Botond173
16d ago
The only thing I could think of is the saga of Tanya the Evil which has a genderbent protagonist but its core idea is 'wouldn't it be cool if there was a dubiously sane evil loli flying ace fighting for not-Germany in not-WW2?' and deliberately desexualizes Tanya
For the sake of visitors who have no knowledge of the show I'd add that the protagonist is 'genderbent' only in the sense that a dickhead atheist salaryman dies in a traffic accident in present-day Japan and then God decides to resurrect his spirit in the body of a female infant born in an orphanage at wartime in a monarchy that is basically a stand-in for Imperial Germany but in a parallel universe (I suppose) in the past, the purpose being to teach him a lesson on fate, divinity, morals etc. We see Tanya grow up to be a child who is discovered to have magical powers that are useful in combat and is thus recruited to the imperial armed forces. It's more correct to say that she isn't sexualized in the first place (nor is any other character for that matter) because, well, she's a pre-pubescent girl. So bringing it up as an example of gender-bending is a bit of a stretch.
Botond173
16d ago
There was a strong push from the gaming press against the popularity of souls-like games because their difficulty and the git-good attitude it fostered in their audience was exclusionary
Exclusionary towards women and generally anyone who isn't a young toxic white male game nerd, I presume?
Botond173
16d ago
'unlike males'? What real roles do adolescent males have today to slot into?
Botond173
16d ago
I'd say the looksmaxxing and e-thotting phenomena are consequences of unrestricted female hypergamy fueling the mating market apocalypse; it's plausible that more and more GenZ-ers are engaging in this among the minority of them that are more exhibitionist and/or psychopathic than average but a much larger part of them is effectively checking out. In China there are actually different names applied to them: rat people, lying flat.
Botond173
16d ago
I'd argue that for an average young Western man today to find work at a general store in the country is not exactly to drop out of the rat race but to find a livelihood that is actually not even bad on balance when compared to his other options for employment.
Botond173
17d ago
As far as I can tell, most cases of MtF transition happen among young adult males basically driven by the longing to escape the life of a sexually invisible and unwanted organism whereas FtM transition is usually done by children (young girls) due to overall frustration with being biological females, and this decision is usually supported and influenced by their mothers, usually single women who basically grew to hate being women.
Botond173
17d ago
There's no 40 acres and a Good Wife (TM) to walk with into the sunset. The HOA has problems with our lifestock and Wifey is at therapy and thinks we need to have a conversation about emotional labor.
Can I get a mule instead?
Botond173
17d ago
There's further evidence of this hypothesis being correct: the Woke could simply go on to invent, design, create and market their own original games, which can then be just as Woke as they want them to be. But this is not their strategy. It's capturing and ruining games and franchises that already exist.
Botond173
17d ago
So..what was all this talk then about Woke being dead or on the retreat?
Botond173
17d ago
After all these years, it appears that the best explanation we can come up with is that Oswald and Ruby each acted alone. But just because that’s the best explanation doesn’t mean it’s a very good explanation. It’s merely somewhat less absurd than all the other specific hypotheses. - Steve Sailer
Botond173
17d ago
removing gameplay and shoving easy modes into everything
Is this actually a trend in the gaming industry?
Botond173
17d ago
Fair point. Anime series of any genre are also known for basically not portraying any female characters that are frumpy/plain or obese etc.
Botond173
17d ago
What surprises me is the ferocity with which the supporters of Hades and BC defend the artwork and decry the label of "safe horny" (which, as I understand, means technically, but not viscerally, attractive).
As someone who knows scarcely anything on this subject I'd have assumed that label refers to the character's outfit/clothing.
Botond173
17d ago
My point here, to the extent that I even have one, is that I'm taking a wild guess that female vets who specialize in treating horses are not actually that rare, the main reason being that they see horses more as pets than livestock, which in a practical sense they are.
Botond173
18d ago
I'm guessing one aspect to this is that to be a large-animal veterinarian you have to live in the countryside, and female vets (like college-educated women in general) are not prone to wanting that.
Botond173
18d ago
Do you mean a horse with a cast on its leg? Aren't horses normally just shot in those cases?
Botond173
18d ago
I would compare the average horse that is kept anywhere in the West to large dog breeds: big, heavy and potentially dangerous, basically kept as a pet i.e. for the entertainment of the owner, and not for any economic role.
Botond173
18d ago
To what extend is Boomerism/Boomerdom even a thing in France, I wonder. They never had a Baby Boom, nor an economic miracle, I think.
Botond173
18d ago
I'd point out here as well that Russian society does not normalize/enforce white/native ethnomasochism and also does not capitulate to every demand of the Israel lobby. This is a rather palpable difference from the West, isn't it? It also appears to me that Western European elites like to extensively talk about the merits of the ideal that is multiculturalism while not showing any aptitude or willingness to actually practise it whereas Russians claim to renounce the Western ideal of multiculturalism while practising de facto multiculturalism everyday.
Botond173
18d ago
History teaches us that such atrocities usually occur immediately after a place is taken after heavy fighting in a combat situation that is altogether hectic and fluid. It makes sense to assume that the Ukrainian units that retook the town immediately killed a bunch of civilians they considered to be traitors, collaborators, looters etc.
Botond173
18d ago
Maybe it's too simplistic to approach the matter like this but I'd say it was the Kosovo War and the Iraq War of 2003 that fatally weakened the legitimacy of the concept of the rule-based international order.
Botond173
18d ago
Reasonable question if you haven’t come across FIT before
I surely have not.
My first guess would be these students were just renting a NYC apartment.
It seems I should've read the article before commenting:
According to prosecutors, Freire brought fentanyl to the students’ dorm room March 18 and falsely claimed that the substance, which he’d previously described as “straight poison,” was pure cocaine. At his urging, the women took the drug and almost immediately lost consciousness, prosecutors said. Freire was not a student at FIT.
At a court hearing in April, Freire’s lawyer, Mitchell Schwartz, called the woman’s death a tragedy but said Freire was not trying to ply the students with drugs.
If anything, he told Judge Sidney Stein, what preceded the overdoses — including the woman’s suggestion that Freire wear a wig and “look like a girl” so he could sneak up to her dorm room after she had invited him over — was “a story of teenagers doing what I would call ‘dumb teenager things.’”
“It’s not dumb teenager things to give somebody fentanyl, sir,” Stein replied.
Botond173
18d ago
I'd argue the traditional way of learning from other men how to be sexual in a healthy way has been to have a father and uncles who live in happy marriages and to instinctively imitate their mannerisms and attitudes, and the way to learn a healthy (realistic) view of female behavior was to have sisters, nieces and aunts to interact with and observe.
There has been a Dirtbag Left meme for more than a decade at this point that dissident right-wing - and, of course, 'transphobic' - online chuds and trolls usually select anime avatars, usually female ones. I think the reason given was that they see anime as counter-cultural or at least not mainstream in present-day liberal America. I don't think there's a deeper reason for any of this other than the intent to signal membership in a counterculture.
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