Tanista
22d ago
For many maybe. I think Aella has earned the presumption of sincerity.
I think she means "open relationship"
Tanista
22d ago
If you're top percentile and can trivially attract casual sex from other women, then it has an appeal again even if not everybody will go for it.
In certain subcultures, being in this level means you feel you don't need an open relationship; you can just a) cheat or b) enforce a one-sided/Islamic polyamory model. It certainly doesn't mean "complicate my life by having someone sleep with my wife".
Much more common in the entertainment and athletic fields than the ones Aella frequents so she has that going for her I guess.
Women shouldn't have a say in foreign policy if it's not them who will be sent to die over it.
You don't need to be sent anywhere. For most countries that aren't America or nestled under it or someone else's nuclear umbrella the consequences of bad foreign policy can find you at home.
Bad German foreign policy, for example, let to the widespread rape of German women when the Soviets came to collect.
Tanista
29d ago
I would say gay marriage in the USA. That is when crybulling really really picked up and people started seeing the USA as just a set of ill gotten spoils that needed to be redistributed.
Gay marriage seems to be the least zero-sum of the progressive causes (arguably deliberately selected to be that way) and it's much younger than the drive for racial or class based redistribution.
As a layman I think David is usually where both more conservative and more skeptical scholars can agree we can start looking for historicity. Some others push it till the Omrides but I think it's hard to argue that the mythicist side wouldn't have used the lack of anything like a stele as an argument so what's good for the goose and all that.
I guess I'm more of a mainstreamer here: things like the Exodus and Patriarchs seem like a total mess historically. Even if you grant there is some historic core you'll never agree on what it is. David's time seems like a good enough point to say the figures in the Bible have slipped out of myth.
I have seen some of Baden's interviews online, and read his Composition of the Pentateuch which is why I picked up the book. It's early days but I tend to lean towards what I think is Baden's own conclusion: there's a lot more explaining things in a more flattering light in David's legend than you'd expect if he didn't exist.
Which makes a good contrast with the show.
Why is horror the exception to the theater recession? SW is underperforming right now but another horror movie is overperforming. It's been this way for a while, a lot of the surprise hits are A24/indie-style horror films.
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