FtttG
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FtttG
1yr ago
This term is, in fact, controversial - at least in the discourse space you and I are participating in. It is, in fact, an extremely tendentious framing, and I do in fact reject it. (The mere fact that the “age of consent” differs so dramatically between different jurisdictions worldwide illustrates that people do in fact disagree substantially about the validity of the framing.)
In Bahrain, a man who violently rapes a woman can escape all legal culpability if he agrees to marry her. The fact that Bahrainis "disagree substantially about the validity of the framing" (namely, that rape is a heinous and despicable crime, and not just because it may be harder for the victim to find a husband) does not give me cause to update my views on rape or reject the conventional western framing.
FtttG
1yr ago
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FtttG
1yr ago
Then there's all the people arguing for why no-fault divorce, and sometimes even the decline of marriage, have been vast positives for women, and therefore society, because they're no longer forced to "settle" as their grandmothers were.
I think it says a lot about you that you hear "settle" and immediately think "woman forced to stay in a marriage with an unattractive husband" as opposed to "women forced to stay in abusive marriage/marriage with a drunk/marriage with a deadbeat" etc.
The fact that women are more likely to come when having sex with an attractive man does not remotely imply that women in relationships with less attractive men are therefore miserable. Sexual satisfaction is but one component of many in what makes a relationship work. (Also, most unattractive men still have fingers and tongues.)
ScienceDirect: "Correlates of satisfaction in British marriages":
Nowhere in the excerpted passage is it mentioned that women married to less attractive men are miserable. The study found that husbands are more satisfied if their wives are more attractive than they are, which is a separate question.
Lucas et al. (2006) looked at heterosexual couple marriages in four different cultures, and found that in every culture, physically attractive people who married a person with approximately the same attractiveness level were more satisfied about their marriage than physically unattractive people, or couples that differed in attractiveness."
This does not imply that attractive women in marriages with less attractive men are miserable, only that they are less satisfied than attractive women in marriages with attractive men.
Lucas, Wendorf, Imamoglu, Shen, Parkhill, Weisfeld, & Weisfeld "Marital satisfaction in four cultures as a function of homogamy, male dominance and female attractiveness"
Nowhere in the excerpted passage is it mentioned that women married to less attractive men are miserable.
Psychology Today: "(4 Reasons Not to Settle in a Relationship)[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/201404/4-reasons-not-settle-in-relationship]":
Again, you're conflating "an attractive woman marrying a less attractive man" with "settling". That's not what "settling" means. I imagine quite a lot of women would rather marry a plain-looking man who is caring, supportive and a good provider over an attractive man who cheats on her and can't hold down a steady job. Plenty of attractive women in relationships with attractive men are still settling.
Or in "How Couples Deal With the Loss of Physical Attraction"
This is just an opinion piece, I don't care.
From the Stanford Graduate School of Business via newswise.com "No-fault Divorce Laws May Have Improved Women's Well-being":
Again, you haven't come close to demonstrating that attractive women in marriages to unattractive men are more prone to suicide. There are hundreds of better reasons a woman might divorce her husband (abusive, drunk, deadbeat, philandering etc.).
Which numbered step is unclear? Where do you "lose the thread," as it were?
You've demonstrated that some rather weak and equivocal evidence exists for step 1, but are treating step 1 as if it was axiomatic and basing the subsequent steps on that.
Ireland is an Anglophone nation as English is the primary language (and most people don't have a second language). Unlike India and South Africa, Ireland isn't part of the Commonwealth.
The violence was also (sort of) real
Uh-huh. Bonus points for the top comment making the exact same GTA comparison I did.
Even Die Hard felt more grounded and believable than this. McClane is a bloody battered wreck by the end of his ordeal, while D-FENS hasn't a scratch on him until he actually gets brought down. And McClane is a cop who deals with hardened criminals every day, while D-FENS is an office drone who's never seen combat, and yet effortlessly mows down Compton gangbangers without a second's hesitation. Whatever Falling Down is, it's not "realistic". I don't even think it was really trying to be.
Have you ever seen the movie Gung Ho?
No I haven't. Does it have a similar plot?
FtttG
2mo ago
I don't think any film which portrays women behaving badly is necessarily misogynistic (e.g. Tár's protagonist is a monster, and I don't think that film is misogynistic - in fact it's the best film I've seen so far this decade).
With regards to The Room itself: Lisa is such a uniquely selfish, manipulative and conniving character with no redeeming traits to speak of, who is pointlessly cruel and vicious to everyone around her just for her own amusement. Coupled with Tommy Wiseau's self-insert character laughing uproariously when his friend tells him a story about an unfaithful woman he knew who got beaten up by her boyfriend so badly that she was hospitalised, and banger quotes like:
I just can't figure women out. Sometimes they're just too smart. Sometimes they're flat-out stupid. Other times they're just evil.
which I get the impression the audience is meant to enthusiastically agree with - yeah, I do actually think Tommy Wiseau hates women as a group, or did at the time of writing/filming.
FtttG
3mo ago
Here I go feeling smug again.
Out of curiosity, what was the content of the comment you were replying to? It's been deleted.
FtttG
6mo ago
Well, it's rather pointless trying to discuss the merits of a particular work of art with someone who hasn't experienced it, surely.
FtttG
6mo ago
For some reason leftists tend to consider shaming and social pressure as completely irrelevant factors of the environment. I've brought this up in discussions on reddit, that maybe "fat-shaming" actually effectively helps people maintain a healthy weight, and this idea is usually met with disdain. However, leftists are highly inconsistent on this point, as they surely believe shaming people for racism to be highly effective and critical in stopping racism.
Funnily enough, I made a similar point about a year ago:
Fat acceptance activists, as a group, do not acknowledge any social influences on their condition whatsoever. Hence all the hysterical caterwauling about how diets don't work and teasing fat people just makes them sad and I'm just big-boned and so on and so forth. I suspect quite a lot of fat acceptance activists wouldn't even recognise the joke in the meme above, they literally believe that diet and nutrition have zero impact, none, on how much you weigh. In the woke framework, genes may not determine how smart you are, or strong, or fast, or your career goals, or who you like to have sex with - but they damn sure determine whether you're a size 16 or an 8.
Well, obviously there were no holy wars (in the sense of intra-Christian wars) prior to the Reformation. Why would you start a holy war with someone who believes in the same creed you do? It's tautological.
FtttG
6mo ago
Whatever the underlying reason for it, I think if you want to argue that Country X is more dangerous than Country Y (because of the different policies/demographic makeup/policing approach in the two countries) - your argument falls at the first hurdle if Country Y is actually more dangerous than Country X.
Would Ireland have a lower murder rate if we allowed in fewer immigrants from certain countries? Almost certainly yes. Doesn't change the fact that Ireland's current murder rate with its current population constitution has a lower murder rate than Romania.
FtttG
6mo ago
Why do they only use the Cathedral in reference to the "distributed conspiracy" of left-leaning academia, news media etc.? Why, to the best of my knowledge, is there no equivalently ominous term in NRx circles for conservative lobby groups, the Koch brothers etc.?
The story above, coupled with:
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Trump's weird habit of openly lusting over his own daughter
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Trump's ex-wife accusing him of rape
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Trump's second wife almost certainly being unfaithful to him
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Trump's current wife's obvious distaste for him
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Trump paying a porn star to have sex with him, along with his numerous other extra-marital affairs during at least two of his marriages
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Trump Jr. getting embroiled in a messy divorce and custody battle
Maybe your idea of "political material" is a vicious coke-addled rapist, with such a short temper that he has been convicted for physically assaulting a fifty-year-old man for the crime of refusing a glass of whiskey he offered him. It is not mine.
which implies he's part of some sort of organisation, which is definitely not progressive.
It's called a "gang".
FtttG
9mo ago
I don't understand what you mean by "intentional mistake". I understand the concept of doing the wrong thing just for the sake of spiting your enemies. I understand the concept of doing what you thought was the right thing (morally or epistemically) at the time, but later coming to realise you were wrong. But I don't know what "intentional mistake" means in the context in which you're using it.
FtttG
9mo ago
I'm well aware that modern Western comics are aggressively woke and go out of their way to be inclusive towards LGBTQ people in an extremely ham-fisted and unsubtle way. That's not what I'm referring to. As I explained in my other comments, I'm referring to the phenomenon in which teenagers or recent adults consume anime/manga obsessively, and (for whatever reason) it starts them on the trans pipeline.
FtttG
9mo ago
Is anime that popular among older zoomers? I would've thought the default form of non-interactive entertainment among older zoomers would be American TV shows or streaming.
Update regarding the kerfuffle surrounding Biden declaring March 31st the Trans Day of Visibility. Zero Hedge reports that Biden himself has no recollection of doing so.
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