Botond173
6hr ago
The simple truth is that nobody, either man or woman, should ever go hiking in the woods alone, with or without bears inhabiting those woods, period.
Botond173
4hr ago
It's still not advisable though. Getting lost or suffering an injury can have grave consequences in such a situation, especially if there's no cell phone signal.
Botond173
2d ago
Plenty of married couples rent?
I'm sure they do, generally as long as they're still childless. Once they're not, I'm not sure most people see that as a viable option.
Botond173
2d ago
You can't write this and then not give us anything!
Check the quotes in the original comment, I suggest.
Botond173
7d ago
It's hardly realistic to assume that any Russian offensive in the future will even reach the Moldovan border.
Botond173
28d ago
Drugs are no big deal, the whole war on drugs thing is right wing conservative Republican freakout
designed to tyrannize innocent BIPOC, of course.
Botond173
2d 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
2d ago
Russia is actively taking refugees from the middle east and elsewhere and shipping them to the Finnish border where they are provided with bicycles and told to cross.
How is that, in effect, different from what Serbian, Macedonian and Turkish authorities were doing in 2015?
Botond173
8d ago
Sociology as a legitimate discipline existed before leftists ruined it in the West, you know.
Botond173
9d ago
The IT sector as a whole in the United States has, as long as such records have been kept, attracted more men than women.
I'm not disputing that.
This is mere pravda.
As far as I know, it's actually Sociology 101. Men are more likely than women to apply to jobs for the purpose of supporting a family or to position themselves as eligible for marriage. This means they're less likely then women to accept positions with bad pay/prospects, no matter what advantages may be on the table. So if people get the impression that the IT sector offers better prospects than they thought, which is basically what happened after the 1980s, it will attract more men than before.
An increase in data-entry "operator" positions (typing, basically, for which women had been predominantly hired for decades) compared to the "console operator" type positions (which we know in 1974 leaned slightly male)
Yes, that makes sense. The devil is in the details.
Botond173
10d ago
The social conditions where 'nerd' is no longer normalized as a slur are indeed very, very recent in historic terms, whereas the Sexual Revolution was more than 50 years ago.
Botond173
10d ago
I'm only informed enough to use basic sociology as reference. When the social status of a specific profession appears to be dropping, men start leaving it, and it starts attracting women instead, especially single women. If society starts attaching higher status to it, such as what happened to the IT sector as a whole after, say, 1980 or 1990, it then attracts more men than women.
Still, the 70% figure from 1986 is kind of crazy, but I guess another part of it is that it became more common to hire single women to such positions after reliable contraception became accessible.
Botond173
12d ago
Exactly. I was about to point that out, but I wasn't sure if the OP is referring to E.R.
Botond173
14d ago
"Upper Volta with rockets" was the phrase coined (possibly by a British journalist) in the 80s
It was actually coined by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
Botond173
3hr 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
19hr ago
I don't know. But that's what I consider plausible by looking at the one relevant historical parallel, Vietnam.
Botond173
2d ago
I'd say the decisive factor was the armistice in 1953, and the Americans not leaving. The war was never terminated in a clear manner, and was instead transformed into the mess that persists to this day, with the DMZ and so on. Had the North Koreans been capable enough to successfully and swiftly reunify the country through force, as it happened in Vietnam, Korea today would be a more or less normally functioning, average Asian nation, as Vietnam is. This'd be preferable to the current situation. One consequence of American military presence was the widening exposure of the populace to American cultural concepts, such as radical feminism. Also, there wouldn't be any Sarah Jeongs in the US.
Another factor was the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in 1979, which the Americans probably had some role in by either abetting it or supporting it. If there was one South Korean leader after 1953 who had both the willingness and ability to turn the country into a more or less normally functioning Asian nation without the current social dystopia of implemented cyberpunk, it was definitely him. If given 5 or 10 more years, it might have worked. But it was not to be, and he was replaced by a stooge of Washington.
Botond173
7d 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
10d 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
18hr ago
Early 20s reader of The Ethical Slut finally finds the rich foreign gentleman she's been trying to snag. Comes back raving about how the first date was amazing, he must have spent $500 between dinner and the hotel, she's finally found the man of her dreams. A week later he has to go on an international business trip, and stops answering his phone. Oddly, his phone is ringing like it's still in Korea ...
To be fair, this behavior is genuinely puzzling.
Botond173
1d 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.
That's not the point. It's a matter of not being careless.
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