Ruined

You know what gets my goat? (Actually, I don't have a goat, but that's not the point.)

People who complain that this or that "ruined [their] childhood." (This is invariably in the context of something which is a modern take on something that the speaker enjoyed in childhood; as we all know, whether the modern take is good or not, some of the people who enjoyed it as children will hate the modern take with a savagery unparalleled in civilized man. Except by Hitler.)

What the heck is that supposed to mean?

For that matter, how can anything "ruin [their] childhood?" The only way I can think of for someone to "ruin" the childhood of an adult is to get a time machine and steal every ice cream cone they've ever eaten before they eat them (or something similarly ridiculously petty).

And in that context, it makes the related phrase "raped [their] childhood," usually simply used in the exact same way, even worse than it already was, which was pretty bad.

Never say that something ruined your childhood to me. It will ruin my childhood.

-Signing off.