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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And the proper progressive response to such generic complaints by young women should be "You want equality, you get fucking equality.  Men don't get protection from your unwanted advances, so suck it up."  EDIT: But no, these women want the protective benefits of conservative social and sexual norms without the restrictions.  They want the ability to exploit men's desires for them granted by progressive norms without the risk of men exploiting them in return.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				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 January 2, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Do you have similar feelings about revenge porn?  After all, if she didn't want those pictures out there, she shouldn't have had them taken in the first place.  I find it rather perverse that men who engage in oral sex with condoms are considered to be freely giving "a gift — an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee", so have no legal recourse should she decide to use the sperm to later artificially inseminate herself and burden him with responsibility for a child while women who consent to recording sexual activities are protected from his later use of said recordings.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How much do you think it costs to prevent trace contamination from a fairly common ingredient in other products?  Your options are effectively 1) extremely thorough cleaning, 2) completely separate production facilities, or 3) stop making either the products with sesame or those without.  Option 3 is by far the cheapest and there's apparently more demand for products with sesame than without.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think some people use the 'one drop rule' for determining whether or not a forum is a white nationalist forum.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But it still just leaves me scratching my head when I see the degree to which women are shocked and disgusted when they learn that they're desired, since it shows that their mental model of the world was pretty damn off.




The women already know they're desired.  They are shocked and disgusted by the social faux pas of men confronting them with that desire when they aren't themselves interested.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 7, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If you get drunk and repeatedly call a man a "dick" we don't generally run a story about a "sexist outburst."




I expect that if you got drunk and repeatedly called a woman a "cunt" it would be considered a "sexist outburst" however.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I do not think one injustice justifies another. We can, and should, get rid of both.




Empty words.  Those pushing for gender equality have proven time and again that they only care about equality when women get the short end of the stick.  You need to prove that you will actually get rid of both here rather than stopping once you get the benefits (EDIT:) if you want to convince me to support you.




I don't understand this sentence. No amount of women "show[ing] off" justifies sexual assault or harassment.




The problem is that behavior by men towards women that is perceived as sexual assault or harassment isn't perceived as such when done by women toward men.  Men have to "justify" behaviors that women get to just do with no consequence.  Women showing off therefore either needs to be more restricted than men doing so or women need to put up with all the behaviors from men that men have to put up with from women.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
People's response to CP generally makes significantly more sense if you model it as a disgust reaction to the people who'd consume it rather than any true concern for children's wellbeing.  The fact that no children were harmed (EDIT:) in this case doesn't matter nearly as much as the fact that some creep is actually finding some enjoyment in life.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Having sex in a nightclub bathroom with an attractive stranger is the highlight of your life;




I realize I'm a bit of an outlier when it comes to sex, but does this really appeal to many straight men?  That sounds more like a nightmare to me and I didn't think I was that much of an outlier.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This lines up with my feelings quite well.  Yet another feminist who can't get over her perspective as a woman.  Particularly egregious in my mind is her paragraph on the domestic sphere:




Then there’s the domestic sphere. Last summer, a Psychology Today article caused a stir online by pointing out that “dating opportunities for heterosexual men are diminishing as relationship standards rise.” No longer dependent on marriage as a means to financial security or even motherhood (a growing number of women are choosing to create families by themselves, with the help of reproductive technology), women are “increasingly selective,” leading to a rise in lonely, single young men — more of whom now live with their parents than a romantic partner. Men also account for almost 3 of every 4 “deaths of despair,” either from a suicide, alcohol abuse or an overdose.




She spares no thought for the fact that while women are no longer dependent on marriage as a means to having a family, men are still very dependent on women and thus increasingly at their mercy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The key exchange happens around 2:39 when Robby says nobody is obligated to stand by and allow themselves to be victimized, and Brie emphatically insists yes you do.




I wonder if she'd be so quick to agree that women have an obligation to stand by and allow themselves to be victimized, eg was Cyntoia Brown in the wrong in her worldview?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


implying America is best represented by a white blonde athletic man?




Was best represented by a white blonde athletic man.  Steve Rogers was portrayed as a remnant of the past that didn't fit in in modern America.  Note also his symbolic passing of the torch to a "black athletic man" after returning to the past.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 2, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Regardless of anyone's level of sympathy for irresponsible mothers, there's no reason that they should get less sympathy than irresponsible fathers.




We generally grant less sympathy to those with more power over the situation.  We've decided to grant women more power than men over the decision to become parents (via abortion), so it stands to reason they should get less sympathy than men if they are irresponsible.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
At least some of the people complaining are too squeamish to handle such violent scenes of death, much like with suicide and slaughterhouses.  Death must be nice and clean so they aren't traumatized by it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The progressive movement that exists today is overwhelmingly sex negative: they are in favor of raising the age of consent (to 25), against age gaps, against workplace relationships, against flirting in public, or in bars, or everywhere except designated dating apps, against prostitution, against pornography (except onlyfans), against sex comedies, against sexy women in video games, against revealing clothing in movies.




The progressive movement that exists today can be summarized as "Straight male sexuality bad, everything else good!".  They are in favor of raising the age of consent, but deny that women actually need to get consent from men.  They are against age gaps, but deny behavior of older women toward younger men is sexual.  They are against men flirting with women unless the women desire it, but think women should be free to flirt with men whenever they wish.  They are against any media that panders to the sexual desires of straight men, but are okay with media that panders to the sexual desires of others.


"Sex positivity" has always been tied up in Feminism and thus has always only cared about ensuring sexual outcomes are positive for women.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This all assumes that she realizes this before abandoning her husband "to get a better deal".  The women I know who have done this didn't give up their high standards until after they left and learned it the hard way.  Choosing to leave a partner is often more an emotional decision than a rational one and a sudden drop in QoL isn't exactly conducive to rational thinking.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Second, what's up with nuclear waste? Specifically, if the waste is really a nothing burger, as I see argued often, why do I see (other) experts talking about how to communicate how bad it is to people 10k years in the future.  What are those other experts thinking and why are they wrong?




Nuclear waste isn't really a "nothing burger", but the stuff that they claim we'd need to warn people 10k years in the future about is about as dangerous as many toxic but non-radioactive industrial chemicals that we use all the time (ie, ingestion or long-term exposure is bad, but just being around it isn't too dangerous) without worrying about such long-term disposal.  Focusing on radioactive waste is therefore special pleading.  They will also usually not make this clear to people, letting their audience infer that the long-lived waste is actually much more dangerous than it is by emphasizing the more severe dangers of short-lived waste products.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I think the way this is usually handled is by defining the contours of the right such that they are not in conflict.




Well yes, and it is quite easy to frame "defining the contours of the right" as "taking away the right" when you think you should be entitled to different contours.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wouldn't care what progressives talk about if they also didn't come in and disrupt local government planning meetings, sabotaging years of bipartisan efforts that had been steadily making progress (eg, on topics like @what_a_maroon brought up) by being an intransigent minority insisting that any solution involve directly confronting racism and sexism.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Everyone just wants policing to be "just".  The problem is that not everyone agrees on how to make policing more "just" or even what "just" policing is.  The "pro-reform" block in the US currently claims that the primary reason that policing is unjust is racism and sexism, and thus focus on policies that they believe would reduce racism and sexism.  They also claim that white men, the largest demographic victimized by police malfeasance, categorically cannot be victims of racism or sexism.  They regularly erase them from narratives about justice reform (eg see my comment on the old site discussing declining white support for BLM) and strongly overestimate victimization of other groups.  Do you really think that alienating the largest group of victims by implying their victimization is "just", unlike the "unjust" victimization of other demographics, and downplaying their victimization while exaggerating others' "just isn't a factor"?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Louisiana's legal system is really weird by US standards, being (AFAIK) the only civil law jurisdiction in country.  I imagine at least part of the reason you get the impression you do from it is due to it having different failure modes than common law systems, making those failures stand out more.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's quite common that the exercising of one's rights infringes in some way on the rights of others.  Society then comes up with rules to balance the rights of one versus the other, usually putting some restrictions on both.  As an example, consider sexual harassment.  A man asserts his right to freedom of speech.  A woman asserts his exercising of that right infringes her right to not be subject to unwanted sexual stimulation.  Similarly, a woman asserts her right to wear whatever she wants.  A man asserts her exercising of that right infringes his right to not be subject to unwanted sexual stimulation.


EDIT: Grammar.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Should we let the police slide because MSN talked about the wrong cases too much?




The ways progressives talk about police reform to combat injustice make me believe that they think it is fine to "let police slide" when it is people like me who are impacted by it, that it is not actually injustice in that case.  If you want me to support your solution to "actual injustice", you damn well better prove to me that the injustices committed against my demographic are also going to be solved by it.  Progressives seem to go out of their way to avoid doing so and expect to gain my support solely through emotional blackmail.  Fuck that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 31, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Any thoughts on the really nice Japanese bidets? I miss them after having a taste of absolute asshole luxury.




I'll never forget the first time I went to the restroom at the University in Japan.  The first stall had the fanciest toilet I'd ever encountered, with a wall of buttons controlling among other things the bidet settings.  The second stall was just a trench in the floor.