Botond173
8d ago
I disagree and think 2rafa is on point here. It's generally not effectiveness that elicits rage in the cultural war but the utilization of symbolism i.e. attacking symbols one way or another. This particular decision about making the execution public acts as ragebait without providing one ounce of political utility to Trump. It's not that one should abandon effectiveness out of courtesy but that political measures are to be effective whether they induce rage or not.
Botond173
9d ago
I am specially fond of Nagatoro; my heart melted when I read chapter 114. I was so proud of Senpai for finally having the courage to ask Nagatoro to pose nude for him; it's a very beautiful scene that is the culmination of six years of character and relationship development.
According to the same subreddit his evolution progressed even further since then.
On a different note I'm not that sure all of the series you mentioned are aimed at (young) men.
Botond173
9d ago
Granted that you're right, it seems one of two phenomena is at work here, or a mixture of both: the attitudes of the female cosplayer subculture are themselves changing, or there is a process of E-thot entryism taking place there.
Botond173
10d ago
Is it maybe a plausible explanation that it's the female character designs themselves in games and anime series that are generally skimpier than before?
Botond173
10d ago
men were more interested in the (fantasy) world shown to them by the likes of Hugh Hefner. There's probably a 2rafa-style argument to be made here, something-something sexual revolution
Isn't it commonly accepted wisdom that men predominantly respond to visual stimulation as opposed to women?
Botond173
10d ago
Botond173
10d ago
the first public execution in America since 1937
This got me intrigued because I could swear I remember learning it ages ago from some book that the last public execution in the US took place in 1936. I looked around on the internet and it seems most sources also confirm the latter date. Roscoe Jackson's case went down the memory hole apparently. Wikipedia claims that Rainey Bethea's hanging in Kentucky was botched and generated a big media circus which in turn prompted the legislature to end public executions. It should be noted for context that Bethea was convicted of rape and the law they repealed in 1938 specifically stated that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims.
I wonder if you've run into the phenomenon of "slash" fiction (widely available on the web, mostly non-commercial, and sometimes in violation of copyright laws)? Slash involves taking male buddies from popular fiction -- Kirk/Spock, Holmes/Watson, Starsky/Hutch (hence the "slash") -- and writing stories in which, in the course of their adventures, they find out that they're more than just good friends, and wind up having graphic sex together. "Slash" is about 100% written and read by women -- some lesbian but most straight. In fact it follows romance novel formulas very closely. One member of the buddy pair is more sensitive and feminine -- physically a man, emotionally a woman -- while the other is a conventional romance hero. With Kirk/Spock, it's Kirk who's the sensitive one and Spock who's the cold, emotionally distant hero who discovers his true feelings at the end. Part of the appeal is that the guys end up having sex not because they're gay, but because True Love conquers all.
I think that most men are secretly (or openly) afraid that women don't like sex and only view it as a bargaining chip to get what they want out of males (companionship, emotional and physical support, or babies). Women are afraid that men only want them for sex and thus view emotional support of females mainly as a chore that they perform in order to get sex, or in order to have her give him children (in other ways, the same way men worry about women and sex). Girl-on-girl porn "proves" that women want sex, because if they didn't, why would lesbians bother having sex with each other, instead of just cuddling all the time? Similarly, if gay men get all "girly" around each other and think about love, commitment, and relationships, then that "proves" that men are interested in such things - because if they were just ploys to get sex, gay men would have no reason to do these things amongst each other, because they can easily get sex from each other. So heterohomophilia (a term I coined for heterosexual fascination with homosexuals of the opposite sex) is, I think, as much about dealing with insecurity as anything else.
Steve Sailer quoting two of his readers on this subject back in 2006
Botond173
13d ago
I don't think I'm overestimating it among female college students. I think the clear cultural messages have been conveyed to them for a long time that a) slut-shaming is done by angry and bitter men b) any male complaints about or negative reactions to female sexual behavior are fundamentally loser-coded and are to be dismissed. So I'm guessing she assumed that the fratboys were behind her getting disinvited from the party and it fueled her anger.
Botond173
13d ago
It's probably no coincidence that the three groups of women with the general reputation of being down for performative/desire sex are young women (so not yet interested in long-term commitment), recently divorced women (done with the whole concept of long-term commitment, at least for the time being) and cougars (who basically left the mating/relationship marketplace altogether).
Botond173
13d ago
Isn't the whole point of the existence of sororities to insert themselves in situations such as this?
Botond173
13d ago
It makes sense. Women obviously have no innate conception of the effect of T on the sex drive and what it can compel them to do.
Botond173
13d ago
Are you sure about this? A 20-yr-old was 11 years old when the MeToo campaign started.
Botond173
13d ago
It seems to be that OP is referring to an unwritten/unstated social rule so asking for publicly available evidence probably isn't warranted here.
Botond173
13d ago
At least among the subset of women willing to engage in group sex in the first place, is it safe to assume most will regret it?
Probably yes.
I would expect that the vast majority of these sorts of encounters end with all parties going their separate ways having gotten more-or-less what they wanted out of it.
I guess I'm beating a dead horse of my own at his point but everyone involved here belonged to the same small social circle on campus. Going their separate ways wasn't a realistic option. It was also unrealistic to expect that the men involved will all go on to conspire to carefully conceal the incident from all other women in the same social circle.
Botond173
13d ago
I recall this being a specific argument of the Youtuber The Jolly Heretic.
Botond173
14d ago
In this telling, it's very much a "is there anyone you forgot to ask" situation, where third parties are inserting themselves into something that they have no business inserting themselves into.
Well sorry but no. A queen bee who's heading a sorority presumably with high status on campus has an evident interest in preventing that sorority from gaining the reputation of being associated with crazy sluts.
Botond173
14d ago
Don't you think that there is too high a bar for this level of conspiracy and coordination in this particular social setting?
Botond173
14d ago
Botond173
14d ago
it was the men who were not taking responsibility for their choices
The responsibility to do...what? Other commenters here have pointed out that the disinvitation to the Halloween party obviously seems to originate from the sorority queen bee. Were they responsible to defy her in this?
Botond173
14d ago
So to spell it out, in your view it was the unmet specific obligation of the fratboys involved to carefully conceal the incident from a) the sorority queen bee and her minions b) clueless male students of the same college whom the woman in question sees as potential future boyfriends/husbands.
My Dress-Up Darling and Komi Can't Communicate did come across to me as more female-oriented than not.
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