The Mythical Everybody

Anyone with parents knows about the mythical everybody.

"Mom, I want this toy because everybody has it!"
"Do you think everybody talks to their parents that way?!"
"If everybody were jumping off a bridge would you do it too?"

So why is it that the focus of the "everybody" is allowed to change to everyone except the person being compared to them?

When you compared yourself to everybody, it was because everyone had something pretty, or something relevant to you. When your parents said it, it compared you to every drug-addled strumpet to cross the local causeway.
Why though?

Also, why do things that are small taboos as children so much larger as adults?

If as a twelve-year old I would've said I wanted a co-ed sleepover, my mother would've said "wait until your older", and stated something about it making me as a young lady look bad. At nineteen, I ask the same thing, and am met once more with "It makes you look bad".
As I said before, I don't exactly go around parading who I've spent the night with, let alone the depths of the night.

So why then does it matter where or with whom I've spent the night?
The mythical everybody is not waiting outside the person's home waiting to chastise me.
The mythical everybody is not tweeting and face-booking my whereabouts. So unless one of the three people knowing where I am and who I am with decides to throw me to the public like a Puritan adulterer, who's to know that I didn't spend the night in my own bed?

No one.

So take your social stigma, and eat it with a side of cool hwip.*







*Family Guy reference found here