Botond173
1hr ago
It's funny that you mentioned that. When the subject of mainstream discussion is old people, their declining quality of life, social isolation, solitude and the health risks that entails, people inevitably make the argument that it's harmful for different demographic cohorts to self-segregate, that it's important for your overall well-being to interact regularly with people of different ages, that it's important to open yourself up to the lived experience and perspective of people that are either younger or older than you etc.
Botond173
5hr ago
This is understandable and has been discussed to death on this site as well, but we should consider that female attractiveness equals female fecundity, the maintenance of which is rather taxing on the body. I imagine most women would not prefer a life of being fertile for multiple decades.
Botond173
6hr ago
The only attitudes I see going in the opposite direction are those related to hedonism (legalization of weed, porn, psychedelics, gay marriage, etc.).
What I'm noticing is that these attitudes are almost exclusive to the U.S., and I'd assume the main motivation behind them is to throw ragebait at the Christian Right out of spite, even though I don't think most of the people doing this ever notice that they're about 20 years late because the Christian Right has been a spent force for a long time.
Two additional points.
One: middle-class, urban, college-educated, office-working single women generally agree that a) society should be OK with them waiting until the age of 31-33 to settle down b) when that happens, 33-37-year-old well-paid, high-status, successful, ambitious, good-fashioned male managers should be lining up to propose to them because, as far as they're concerned, these are the men that are their own equals. It should be just self-evident. When these men refuse to do so and, moreover, decide to jiggle / pair up with 22-25-year-old hot women instead, it generates a considerable level of resentment. That wouldn't normally spill over to other social circles, but the people who write blogs, articles, books etc. about, and generally appear in the media to comment on, the human marketplace are either such women themselves, or are in social circles where most of the women are such women as these. This then has a larger social effect as a result.
Two: the notion of a man openly, unashamedly making selfish and hedonistic use of whatever advantage he has in life is generally not something society is OK with. It's seen as unbecoming behavior. Like taking a long vacation in the Philippines and making local impoverished young women engage in all sorts of disgusting sexual acts with you in exchange for a sum of money that's almost considered a pittance at home.
regarding (2a) and (4), it's not just abuse but also another form of disadvantage. Due to the mismatch in male and female average life expectancy, a woman who marries a significantly older man will be condemned to the lot of a widow with children for many years, someone who's basically an unmarriageable, invisible creature.
Botond173
9hr ago
There’s also another aspect to this. Today there is broad consensus among most single men that dating as such is a big pain in the neck. In the old days, however, when the word ‘dating’ had a slightly different meaning and was generally understood not to entail sexual acts, it was specifically meant to be fun.
Botond173
11hr ago
One of the most common memes among men online is that women have it insanely easy.
It has also been happening the other way around for decades. This phenomenon is not without social context.
Botond173
3d ago
Relevant news report from San Antonio, Texas from 2010 or so:
Botond173
4d ago
Maybe I just missed it, but I'm a bit surprised that nobody seems to have mentioned the demographic collapse of Sparta, which was a significant driving force behind her demise.
https://spartareconsidered.blogspot.com/2014/05/missing-mothers-cause-of-spartas-decline.html
https://heartiste.org/2014/01/09/the-want-of-men-was-their-ruin/
Botond173
6d ago
So I guess the Left largely believes that the legislative branch is somehow beyond their influence?
Botond173
6d ago
"Even war, that most quintessential of masculine activities, is probably a thing of the past. For war you need a large supply of young men. With the great demographic collapse of modern times, that supply is drying up. Soft, feminized, over-civilized, under-militarized societies of the past were likely to be jolted back into vigor, or just overrun, by warriors from the wild places. Now there are no more wild places. While one should never be complacent about these things, and it is possible that a starship fleet of unwashed plunderers, cutlasses in their teeth and knives in their boots, is on its way from Alpha Centauri even as I write, the odds are good that the human race ain't gonna study war no more." - John Derbyshire, 2001
Botond173
6d ago
I don't know about Thailand but this definitely isn't the first major school shooting in Russia.
Botond173
6d ago
I think it bears mentioning here that Black hip-hop and the ghetto thug culture markedly does not originate in the American South, nor does the existence of racially self-segregated decaying urban cores.
Botond173
6d ago
As far as I know it was definitely not civil disobedience that Mandela was imprisoned for.
Botond173
6d ago
Well, the last time broadly lefty US citizens felt compelled to obstruct government agents was a really long time ago, so she probably lacks any point of reference.
Botond173
6d ago
I think it'd make sense here for you to explain in a bit more detail what the word "system" exactly entails here.
Botond173
6d ago
If you Google this, AI will helpfully tell you the government's response was 'brutal.' I guess letting the poor girls die is the humane thing to do. Oh, wait!
I guess Google AI was also designed by feminists. Very obviously it seems to presuppose that the only humane thing to do in this situation was to accept that the Suffragettes are on the right side of history, yield to them, and then roll over and die.
Botond173
6d ago
I imagine plenty of normal, average people are undecided voters, so that certainly is plausible. However, as humans are only rarely persuaded by facts, logic and reason in a real sense, I'd say such normies exist, but are a small minority. A normie is, by definition, someone not exposed to anything outside the mainstream, be that anything of political nature or not.
Botond173
6d ago
His specialty is an classics, specifically the military history of the Roman republic. That's a very old-school, white male coded, conservative interest.
Noted. But can't the same be said about anyone specializing in ancient Rome in general, ancient Greece in general and not just Sparta, or the Middle Ages in general, for example, or even military history as a whole?
Botond173
7d ago
He overstayed (probably deliberately, you would have to imagine) a tourist visa and did what a lot of illegal Irish do: settle down in Boston, get a job, and establish a life.
That bit was funny, I have to admit.
Botond173
7d ago
"Obtaining" is probably not the correct word. She's "obtaining" sex with the man whether she's enthusiastic or not, after all. That's not the relevant part. What I think is going on here is that hot women normally assume, for a good reason, that they have a strong mesmerizing effect on men. If she submits to a man's desire, she assumes that he'll be so overwhelmed with urge and longing that he'll be unable to think of anything else but taking her in hand and ravishing her. This has indeed been normally the case throughout history. It's just the typical female fantasy (heh) and the reason why "rape fantasies" exist. The idea that she'd need to proactively take additional steps to inflame his urges so as to ensure that he really wants her and that he's really enjoying it all is, frankly, not only alien but also degrading and demoralizing to her.
That's a good point. I think two factors are at play.
One: in earlier times, an older guy unashamedly, routinely pursuing younger women simply ended up getting beaten up by younger men sooner or later. But in an age of online dating, social atomization and the death of clubbing, this risk disappeared.
Two: few young women are signalling a willingness to settle down with equally young men and thus practice assortative mating. This erodes young men's willingness to mate-guard.
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