older woman and much younger hot boys, before that referred to as Mr. Robinson and all cultural often with the same fun positive labeling in the culture. Thus, it becomes clear that only when it is fear that is admiration from a slightly older male to younger that is quickly labeled so negatively, it becomes clear that such a response involves sexism and homophobia, whether one realizes it at first or not.