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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Also, didn't the old stuff end up rotting after a few years?  You don't need to build athletic shoes to last forever when they're going to be worn out in 6 months or a year.  But you can't keep the interest of a collector community when the collections literally falls to pieces in half a decade.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; no one says the individual.




Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sorry.  I didn't save anything and I don't know how to slip past search enslopification anymore.  If I stumble across it again, I'll share.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Based on September polling.  Which, last cycle in some of those important states, undershot Republican performance by 6-12%.


But who knows.  Maybe this will finally be the election where the polling was accurate and not a targeted psyop to demoralize GOP voters understandably and accidentally mistaken all the time in the exact same direction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There are purportedly videos of her, now that her name and socials have leaked, showing that she looked pretty jacked for a woman.  One of the fun speculations I've heard is that she was on T supplements for athletic/training reasons, and that's why she had a sex drive to fuck multiple frat boys into dry-heaving catatonia.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Foreseeable to you, the adult, worldly motte-poster.  To a 20 year old raised in an environment of sex-positive, "sex is just about feeling good and nothing else" consent feminism?  The girl herself seems to have thought she was doing something brave and good.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But after that, they started texting each other about "free pussy."




Was there more than just the one guy saying that in one text?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If we're doing pure physiognomy, Talarico looks like the physical vessel of an evil spirit.  Something about the eyes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
AIUI, she went to the police 2-3 weeks later.  In between, she purportedly texted with some of the guys involved, planning the next threesome and saying that the people slut-shaming her were just jealous, that this was just what modern liberated women were like and it was going to become more normalized.


Then the frat president (I think the same guy who tried to shut down the events the night in question) told her she wasn't allowed to come to the Halloween party and then she went to the police to claim rape.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's more the "10 shrimp matter more than a human toddler because pretend math".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Sex pests: they have weird sexuality but seem to respect consent and don’t seem to bother people outside broadcasting themselves, so I don’t see how they’d be “pests”




Being very charitable, this may be a "suffering from success" situation.  Those circles seem to take sex pest issues very seriously.  Alternatively phrased, they seem frequently riven with bloodbath infighting over sex pest scandals.  It is possible that, like the Boy Scouts, their sincere and well above average efforts to tackle the Sex Pest Problem means the issue appears vastly more salient than among other comparable subcultures.


Being very charitable, of course.  Being more realistic, autistic sex-positive dorks are going to attract sociopaths like flies to shit.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Yeah, people know it's a joke. It's generally seen as an incredibly poor taste joke though or at the very least one that fails to read the room.




It's particularly dumb because there's plausible reason to think Vance at least had read Scott back in the day.  I feel like 2014 Scott would have noticed the opportunity, and taken advantage of the audience to make a reasoned, decently-targeted pitch.  But modern Scott would lose his polycule if he published "An Open Letter to Whichever of You Fuckers Is JD Vance", so, alas.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah.  The only reason I got to MT as a bear was because my IRL friends and I founded a guild, and I earned the trust doing heroic 5 mans in TBC with them before we got to the raids.  It helped that among the double-handed lot of them there was like 1.5 healers and then a whole mess of mages, warlocks and hunters, so there was no real competition for the slot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


and after that it went into non-consensual territory.




The guys were drunk and on ketamine too.  Some of her descriptions of the end indicate that they were worse off than her.  Did she rape them?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I did Bear in TBC.  It was fine most of the time.  There were some fights where it was straight better.  But too many important fights had Warrior specific mechanics.  Does Illidan still functionally require the ability to block?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


National discussions concerning the prevalence of sexual violence on college campuses often define such violence as including experiences of nonconsensual penetration (including attempted penetration) and/or sexual touching that involves physical force and/or incapacitation. We have expanded that definition to explicitly list unwanted choking or strangulation as a form of nonconsensual
sexual contact.




Huh.  You are very correct.  I would like to amend my previous snarky comment.  I am no longer being facetious.  Cornell University should be shut down, and the people responsible for it's operations charged with assorted relevant crimes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Pretty sure that one dropped the bar as low as "Have you ever felt pressured?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Cornell recently released survey results claiming that 35% of female undergraduates reported non-consensual sexual contact in the last year (it will not take long for anyone here reviewing this survey to spot many issues). Given the apparent epidemic of such behavior, it would seem time to return to universities having far more control over student behavior to keep those students safe.




More like time to shut down Cornell University and bring charges against everyone responsible for its operations.  Cornell is more dangerous for women than an African nation in a civil war where rape is being specifically and broadly used as a weapon!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The point is to needle them about this fact and highlight their hypocrisy to onlookers.




That can sort of, maybe, sometimes work when you're citing actual principles, like questioning the compassion of a Christian, or pointing out when a progressive is being racist and sexist.  And it still mostly fails because real ideologies have already grappled with those topics.  The Christian will say that forgiveness requires repentence so they can fully condemn unrepentant evildoers; the progressive will say that they feel like a scrappy underdog so their hatred is righteous.


Scott's post is mostly very defensive snark on trite descriptors, except for the compassion thing which is already fatally undercut in that he's making that argument on behalf of people who are half a step away from being Nurgle worshippers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It doesn't seem to me like there is a reasonable expectation that making a blog post that an obviously false autobiography is, in fact, false would lead to retribution.




In a free country?  No.


In Europe?  ...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Samples, maybe not.  Over the course of a whole book?  I feel pretty confident.  Might ping HereandGone and ask if she can recommend a few mystery novels to test the theory.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the biggest tell is how they focus on people, on the relations between them.  Men and women have different ways of assessing the men and women around them, different ways of relating to the same and opposite sex.




the biggest tell is simply that men tend to depict both men and women like stereotypical men (e.g. stoic and rational) or women like children




This is another huge one, especially in the field of pseudonym-cloaked online writing.  In theory, I know literally nothing about author CoffeeBacon666, but in practice their female main character is just an autistic dude in a dress with some childish affections.


I could see myself being more confused in a genre I was less familiar with.  It would be interesting to take on a challenge like "Read these three mystery writers.  All have male names, but some of them are actually female writers.  Can you figure it out?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's the intersection of athleticism and upper-class coding.  Think of the stereotype of a desirable man from a romance novel.  Tall, handsome, rich, jacked, with the arrogance and domineering attitude that results.  Get a lacrosse all-star bit by a werewolf and he's basically the ideal man to a large portion of the women in America.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You know what'll fix the birthrate crisis?  Criminalizing Netflix for young parents.  And books, too, probably.


Yes, there's a point where ignoring your kid while mechanically caring for them is a problem, but infants spent a lot of time being uninteractive and holding them is pretty much all you need to be doing.


WoW also has a lot of interesting colors and shapes for a toddler to look at while they sit on Daddy's lap and watch him tank Illidan.  Important lessons to absorb about leadership, coordination, and internet/chan culture, too.


It's a bit of a personal topic for me.  I literally met her mother on WoW, and it took a while to unravel us from the guild I led after real life took precedence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Case in point for how similar woman and men are: from their writing, art, etc. you may guess right well over 50%, but it's impossible to reliably infer someone's sex. Multiple famous novelists and mangakas have been women who wrote under men's names, and anecdotally, I've heard multiple women surprised that their favorite fanfiction's author is male.




Eh, I feel like it's more 80-90% reliable.  Men and women consistently focus on different little details.  I can only think of one example where I was genuinely unsure, though admittedly I can't know if I've ever been totally fooled.