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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


A mother who does all the same things because ... or because she wants to live out her glory days vicariously is not




Isn't vicariously experiencing sexual activities via your child rather explicitly using them for your own sexual pleasure?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I do think they are getting sexual pleasure from it, and further that it is not recognized as sexual specifically due to the sexist notion that women are pure.  It is much the same as an exhibition fetish in my mind, but leeching off the attention directed at their daughters rather than at themselves.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I worry that most visitors here would be far more strongly repulsed.




It might be good to take a moment to consider why TheMotte even exists before demanding more charity for progressives around here.  This website is by my count the third exile for those of us with views that are widely seen, primarily by progressives, as repulsive.  I think it behooves you to explicitly address that history before making such an argument yet again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Please provide evidence that it is not extended to all groups.  EDIT: Evidence that attacks on progressives are uniquely tolerated at a level beyond that of any other group.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It doesn't even need to be criticism.  Simply having gender dysphoria and and saying "this is not the place for me" because the narratives don't line up with your own personal experiences is also apparently toxic to the movement in the eyes of at least some of its members.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The only thing that struck me in the trailer was that they kept the red hair. So it doesn't matter that Ariel has switched from white to black, but the hair colour is the absolutely vital thing about her? Not that she's a mermaid? Why not simply let the character/actress have her normal black hair? That's the dumb part of it for me. "Ariel's skin colour doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with the character, but she must have red hair because how else are the kids going to recognise her as the mermaid princess?"




Maybe to attempt to "address" a relatively common trope about Black actors/actresses in roles where the character was traditionally white?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Boys may underperform relative to girls but struggling on the classroom to some extent suggests an IQ problem, not a sex differences problem




Or there's a bias in grading...:




Teachers are more lenient in their marking of girls' schoolwork, according to an international study.










An OECD report on gender in education, across more than 60 countries, found that girls receive higher marks compared with boys of the same ability.










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When it comes to teachers' marking, the study says there is a consistent pattern of girls' work being "marked up".










It suggests that "teachers hold stereotypical ideas about boys' and girls' academic strengths and weaknesses".










Teachers are said to reward "organisational skills, good behaviour and compliance" rather than objectively marking pupils' work.








				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the point of this stunt is that conservatives are more upset about the non-monetary costs involved, namely the destruction of their local culture.  It is the same arguments that liberals make about colonialization and gentrification, except applied to cultures that liberals don't like.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If they're putting woke stuff in shows, it may be possible that like many a show-biz member, they've fully been subsumed into the successor ideology and calling them "mormon" is a stretch.




It seems far more likely to me that their personal beliefs had little to do with it and they wrote in whatever Amazon's audience analysis told them they needed to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That might make sense if 100% of the people living in Massachusetts "support illegal immigration and welcome them" and 100% of the people living in Arizona don't, but I somewhat doubt it is quite that black and white.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wouldn't Rosenbaum's verbal threats, eg "if I catch any of you f**kers alone, I’ll f**king kill you," combined with his "starting the altercation" when he encountered Rittenhouse alone later in the night make it much easier in at least Rosenbaum's case?  If not, that seems like a gaping hole in the law that desperately needs to be fixed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Easier? Sure. But nevertheless, not easy.




Keeping in mind that I'm not a lawyer, I'm rather confused by this assertion as I would naively expect 939.48(2) to be saying that Rosenbaum would pretty clearly have not been entitled to self-defense had he killed Rittenhouse in the encounter.  I'm not sure if my confusion stems from not understanding the legalities or from a different understanding of the hypothetical (or something else), so I'll try to explain my reasoning.


My assumptions about the hypothetical are that Rosenbaum threatened Rittenhouse and his party with "if I catch any of you f**kers alone, I’ll f**king kill you," earlier in the night and this can be easily shown with witness testimony; that Rosenbaum initiated the encounter by assaulting Rittenhouse as shown in the video footage; that Rittenhouse fled, then turned and shot at Rosenbaum when cornered, again as shown in the video footage; and that Rosenbaum somehow killed Rittenhouse "in self-defense" immediately after.  My expectation is that 939.48(2)(c) applies and should be easy to prove given the evidence for this chain of events.  939.48(2)(b) clearly doesn't apply since there was no disengagement.  It's hard for me to see how 939.48(2)(a) would apply given Rosenbaum could have escaped at any time.  What am I missing?


EDIT: Fixed formatting of quote.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is the mindset of considering "let others get theirs once you got yours" a virtue that alien?




Is the mindset of "if the privileges of being the default are being systematically eliminated by people who are Special, shouldn't the privileges of being Special be eliminated as well" that evil?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The claims I usually see are that spending more money (and thus, presumably more food) feeding men than women is discriminatory, with the implication that this contributes to performance differences.  For example (emphasis mine):




But he said the university failed to show it’s in full compliance with Title IX relating to travel and per diem, and needs to update its policies to ensure equal treatment for both men’s and women’s teams.










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Schreiner said they’re working on travel and per diem policies and hope to submit a plan to the court within the next few weeks.










It will cover how frequently teams travel by bus or plane, how far they travel, hotel stays and per diem for meals.








				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Witches in this community's context are include racists, sexists, bigots, etc. The kind of people who really do want the freedom to publicly declare their hatred for others.




Witches in this community's context are just people with whom members of the blue tribe are embarrassed to be associated, which is a much larger set than you describe.  The ur-example is people who want the freedom to publicly declare their love for others rather than their hatred...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Demand that lesbians have sex with them because "a female penis is not the same as a male penis".




Of course, lesbians see nothing wrong with demanding access to the output of the penis (ie, sperm) without having deal with the penis itself or the person attached to it.  I have trouble bringing myself to care that they are being criticized for not wanting sex with trans women with penises while feeling entitled to subsidized procreation without sex with people with penises.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But demanding womens category be opened up to biological men, while claimining it is "exclusionary" to refuse to do so, is like calling discrimation that a 25 year old agefluid person isn't allowed to compete in a U15 tournament.




Similarly, claiming it is discriminatory to reward athletes in the open men's tournament better than athletes in the restricted women's category is like calling it discrimination that a 14-year old doesn't get the same rewards for winning a U15 tournament that a 25-year old gets for winning the open.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Like pedophiles, the former are thankfully rare.




I think pedophilia is quite a bit more common than cannibalism, unless you start counting things like communion or chewing ones nails as cannibalism.  For instance, the BBC quotes an estimated prevalence at 1% of the adult male population.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's important to keep in mind that the term "porn" in the US is often used to refer to material that isn't strictly pornographic and sometimes not even sexualized.  The stereotype of us being a bunch of prudes exists for a reason.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The same can, and often is, said of circumcision though: if circumcision is traditional in your culture, then not getting circumcised will make you different.  Being different often causes emotional distress, both due to internal feelings of not fitting in and external harassment.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I'm 5'8, and yet I think all of the transwomen I've met in real life, except for one very spindly 6'3 transwoman with an unfortunate facial disfigurement, have been shorter than me. (Apparently there are actual studies of transwomen in Thailand that suggest they are shorter, on average, than cis men even when transitioning post-puberty). The reason, of course, is obvious - instead of spending a lifetime at the bottom of the male social hierarchy, some men opt-out. They quit. They say 'fuck you, I'm leaving'. And they become women.




A more obvious reason to me would be shorter people being more likely to actually transition than taller people because being short is an advantage for "passing".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If that were truly the case then how do you explain the "HST vs AGP" controversy?  One of the major distinguishing features of the AGP categorization was "sudden" late transitioning of a person who by all outward appearances was succeeding at performing the male gender role, with many considering them not truly trans because of that extended performance, leading in turn to a huge controversy that eventually discredited the categorization itself.  I think anxiety around passing due to that history is a far better explanation for your observations than petty concerns about social standing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Between feelings of not fitting in and harassment, I'd personally say the former is more common.  On the harassment front, the majority of the women I've had sexual experiences with commented negatively on the fact that I was uncut, viewing it as unclean.  On the not fitting in front, the biggest challenge isn't so much the circumcision itself as the cognitive dissonance with other issues.  For instance, seeing friends take seriously feminist arguments that men expressing preferences for shaved genital hair is wrong while knowing they see no issue with women expressing preferences for circumcised penises.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


For those who can't afford it, do you have any concerns about making liberty conditional on wealth?




Yes, but I'd take making liberty conditional on wealth over making it conditional on the court's subjective opinion of how much of a risk I am which is almost certainly going to be contaminated by assumptions about my immutable characteristics.  If it is conditional on wealth, I can at least try to acquire wealth to mitigate those concerns.  What do I do to mitigate "Your demographic is more risky, tough luck."?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I can acquire it before I am accused of a crime however.  I can also ask others to raise money on my behalf.  Both of these are at least theoretically possible for everyone.  I agree it is far from the ideal, but it is in my mind strictly superior to simply leaving it up to the court's subjective beliefs.