Crowstep
7hr ago
I'm not sure that's true.
What do you fear, lady?' he [Aragorn] asked. 'A cage,' she [Eowyn] said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire
Seems like she was interested in the glory of battle, not fighting because she was forced to by circumstance.
I always thought Eowyn was Tolkein's weakest character. Iron age aristocrat women didn't sit around demanding the right to kill and die like their menfolk. And the fact that she was only able to kill the Witch-king through a linguistic loophole is particularly galling.
Crowstep
7d ago
I think focusing on DEI and affirmative action is misleading. This college is talking about a change in the past five years. The US has had affirmative action since the 1970s, the expansion of higher ed started in the 1980s, grade inflation in high school since the 1960s. Some happened between 2020 and 2025 that drastically changed the competence level of the incoming cohort.
Crowstep
9d ago
I'm not claiming that jealous and envious are complete synonyms, I mentioned a distinction between them in my post.
I'm claiming that thoroughlygruntled's distinction is wrong. He's proposing a difference which could exist between them, but doesn't, and hasn't at any point in the hundreds of years that the words have been used.
Crowstep
9d ago
I'm more sympathetic to those, since they're being used for things that can pretty reasonably be infantalised.
Veggies on the other hand, drives me mad. A food group does not need a childish pet name.
Crowstep
9d ago
People tend to use them as synonyms (more often simply using jealousy for both terms)
If the average person uses a word to mean X, then the word means X, surely?
I've never heard of the distinction you're making, and apparently neither has the Cambridge Dictionary. Merriam-Webster says that they have always been used as synonyms, although jealous has the extra meaning of suspicious possessiveness.
Crowstep
10d ago
When your post started with 'humanity peaked in the 90s', I didn't think the reason was going to be that James Bond would need to learn too many languages these days, quite the curveball.
Crowstep
11d ago
Drowning in pussy, maybe not. But Indian men are not exactly known for their chastity.
Crowstep
11d ago
Because fat people are stupid. If they were smart, they would not be fat. It is easy not to be fat, so if you are fat, it is because you are too stupid, lazy and greedy not to be fat. Everyone knows this!
I assume this is a joke, because if not then something has been making us real stupid since the 1970s.
Crowstep
11d ago
“Most men in bio are short because they can’t get women, but because you’re tall I know you’re genuinely interested in bio”
Odd, as I'm not sure biology is known as a high-paying field that draws in short men (surely that would be finance or something) but not objectionable.
“Women at Oxford and Cambridge are better than Harvard and Yale because they know their job is to look pretty and get a rich husband”
If a woman finds herself surrounded by very intelligent, conscientious men, she'd be crazy to not try and marry one of them. I'm not the first person to realise this.
“There is a biochemical link between exposure to sunlight and sexual urges.. that’s why you have Latin lovers”
Definitely true. The link between vitamin D and testosterone is well-established.
“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them”
Seems like a poor choice as a hiring manager. Why not take advantage of anti-fat prejudice and get talented fatties at a steal? But still not an earth-shattering revelation.
Crowstep
24d ago
Baggy jeans are pretty much universal among Zoomer women. They are just as ubiquitous as skinny jeans were on millennial women.
The worm will turn though, fashion will change, 'twas always thus.
Crowstep
24d ago
But yeah you should probably leave the UK it sounds awful there for a number of reasons.
That seems like somewhat of an overreaction, like Reddit advice threads that always conclude 'you should leave your boyfriend'.
I'm not going to quit my job, abandon my family and friends, sell my house and uproot my wife and child because the unemployed welfare system is too generous. As much as we moan, the UK is still one of the richest and safest countries in the world.
Crowstep
25d ago
When we talk about social welfare programs, what we're really talking about is insurance. You may say that you work hard, etc., etc. and will never need these policies, but that's about as ingenuous as saying that you're a really good driver and thus don't need liability insurance. You may say that the people who receive the greatest benefit from welfare policies pay the least into it, but how much you receive in insurance payouts is only loosely related to how much you pay in.
I think that's definitely a model of welfare that can be used to describe a high-trust society, but I don't think it's particularly accurate in defection-heavy, low trust societies that exist today. In the UK for example, half a million people between the ages of 16 and 24 have literally never worked (and are not in education). Their welfare payments are not insurance payouts for people who have paid in but who have fallen on hard times. They have never paid in, and they've been claiming from the day they were eligible. And of the entire working age population, a full 25% are on benefits.
I'd be fine if a had a literal insurance system of unemployment, provided by the private sector and which people had to pay premiums to receive. What we have is a simple transfer from the (shrinking) productive part of the population to the unproductive part, and we pretend it's an insurance system.
It's worth mentioning that it is, in fact, possible for a woman to have above-replacement level fertility and a big significant career. If a woman marries at 20 and has four children, all of her kids will be in school by the time she is 30. The President of the European Commission has seven children, to give a real life example.
Early marriage is the secret sauce that allows us to put our best women to work and to pass on their genes.
The real problem is the extended adolescence of the modern elite.
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