KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
The absence of specific articles is probably due to the effect documented in The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons. You noticed what was Actually Being Said, not the literal words on the screen.
Here is an eleven-year-old reddit thread that mentions the phenomenon (written by a woman asking why men don't give up), so what you're describing is something that definitely existed at the time you're talking about:
However, if women are going to pretty much shut down every avenue for approaching them (bars ["I just want to hang out with my friends"], clubs ["I just want to dance!"], bookstores ["Don't interrupt my reading!"], grocery stores ["I HAVE to go here, don't bother me."], classes/workshops ["I'm here to learn, only!"], etc), what avenues ARE available for meeting women organically (eg. not via dating website/match-makers)?
There's also this classic compare-and-contrast of the headlines of Jessica Valenti's opinion pieces.
KingOfTheBailey
6d ago
Seems like a cross between The Toxoplasmosa of Rage (Musk is more toxoplasma than man, now), and that quote from The Dark Knight:
Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, we'll give Lockheed-Martin another few billion dollars for nothing, or a flight of scientists will be left stranded in orbit by Boeing, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when Musk says that his not-so-little rockets will get us to Mars, well then everyone loses their minds.
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