sun_the_second
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Rape is an extreme. I'm not about to revive the debate of whether it's about lust or about power, but it's clearly an opportunistic act. You don't pick whoever's most attractive, you pick whoever's most vulnerable/available.
The poster above is talking about weirdness, which is a more tame and regular thing that doesn't need to factor vulnerability in as much (it is less heavily prosecuted and the men have fewer reasons to believe they're committing an immoral act in the first place). Safe to assume that weirdness would be more correlated to attractiveness than rape.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I do want to drive my car wherever I want.
sun_the_second
2d ago
If you call "briefly acted against my interests" "be my enemy", sure.
This kind of mindset looks like it either leads to finding out what it really is like to have everyone surrounding you turn on you (once you schiz out on Stacy for trying to "assassinate" you), or eventually landing in the madhouse because the cognitive dissonance between thinking Bob wants to kill you yet not acting like he wants to kill you can't be easy on the mind.
As the Putin meme goes, "if the fight is imminent, strike first. How to determine if a fight is imminent? Once you've struck first, it is."
sun_the_second
1d ago
Visiting brothels sounds like failing at the social role of a husband to me.
And if it's fine because husbands weren't expected to be as faithful as wives, then this is again evidence of inequality.
sun_the_second
1d ago
People play roguelikes, including the ones that take dozens of hours per run, and it is my impression that most of them don't rewind (if only because it's inconvenient to constantly backup the savefile).
I'd expect players who don't like irreversible consequences to simply not play the game.
sun_the_second
3d ago
What kind of rituals do you think were there for confirming "eligibility", and what was the cutoff point? Are we talking "bullet ant mittens"?
It is my impression that many obviously "ineligible" (by modern and premodern standards) men successfully reproduced in the premodern era, because opportunities for women to be anyone but a wife were either incredibly scarce or worse than a subpar husband.
sun_the_second
2d ago
How does "more choice in a videogame" map to "wheels come off"???
sun_the_second
3d ago
You say that like jumping into a long-term relationship is trivial. It looks like the first stage of that plan still involves finding a woman willing to go on a date with you and have it go beyond treating her to dates ad infinitum.
sun_the_second
10d ago
Calling a specific subsection of women unrapeable is a pretty clear implication that you consider other subsections acceptable to rape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule#Proving_the_existence_of_the_rule
It's not rocket science. Sure, it would't hold up in a decent court, but "acktchyually I said I wouldn't even rape her, why are you upset" isn't fooling anyone.
sun_the_second
23d ago
Recording a public assembly is harassment now? I am having serious trouble imagining you apply the same standard towards any situation where your sympathies are reversed.
sun_the_second
12d ago
This makes zero sense.
What do you honestly think is the "function" of Mohammad pictures? I say it's "antagonizing Muslims and rallying anti-Islamists". There's no such thing as "technically isn't a picture of Mohammad" that magically makes a Muslim think it's okay.
In contrast, sticking it to the vegans is clearly not the only, or even the primary function of eating real meat.
I don't believe you don't see the difference, so spill the real point you're trying to make.
sun_the_second
10d ago
You can treat them as if they'd made an overly spicy joke, and they'll wear it as a mark of pride. Or you can put them through the wringer so they'll think better next time. I don't think the second option is more laughable.
sun_the_second
15d ago
without the corresponding duty to be drafted into a war they voted themselves into, something we see in Ukraine today
It sounds like a very American thing, to assume that all wars are something you vote yourself into.
sun_the_second
10d ago
Grandpas typically don't live as long. That's a larger factor towards why grandmas represent the covid-endangered family member than increased respect towards grandmas, I think.
sun_the_second
15d ago
Hell isn't unfair. We deserve it.
How does anyone who isn't born a pathological misanthrope come to believe this?
sun_the_second
12d ago
Yes.
sun_the_second
23d ago
HBD explains this far better than socioeconomic factors.
HBD doesn't, in fact, explain why high IQ black people do worse than high/mid IQ white people. To my knowledge most HBD theory proposes that IQ is fully general, and higher average IQ should correlate with more pro-social, civilized behaviour in general - I've seen no theory for a separate "criminality gene" being fleshed out.
"Identifying with a criminal culture", on the other hand, does explain rather well why high-IQ black people are disproportionately likely to go to prison, for me at least. (I know that criminal culture exists. I know that if you act according to criminal culture, you're more likely to go to prison than if you acted according to prosocial culture, IQ being the same. I do not, however, know if there is a criminality gene orthogonal to IQ.) This is without going into the anti-black racism theory.
sun_the_second
23d ago
There have always been some Jews who’d rather not be part of the Jewish community. Some succeed, and we never hear of them as Jews again.
Of course, the Early Life always remembers.
sun_the_second
26d ago
I do believe women can be interesting as people to men. It's just that, without sexual attraction in play, they have to compete with the other men on that front.
Maybe women find it naturally harder because they aren't interested in the same things as men to connect with them platonically as well as their male friends. Maybe most women never learn to be interesting due to having sexual attraction on their side. When I match with a woman on a dating app and see an empty bio or something that barely provides any hooks for a conversation, I am certainly overcome with an intense wave of apathy, no matter how hot she is.
sun_the_second
20d ago
I wouldn't take input on the way society should be organized from someone who's suicidally depressed for the same reason I wouldn't take any from those who place themselves at the apex of the proposed pyramid - clear conflict of interests with not only myself but the majority.
sun_the_second
23d ago
In both of those examples, you've added implicitly threatening traits to the "trespasser" (a cop protected and abetted by the power of the state; "desiring to record all of their faces") that weren't as present in the original scenario.
sun_the_second
9d ago
It's not random. It's a popular phrase being shifted.
sun_the_second
10d ago
By that logic the serfs were the most prestigious caste of medieval society, because food, unlike swords and castles, is actually necessary for society.
That was not so and isn't so still. Neither was motherhood.
sun_the_second
1mo ago
I don't agree with this psychoanalysis. Cuphead has an easy mode, Devil May Cry games have an easy mode, Touhou games have an easy mode. In none of those games' communities does anyone boast of completing the game on easy mode. If there's any chase for social cachet, you're essentially calling those people very delusional because there is no cachet in beating ezmodo. Instead, the normal mode or higher (depending on how sweaty normal mode is) becomes the socially accepted "real completion".
Some people just want to experience [some fraction of] the game's mechanics and beat the final boss and not watch it on Youtube. There isn't any more social aspect in that than idly swiping gems in a 3 in a row game on the train.
If being a john was seen as (relatively) normal yet prostitutes were pariahs, then this parallel practice of cad-shaming wasn't as prevalent as slut-shaming, and the feminists are justified in leaving it unsaid.
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