My wife, when she was in college and under 21, could go to the bar with her mom with no problem. Moms/dad's/parents weekends at school were nuts at the bars for this reason
It's a well trod conservative trope that it is they who are the oppressed and not the oppressors. It's so ingrained in their thoughts from the Evangelical core of their religious beliefs to the contradictory political thoughts in their heads.