empathicillegal
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empathicillegal
4mo ago
Why are all the participants women? Why are they all White?
I thought the commercial was supposed to be a professional recording of her actual friend group. Is it so shocking that her friends (at least those willing to be on camera for this kind of thing) were exclusively white women?
(I remember seeing that commercial on TV for the first time - had a definite "WTF am I watching?" moment.)
empathicillegal
6mo ago
Just saw it myself. Didn't love it but if it hadn't been a musical I would have said it was "good". An amazing piece of art that just wasn't that enjoyable to watch. In contrast I'd put the first movie at "great", no qualifications.
I don't really get the "dunking on incels" critiques. Like who came out of the first movie identifying with Joker?
empathicillegal
7mo ago
This ignores how much women's agency has increased over the last 100 years. It might have always looked like a bad idea to bear kids but they didn't have much of a choice.
Your point is more interesting if you use it to extrapolate into the future
- There will be humans in the future
- This means babies are being born
- Natural selection means groups averse to having kids are going going gone
- Does this mean (most of) the remaining women will have had their status downgraded to ancient times (or modern cultures that maintain high birth rates) or we will have invented artificial wombs, or we will have changed the incentive structure sufficiently, or other?
empathicillegal
7mo ago
Yup yup yup from one of those "married with children". I also model drug addiction as a contagion and it is clear to me that my own kids are better off if fentanyl is as prevelant as possible up until they reach the age where they might be exposed to it. And this is even moreso thanks to local decriminalization efforts - if you can't get junkies off the street with jail what's left?
empathicillegal
8mo ago
Hawaii has the highest average UV index of US states; I propose that this means that they have the purest sun and thus the highest quality vitamin D.
(I can only guess at what this question is asking but I'm sure my answer doesn't help.)
empathicillegal
9mo ago
Some posters are so consistently low-value that it is a waste of time to read anything they write (and usually the discussions the provoke). Gotta protect my time!
That being said, blocks on the motte (as far as I can recall) result in very disjointed threads and so I no longer attempt to block anyone here.
empathicillegal
9mo ago
I have a cousin who is pretty far down a FtM transition and I regularly feel uneasy over not having made at least a token effort to... I dunno, present alternative solutions to their unhappiness? This is of course predicated on my bias towards assuming a high probability that transitioning will be regretted at some later point in life. And I really don't know if I could have had that discussion without causing massive family drama.
Best of luck to you and your sister!
I have no idea if this is plausible but it was very fun to read. Well done, you earned those drinks.
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