Crowstep
12hr ago
I think you're really grasping at straws. Here's a quote from Weir himself:
I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that.
I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.
He's talking more about politics, but when the author describes himself as an agnostic and says he deliberately avoids putting a political or social commentary in his books, I really don't think you can conclude that the book is a religious allegory.
Crowstep
18hr ago
The partisan gap goes in the same direction as the sex gap, but it's much larger. So American women might be 10-20% more pro-immigration then men, but Democrats are 40-70% more pro-immigration than Republicans. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any questions that have this specific crosstab (Republic women vs Democrat men) for direct comparison, but Claude estimates that we would expect something like 60% of Republic women to support an anti-immigration policy vs 20% of Democrat men, extrapolating from questions where we do have more in-depth crosstabs.
Of course, it's also worth mentioning that this is basically an Anglophone phenomenon. Outside of the English-speaking world and Northern Europe (who are I would argue are functionally anglophone in terms of English skills and how they interact with the internet) the gender gap on immigration is either tiny or non-existent.
Crowstep
18hr ago
I think both you are the writer are setting this up as a binary. Either he had vitiligo, or he was trying to change his appearance to look more European.
My understanding was that he did have vitiligo, and once he realised he wasn't going to be able to cover it up, he decided to go the other way to lighten his skin. He then had the surgeries to make everything 'match' racially.
What's the alternative, that his doctor diagnosed him with a disease he didn't have and gave him drugs he didn't need, all so that a handsome, popular African American popstar could race-swap for no reason? It's not as if his ancestry was a shameful secret.
What policy and politicians do female voters prefer?
They prefer less war than men in the UK.
You seem to be defining the BLM riots/protests and Biden's immigration policy as war, which they are not.
Although with regards to the BLM riots, I asked Claude to dig into the crosstabs of this Yougov survey on whether they were 'mostly peaceful' or not. 67% of women said they were, with 66% of men said they were, so there's no sigificant difference there. The same is true about questions of police response, who is responsible for the protests turning violent, and other similar questions.
There is a small gap between men and women on immigration/border issues in the Anglosphere, but it's trumped by a much larger partisan one.
It's worth mentioning that there is really nothing trad* about large marital age gaps (except maybe for widowers). Amish and Haredi men marry when they are 21/22. Their brides are typically 1-2 years younger. 'Sexual compatibility' isn't really be a thing. Couples grow together, both in their sex lives, and the rest of their lives.
*Caveat here that I'm talking about the west. You do see larger age gaps in Africa, but it's not as if those guys are sleeping around in their 20s, they just can't afford the bride price when they're young and poor.
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