Botond173
1d ago
As a general rule, women mature earlier but also age faster. In the case of an early marriage, the woman front-loads her investment while the man back-loads it. In other words, in a functioning marriage the wife makes the most of her contribution while she's young and the man does so when he's old. In that sense, OP's assessment is correct.
Botond173
1d ago
This is also another consequence of the normalization of extended adolescence. Some proportion of men have always turned out to be bums and louts, everyone was aware of this, but back when people were expected to mature earlier, the matter was usually settled by the age of 25 or so. Today it's entirely possible for a single man to appear to be a good catch on the surface at the age of 25 but turn out to be a lout, a bum, an addict etc. 5-10 years later, so committing to him entails a higher risk.
Botond173
1d ago
There was supposedly a social program in Singapore called Graduate Mothers with the exact goal of promoting this strategy. It supposedly also happened to be the one policy of Lee Kuan Yew that was a failure, which says a lot about the enormity of this problem.
Botond173
1d ago
Two relevant comments from 2014 on a social conservative blog I used to visit:
It was clear from the beginning that this was never about legal equality, per se (although that was an important part of it), but rather about social equality – that is, forcing everyone to treat same sex couplings the same way they do opposite sex couplings, under penalty of severe social sanction if they do not do so.
There is a template for this – the template that was used for race, and the template that was used for sex. It’s just being applied in a new context, but the template is the same, and that’s why it will work. It has a track record of working, after all. In 20 years, if not sooner, these kinds of discussions will be viewed the same way as discussions about race that took place in the 1950s-70s – anachronistic, bigoted, and something worthy of eye-rolls and headshakes.
They’ve won, folks. On this issue, they have won – it’s going to be treated like being an open racist or an open sexist – in other words, severe social and professional sanction, all unofficial of course, but powerful all the same. It will have the effect of stamping it out. Just like with cigarettes. It’s the way we do things here – slap a scarlet letter on it, and stamp it out through social sanction.
We will be permitted to have dissenting views, but only privately – as in, not expressing them in public, not outside of our homes, not outside of our churches. Not in the professional sphere, nor the political sphere, nor the extended social sphere. Over time, this will lead to the ideas dying out, slowly, over time, other than for a committed radical core. Which will be seen as being radical and fringe.
Of course, that’s not a call for surrender. They have won for the time being, but no merely human victory is ever eternal. Their star will wane eventually, and we must be ready when it does. But for now, it’s a time to consolidate, to reflect on what went so badly wrong, and to protect to the extent that we can without making ourselves martyrs needlessly.
There will be a "virtual gulag" in which dissidents are excluded from society. They lose their jobs and can't find any work other than subsistence work, if that. They are excluded from churches and places of worship. They will be banned from public accommodations such as restaurants and hotels; banned from doing business or purchasing goods and services. It won't be official. It will just be that word gets around about who the dissidents are, and no one will do business with or socialize with them at all. They will starve to death, literally, in plain sight.
I recall reading that 12% of Soviet military pilots were women at the start of the war, actually.
Botond173
1d ago
Also, it's women who build and maintain the entire social world, which is also sort of important.
Botond173
1d ago
In honor-based patriarchal cultures it was also generally expected of a woman belonging to the warrior class (by marriage) or the nobility to grab some bladed weapon and inevitably die a honorable death if the alternative is getting captured and gang-raped by a victorious enemy or mere criminals. (This doesn't apply to peasants, serfs and the servant class, as they are without honor and aren't expected to fight.) Thus it made sense for these women to have at least a minimal familiarity with weaponry. This is probably the reason for the common misconception that shieldmaidens or female samurai existed.
Botond173
1d ago
I’m not familiar with any data on this but I seriously doubt the average woman who signs up for military service anywhere in the world normally does so at the age of 18.
A 24 year old can easily have 4-6 kids
Not unless she belongs to some dedicatedly natalist counterculture like the Amish or so - that is the current social reality in the West. And in that case she’s very unlikely to become a military volunteer. I also doubt that a woman doing military service is generally conducive to her ever entering a stable marriage in the first place.
Even in the worst of the wars, only 15% of young men died -- that would in France/Germany in WWI.
That would not be the worst of wars in terms of the loss of young men. The Paraguayan War of 1864-70, the Serbian army in WW1 and the Soviet army in WW2 all resulted in a casualty rate that was much higher than 15%, to name just three examples. Not that any of this disproves OP’s argument about the 30% figure in any sense but it needs to be pointed out anyway.
Botond173
1d ago
My point is that there may have been a palpable feminist message in the series for all I know but I surely don't remember it. My memory is not the best though. To the extent that girlboss characters are present, I don't recall them being portrayed positively.
Botond173
2d ago
I'd say the crazy and hot (maybe implicitly sexually aggressive) warrior girl who also has male-coded interests (weapons, martial arts etc.) is a fairly typical male fantasy and is the main reason for the inclusion of such characters in Avatar, for example. I remember binge-watching the series a couple of years ago and while there are only a few aspects I can recall, not once do I remember getting any impression that it carries a (radical) feminist message. But maybe I'm just dull.
Botond173
4d ago
May I ask why are you talking of 'based and trad white Russia' as if this was some sort of pwnage? I'm sure you're also aware that the very simple reasons why the notion of 'based and trad' Russia even exists is that Russian society a) does not promote or expect white ethnomasochism b) does not normalize feminism and the LGBT+ agenda. That's it; there's nothing else to it. The idea that Russia is a white supremacist or nativist regime which strictly limits immigration is a fantasy alleged by virtually nobody anywhere.
Botond173
4d ago
"But these munitions are from the 70s and 80s. Half of them do not function, and the rest require either restoration or inspection before use," the GUR official said, citing Ukraine's latest assessment.
Ignoring Ukrainian propaganda aims for a moment, I'd suspect this statement is basically accurate, except for the 50% figure maybe (it's probably lower). I imagine it's merely a standard procedure at the artillery arm. It makes practical sense that at least the first batches of the shipped North Korean shells are the oldest ones in stock, as these are the ones that need to be used up first when the necessity arises.
Botond173
4d ago
Remember that it was Russia that rejected Trump's peace plan, which included international recognition of Crimea as Russian, no NATO membership for Ukraine, and Russia gets to keep captured territories, including the land bridge.
It had to include other conditions as well for them to reject it, provided that this allegation is true in the first place.
Botond173
5d ago
Similarly, Russia is demanding limits on the Ukrainian army and essentially neutralization by forcing Ukraine to give up its NATO aspirations
In Finland's case though there was nothing similar to give up because there wasn't even any external power inviting them to join any anti-Soviet alliance.
Botond173
5d ago
Mild scissor can be something like "hotdogs are sandwiches" or "tomato is a fruit".
Such statements only make you look like a dumbass, nothing more. A scissor statement very pointedly turns you not into a dumbass but a dangerous thought criminal.
Botond173
5d ago
EU policy towards Russia seems to entirely hinge on the assumption though that Russia is planning the invasion of Moldova, the Baltics and Poland. Also, Finland was in the markedly different situation that only one external power was supporting them by 1944 and only in a rather limited sense.
Botond173
7d ago
...Yes?
I got the impression that many average white liberal normies earnestly don't understand why she just didn't fall in line, bend the knee and denounce racism. The just don't get it. "All she had to do was say that she isn't racist! The interviewer just gave her a perfect opportunity to redeem herself! I mean, how hard is that?! Wtf??!!" It's incomprehensible, and the only possible explanation is that she's an evil Nazi. On the other side, dissident rightists and Trump supporters see this and earnestly don't understand how anyone can not see that the interviewer was setting up a usual, dishonest, sneaky leftist trap. Like, how can anyone pretend otherwise??!!
The movie is irrelevant in all of this, isn't it? I've read that it indeed flopped, then again, any movie where Sweeney is cast but plays a role where she doesn't show her tits off is bound to flop, I guess. Either way, nobody actually cares. Other than that, well, sorry to be blunt, but your comment basically comes off as another variation of the "Relax, it's just a few crazy college kids on Twitter, it'll blow over" narrative.
Botond173
7d ago
I guess you're right; at least some minimal explanation is in order, even on this forum. I included a Wikipedia link.
I know this probably counts as low effort, but I suspect it's fair to say the recent controversial Sydney Sweeney interview provides a near-perfect example of Shiri's scissors, doesn't it?
Botond173
8d ago
I find it sort of an interesting window into our culture's soul why people would seem to prefer it if Tebow didn't live up to his values.
That isn't my point. Either way, I'll probably do the effortpost.
Let's consider a 24-yr-old woman who completed 6 years of military service and another woman of the same age who did other things. Which one of them have a higher chance of entering a stable marriage resulting in 4-6 kids?
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