For a teenager, the consequences of violating my rules are probably as serious as many laws. They care about their access to friends, electronics, finances, autos (etc).
Adulthood is not a fixed time frame
Certainly... but my reply was more along the lines of "my house... my rules". If you're mature enough to live on your own and support yourself, then my influence on the "rules" in your life has dwindled down to whatever respect I've earned throught the quality of prior advice. Prior to that point, my rules do carry weight.
I understand that the shirt is a rebuttal to a list that most fathers of daughters can at least sympathize with... but "I don't make the rules" is off-base, because I do - except to the extend that, like any male, I can't substitute my "yes" for her "no"... and I'd still like to leave in a "rule" that makes clear that if he tries to do so, I'll break more than a "rule". 
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