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22hr ago
Would you still find the fourth point bad if the resulting mask-off mandate were primarily used against your tribe - say, retroactive dragnet identification of the Jan 6th protesters from photos, or police demanding that any future garden-variety right-wing protester unmask while being fully aware that the leftists are already standing by with cameras to feed a well-oiled machine of crowdsourced doxxers ready to send form letters to his bank and employer?
This sort of thing has been a long-standing concern of lefties dating back to when they had a more credible claim that institutional power is aligned against them. The way I see it, the right wing, in its knee-jerk opposition to masks and affinity towards police powers, is interrupting the left in the midst of making a rare mistake borne of their denial that they are in charge. The train of a sympathetic police getting to use this to unmask and prosecute someone like BLM rioters has long left.
I don't think the complaint is fully general with respect to measures that help with policing. Police are already capable of physically arresting people in the midst of rioting or other illegal acts (at the cost of public scrutiny), regardless of whether they are masked. Forcing everyone to be unmasked during protests will help police prosecuting illegal and broadly disliked acts a little, in those cases where they are too overwhelmed to catch individuals in flagranti; it will help them a bit more in situations where they want to avoid public scrutiny, so rather than visibly arresting people for political crimes they can quietly come after them later; and it helps with extrajudicial punishment such as cancellation and debanking, where the punishers have no right to perform a physical arrest, a lot.
In concrete terms, for example, I would have been quite happy to turn up to a masked protest against excessive COVID measures (not that such a deliciously ironic event was on offer anywhere I lived). I would not go to one if I were compelled to show my face, since I'm in a line of work where an easily identifiable photo in that context could be career-ending.
I have seen plenty of instances of this happening with badminton and to a lesser degree frisbee, and that's probably not a modern aberration.
The most obvious explanation is that, due to widely discussed gender differences in attitudes to open competition, sports that are essentially about putting a number on your relative skill level - counting goals etc. - are the ones that are less popular with women. Badminton certainly stands apart from sports like football in that play without explicit scoring is quite normalised (and implicit scoring like subtle social censure for those who disproportionately interrupt the flow of play is more in lines with covert competition preferences).
In that sense, I think "sports" is a misleading descriptor for what it is that there is a gendered difference in preferences for; and at least some of the cognitive dissonance surrounding this problem domain must be attributed to the core demographic of male sports players. Reality looks something like men play certain sports because they have a biological need to quantify their exact rank relative to other men, and women don't because that's not how they organise their status hierarchy and have nothing to gain from trying to insert themselves directly into the men's ranking. The social fiction instead says that men play those sports because something to do with sportsmanship, camraderie and cultivating the beauty and strength the human body is capable of, while women are turned away because men gatekeep these universally good things from them. If you rewrite the last fragment to say something that amounts to "out of their own lack of interest in these things, because there is actually no sexist gatekeeping", you have to conclude that women are moral mutants who do not care for sportsmanship, camraderie, cultivation and beauty, but this is only because you left the other half of the lie unchallenged.
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3hr ago
The pop-cultural use of "cuck" seems to long have come detached from reproduction, to generally denote someone who would surrender what he cares for the most without a fight and perhaps derive masochistic pleasure from the process. (The accusation of being a "cuckservative" would not be dispelled by a credible claim that it helped the cuckservative get a liberal chick to bear his kids.)
The implication that the terminal value of incels with whom the copypasta resonates must be themselves getting laid, or at most getting laid vicariously through a hypothetical son who is just like them, rather than the preservation of their lineage, seems to check out against stereotypes too - at least to me the idea of a typical incel whose primary lament is that he will not be able to satisfy his parents' wish for a grandchild feels somewhat incongruous.
The cutesy Kansai goofball overdub is so incongruous with your appearance (and my mental image of your character) that the effect is really quite strange. Was this a common persona for video ads in Japan at the time or should I parse this as a light instance of minstrelry (as in this is how they figured a middle-aged Westerner would act)?
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1hr ago
The participants depicted in the pictures and videos here look pretty gender-balanced to me, and my FB feed seems to have one person each being virulently pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, both male and getting maybe 2-3 likes per post. Are you sure your view doesn't just reflect the demographics of college activists?
As a somewhat related observation, I moved to Europe with my SO from the US a few years ago, and the single biggest culture shock experience for her was when we ran across a massive anti-COVID-measures protest and the participants were mostly women. I remember at the time this forum would also have periodic posts that it is only natural that women are the ones pushing for masks and vaccines because of conformism, risk aversion, valuing care over freedom and being for social pressure; however, it turns out that almost always random contingencies override grand theories of how and why the genders believe what, usually formed deep in the bowels of a single cultural bubble.
Then make it a taser or something. I would've thought firearm sentiment to be more who/whom - not that this is actually realistically going to be championed by anyone, but would a "guns for women only" policy be instinctively opposed by most blue tribers?
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