Botond173
4d ago
I'd say the two are necessarily interconnected. Existing social networks need to weaken and dissolve to a degree for the Sexual Revolution to happen, because social controls need to loosen for it to happen.
Botond173
12d ago
There was also a similar though more serious scandal in California back in 1993 around the so-called Spur Posse.
Botond173
16d ago
That's the point. Fried ice does not and can not exist. It's an old Arab proverb, supposedly.
Botond173
16d ago
It's worth pointing out though that I can imagine many mainstream Republicans (not those heavily involved in the Christian Right) would also be more or less sympathetic to Sanger's ideas if they actually checked out what those were.
Botond173
17d ago
I don't know. But that's what I consider plausible by looking at the one relevant historical parallel, Vietnam.
Botond173
18d ago
Yes, it doesn't add up, although the general narrative of the comment is fairly convincing. Simple anthropology tells us that roughly an equal number of boys and girls are born into upper middle class South Korean families. They have the same advantages in life. For every single woman with high expectations, there's a well-paid single man of similar social status.
Botond173
18d ago
There's a graph that circulates on Twitter frequently about how Western youth are supposedly polarizing sharply away from each other, with women becoming more left-wing and men becoming more right-wing, and if you actually look at the graph it just shows men becoming mildly more conservative, a change that is barely perceptible, while women are stampeding to the left.
South Korea is an exemption though, as far as I can tell.
Botond173
23d ago
Given all the political realities at play, even an Ukrainian military collapse would not be likely to result in anything more than the loss of territorries East of the Dnieper.
Botond173
26d ago
None of that explains why Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson etc. regularly get called incels though.
Fair point. I'd add the qualifier that the verbal shaming of certain men as a way of intentionally disadvantaging them was normally directed at those men who refused to live up to society's ideals or just ignored those for whatever reason instead of failing through no fault of their own. Maybe I'm too much of an idealist in this regard, but I'd say this is how it normally went.
Botond173
3d ago
I, for one, would love to hear from Atlanticists and Putinists as well what they think the endgame is here. No, really. Like, what?
Botond173
3d ago
Yes, it was fine. And it's not like the current social regime is not as unjust in other aspects, so it doesn't matter.
Anyway, why are you also bringing up inequality? This entire subject has nothing to do with inequality.
Botond173
3d ago
Very obviously the bear vs man meme is about the threat of rape, torture and murder, not about weirdness being icky. The main characteristic of a bear isn't that it's weird, it's that it's a mortal threat. Let's not fool ourselves. The reason the feminist commenter above brought up "weirdness" instead of "attempted rape/murder" is due to his intent of portraying the average woman as living in constant fear of something mundane and widespread and yet horrific (supposedly).
Botond173
8d ago
I'm not sure I understand if HBD has some unified perspective on this. While I see darker hispanics, most hispanics I see are majority European.
It's because Hispanic is a linguistic category, not a racial one.
Botond173
16d ago
Fair enough. When I first read it, I didn't notice that the story also entails boning.
Botond173
18d ago
To emphasize the point, men in their cohort who enter the workforce had their mandatory military service counted as work experience and so enter at a higher pay level.
Well, there's a rather self-evident political option to remedy this.
Buying a house is a precondition to marrying under Korean social norms.
Is there any society where owning a house/apartment is not generally considered necessary before marriage?
Botond173
24d ago
Somehow invading Moldova from a separatist region which is geographically akin to a leather belt in appearance, is landlocked, and bordered by Ukraine on the other side would be the mother of all pro-gamer moves, I guess.
With regard to the so-called ethnic campaigns I think it's necessary to point out that the ethnic minorities who were targeted (in a loose sense) in the purges all had ethnic homelands of their own which bordered the USSR and were either hostile states, former wartime adversaries like Poland or Finland, or colonized by a hostile state, such as Korea under Japanese rule. While this was never expressed officially, the purges and terror waves targeted individuals with any ties abroad, no matter how insignificant, because the regime accused foreign governments of secretly plotting to overthrow the Soviet system with the assistance of recruited internal wreckers, spies, traitors, terrorists etc. It is for this reason that Korean, Latvian, Polish etc. minorities were hugely overrepresented among the victims of state terror, not because the regime wanted to stick it to non-Russians as such.
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