Mottizen
1yr ago
Still there's gonna be a bunch of cultural/behavioral confounders.
I don't doubt that there's a direct correlation effect, but I'd also be surprised if there wasn't a significant case of lower pre-marital partners amongst a plethora of cultural & religious groups who marry young and don't really divorce.
Mottizen
1yr ago
There's still stuff like PE/IB, but definitely making your fortune as a low-middle tier bank employee is increasingly unusual.
Mottizen
1yr ago
I think the issue is the intergender mismatch and the casual sex thing that stops direct alignment.
Mottizen
1yr ago
Do modern women find Mormon men attractive? Women are the fundamental gatekeepers of sex in the vast majority of cases.
Mottizen
8mo ago
I feel like the debate around gender identity and the debate around surgical/medical intervention are almost two different things.
I'm personally pretty comfy with people identifying how they want, but I feel that the current iteration of hormonal & surgical intervention has a horrific risk-reward where it's like lifelong issues in exchange for maybe if you are a bodytype that's already leaning towards your preferred gender, being able to pass from a distance at certain angles.
This is going to sound intentionally absurd, but I'd almost prefer a world in which people just got their preferred gender pronouns tattooed onto their forehead and then everybody hypothetically just went along with it, than the current state of corrective therapy.
Mottizen
3mo ago
I can sort of see the argument in the sense of 'it is more likely that the Asian diaspora will take over in the next few decades than it is that African descendants will cause an issue'. However, most people are concerned more about the stability of their day-to-day existence. BAME immigration might not imperil the 'macro' as much, but has more everyday living consequences in terms of violent crime and people subsisting on handouts.
Mottizen
6mo ago
The pushback to it was also highly disproportionally Jewish.
How much of it is the Jewish idpol card kinda sticking you in a state of quasi-whiteness that allows rallying back against intersectionalism without getting immediately cancelled yourself, though?
Mottizen
1yr ago
I feel like there's a lot of truth to this but it's also phrased in a way that's needlessly antagonistic.
I do think the current situation is largely fueled by women misusing their natural leverage, but oh well that's life.
Mottizen
1yr ago
I had an incel phase but it was mostly related to obesity.
I lost the weight, can now pull pretty well but would still consider it hard to find a stable committed relationship with somebody who I'd consider real wife material, but I'm very aware I've got a stack of privileges that the vast majority of people don't (White, 6'3, muscular, 99th percentile income, blonde etc.) that can outweigh the mild autism and even that I've mostly eroded as a disadvantage through sheer repetition and scripting.
Mottizen
1yr ago
High speed rail, efficient ports
Are those technological issues or byproducts of Western bureaucracies and labor dynamics making it very hard to actually erect a best in class port/train infrastructure?
Mottizen
7mo ago
Yeah but if I've got a deck of 60 cards and I'm against a fast burn deck and I've got GAMEWINNER9000 (RRP $10,000) which instantly wins me the game if drawn in my deck, I haven't actually got that big a % of actually pulling that card in context of a single game.
Mottizen
11mo ago
Very aware of my privilege in this regard, my heart bleeds for friends who don't have the same combination of attributes and I feel kind of bad for not developing my romantic skillset earlier
Mottizen
1yr ago
Taste of alcohol takes some getting used to, and some people are just super low tolerance initially.
Mottizen
1yr ago
Yeah. Floyd argument for negligence but I can also see how the arresting officer could have done it unintentionally. Opposed to gangbeating a restrained man.
Mottizen
1yr ago
No as in 'things that make you more likely to be a felon also make you less likely to be a voter'
Mottizen
1yr ago
Are felons less likely to vote demographically, though? Wild speculation but I'd imagine a variety of factors that correlate with felonious inclination are anti-correlated with voting.
Mottizen
23d ago
NCAA is no longer the default pathway to the NBA with overseas professional leagues, G-League and 1-and-done college stints all becoming more prevalent in the last 5 years. Plus the internationalization of Basketball means there's way more overseas talents.
It's hard to cultivate star power in College Basketball as a consequence, and in the meantime a lot of the Blue Blood programs are struggling which increases volatility and decreases interest.
Mottizen
23d ago
It's funny the WNBA can't capitalize on WNCAA interest when the latter is a feeder to the former (admittedly a lot of charismatic WNCAA players will go from being superstars in that arena to middling in the pro leagues, but still)
Mottizen
3mo ago
They have been out of the game so long that they don't realize that a 30+ woman, possibly with kids, is simply not going to command the same sort of attention, especially with newer models on the showroom floor.
I think you're overhyping this a bit. Many is the couple where the guy suggests an open relationship, not realizing that even their middle-aged wife/partner commands about 50,000x the desirability in the hookup market even if things have evened out a lot in the longterm partner market.
Mottizen
1yr ago
True, and it's multi-faceted.
The girls I met who I was super-enthused about probably saw me as being towards the lower end of their prospects (assuming that attractiveness is the same for everybody), thereby creating a mismatch.
Like if I'm a Male 6/10 who's getting normally distributed dates at an average of say a Female 4.5/10 (since inherent gender gap), I'm gonna look like a great prospect to my 3/10's who I'm not gonna want and I'm gonna see the fellow occasional 6/10 as a great lead but not get the same enthusiasm in return since their dating range will have some 8/10's.
Mottizen
1yr ago
I'd say 3 or 4 where I had instantaneous 'I would marry this woman' vibes, probably 15ish where I was like down for a second date. Still ticking with some of those.
I started from a pretty low place in terms of attractiveness so a lot of the early ones were just dealing with some combination of obesity, weak English skills (very multicultural society) or lack of a real lifepath which spaced them.
The contradictions around pregnancy/abortion in the Liberal mind are interesting for this.
I'd wager a plurality of Liberals would be against Hammon being asked to terminate her pregnancy for the sake of her contract/consider her right to get pregnant to be superior to her professional commitment. Yet if a random 'girlboss' was to abort a pregnancy due to prioritizing career it'd likely be seen as empowering.
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