The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
12m ago
Plenty of Indians and Pakistanis own and/or run the convenience stores here too, hence the Apu character on the Simpsons; Koreans doing it are a local thing in some areas.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15m ago
You're mixing things up a bit; the depressed places don't have the high housing prices and until the next advance of the progressives, we're still America where even (or especially!) the poor eat meat.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19hr ago
But these hidebound traditional cultures have mostly not survived. And not so much because of rebellion by the youth, but in many cases because the parents WANTED their sons (and later daughters) to escape and sent them off to college. I can't even conceive of such a culture in today's world without it being an unfit anachronism.
Every time I hear it, all I can think is, why in the world would anyone think that young men are going to continue listening to this, taking it seriously, and accepting its authority?
Same reason they accepted the authority of the patriarch in patriarchal cultures. Because they have no choice. Actually, they did have ONE other choice in patriarchal culture -- they could leave the culture, go it alone or perhaps form groups of other disaffected young men. This was known as being an outlaw, and it rarely turned out well. You can't actually escape the culture by doing that in modernity.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
22hr ago
For men employed full time, median earnings are at about $68K, so yes. He also says you have to have 15 percent body fat, your own apartment with no roommates, and be highly intelligent and socially skillful. It's not quite 6-6-6, but it seems designed not to provide useful advice but to discourage. Not really surprising.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23hr ago
It isn't even to that level, though, at least not with the grant proposals. "By our rules we filled the grant proposals with language that favored us. Then you found that language and removed it or canceled the grants. HYPOCRITES!!!"
Atheism offers that too, without all the window dressing.
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