Botond173
21hr ago
As someone who’s illiterate regarding pharmaceutics I do wonder what side effects Ozempic has.
Botond173
23hr ago
When researchers actually combed profiles on a bareback-centric site, the share of HIV-positive men actually trying to infect partners came out around 1 percent.
What is the practical difference between engaging in loads of casual homo sex and rejecting condom use because you’re sticking to the principle of not lowering yourself to such a laughable lame-ass normie norm as a proud gay man, and engaging in loads of casual homo sex and rejecting condom use because you’re a perverted psycho intending to infect other men with venereal diseases? Because I imagine the former practice is much, much more widespread than the latter.
Botond173
1d ago
I’d say they only get involved in a culture war matter when anyone is questioning, ridiculing, criticizing or delegitimizing women’s sexual choices and behavior.
BONUS ROUND, turns out the female journalist that wrote the puff piece about the gay pedophile couple wrote a response to the controversy. Accountability is nowhere to be found, but getting mad at American conservatives is! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-10/gorman-second-thoughts/4809582
She's also a Jewess with roots in present-day Slovakia and described on Wikipedia as a 'Australian social justice journalist'. Jokes are surely still just writing themselves.
Also the amount of gays that did not (and still don't, though anti-retrovirals have changed this somewhat) care about having and/or spreading AIDS gave and still gives a lot of people pause.
Another example was the so-called Patient Zero of the AIDS epidemic in the USA:
"Shilts interviewed epidemiologist Selma Dritz, who reported that in 1982, she informed Dugas that he was infecting other people, but he refused to cease having casual sex in spite of this."
Botond173
1d ago
I'd argue that it's romantic relationships between teenagers (normally between a teenage girl and a slightly older boy) that can be categorized as 'socially approved ephebophilia', as socially generally tolerates such sexual acts within certain limits. Society is also generally OK with male college students having relationships with 17/18-yr-old girls. Relationships between older male groomers and underage teen girls, on the other hand, are cases of socially not approved ephebophilia.
Botond173
1d ago
This won’t work because even the majority of moderate, normie-adjacent leftists have been exposed to lots of 3rd wave feminist messaging and are now wise to this tactic. They will dismiss this narrative as loser-coded and claim that instead of being motivated by noble ideals of meritocracy, legal equality and civic nationalism, you just want to advantage shitty, entitled, reactionary and sex-starved garbage human males because you see them as your anti-feminist ingroup.
Botond173
9d ago
It’s part of a larger false narrative that is in essence Awokening denial. Liberals will keep promoting the notion that the Great Awokening never existed, that it was all manufactured, exaggerated and misconstrued by evil MAGA propaganda.
Botond173
9d ago
Are you arguing that this is how Democrat politicians were actually behaving back then? I won't say the death itself was manufactured. The scandal, on the other hand, very much was, I think.
Botond173
9d ago
I'd like to add that there used to be many more male bloggers like him, roughly between 2006-2015 or so.
Botond173
9d ago
the great leap forward, the cultural revolution, and, my favorite, the four pests policy.
The local SJWs and ardent supporters of these policies, unlike in Western societies, were never permitted to grab structural control over social life after marching through the institutions, and were only deputized as mindless executors of the political moves of the supreme leader. Once he was dead, all power was stripped from them by his successors, they were suppressed and their legacy was undone under the official slogan of Setting Things Right. (I briefly described this period here on the old subreddit.) Due to political and cultural peculiarities I’m afraid this great feat is something that will never be achieved in any Western country. If anything of this sort will ever come to pass, it can only happen through bloodshed and complete collapse. In this sense, I think OP is right – the Chinese are doing it all better.
With respect to the one-child policy I think it needs to be pointed out in defense of the Chinese commies that pretty much everyone else in the world was falling for the same nonsense back then. The notion that runaway overpopulation was causing mass poverty, famine and wars seemed irresistible.
Botond173
10d ago
As far as Japan is concerned, I’m aware that the social concept of the idealized Japanese woman is established so well that there is even a separate phrase for it. According to this concept, the ideal woman is basically dignified and modest and yet at the same time alluring and determined, polite and delicate, graceful and elegant. Naturally female JPop idols are generally expected to adhere to this so I guess your overall point does stand. In other words, in this case we are indeed talking about ‘conscripting real-life women into doing so’. In general, it seems these societies are still conservative enough to retain the concept of idealized femininity whereas in the West this has been thrown with resentment on the trash heap of history decades ago.
Botond173
10d ago
I doubt this phenomenon exists outside Japan and South Korea to any significant degree.
Botond173
10d ago
I just realised that the Gen X/Millennial equivalent was feminist writers feeling disappointed by Johnny Depp marrying archetypal grippy-socks-grippy-box BPD art hoe Amber Heard, twenty years his junior.
It's no wonder this trash was written in 2014. It was the time when the Culture War was being escalated rapidly by the woke. It was obvious that things were going to turn bad.
archetypal grippy-socks-grippy-box BPD art hoe
I had to look this up in the dictionary. Welp.
Nerdy, socially awkward male writers get a lot of stick for indulging their Manic Pixie Dream Girl fantasy, but in their defense, at least they're usually content to invent fictional characters to fulfil this fantasy for them rather than conscripting real-life women into doing so and berating them when they can't perform a job they never agreed to carry out.
You know, this never actually occurred to me before.
Botond173
11d ago
I assume you’re referring to the social dynamic of Latinas seeing one another as dirty whores and thus being constantly paranoid about them (the other ones) seducing their man?
Botond173
13d ago
As long as the author was not against the idea of Russia entirely, they can get integrated into the syncretic religion of Glorious Grandfathers.
Not to go off on a tangent, but isn't that just how cultural policy usually works anywhere?
Botond173
13d ago
I'd argue the reason why many young Americans become rabid leftists also have a lot to do with the student loan bubble and the US healthcare system being the peculiar shitshow that it is.
Botond173
13d ago
Judging by his past in general, the portrayal of the Bolsheviks and their mentality in his works, and the censorship of said works in Soviet times, Bulgakov was at least as likely to be disowned by Putin’s regime as well. I find this at least as surprising.
Botond173
13d ago
Is this meant to be a reference to left-wing/anti-native British media bias?
Botond173
14d ago
A Kyiv Statue No More: Ukrainians Debate Role Of Russian Author Mikhail Bulgakov
Residents of the Ukrainian capital have mixed reactions over the removal of a statue of Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master And Margarita. Born in Kyiv when it was part of the Russian Empire, the novelist and playwright penned sharp satire and criticized Soviet society. But the statue has now been taken down after Ukraine's Institute of National Remembrance determined that Bulgakov also symbolized Russian imperial thinking -- under which Ukraine was seen as a Russian province.
A statue of Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov that stood on Andriivskyi Descent in Kyiv was removed and handed over to the sculptor’s heir for private storage, Kyiv’s Department of Cultural Heritage Protection said on June 4.
The transfer was carried out at the family’s request. The sculptor Mykhailo Rapai’s heir petitioned an interagency working group charged with removing objects tied to Russian and Soviet history and culture to release the work for personal safekeeping, the department said.
Kyiv’s City Council voted Dec. 18, 2025, to permanently remove the monument. The decision followed an expert opinion by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, prepared under a Ukrainian law that condemns and bans propaganda of Russian imperial policy and requires the decolonization of place names. According to the institute’s finding, Bulgakov is among figures that contemporary Russian propaganda uses to glorify the Kremlin’s imperial policy, and monuments to such figures should be removed from Ukrainian streets. The institute earlier, in April 2024, officially designated Bulgakov as a symbol of Russian imperial policy subject to mandatory decolonization.
‘Propaganda literature’: calls to close Mikhail Bulgakov museum in Kyiv
According to the union, Bulgakov “hated” the idea of Ukrainian statehood and “glorified” the Russian tsar and monarchy. He also “smeared” Ukrainian nationalists including Symon Petliura, whose troops entered Kyiv in 1918, it says.
The museum’s director, Lyudmila Gubianuri, has also hit back against criticism, calling Bulgakov “a man of his time”. “He was born and lived in the Russian empire. Bulgakov had an inherent imperial mindset, but neither he nor his family were ever Ukrainophobes,” she stressed. “Bulgakov did not believe in the reality of an independent Ukraine, like quite a lot of people at that time.”
She continued: “That’s why we can’t consider him a Ukrainian writer, although he was born in Kyiv and lived here for most of his life. But Bulgakov’s work is definitely part of Ukrainian cultural space.” His sympathies – in The White Guard and in his novel The Master and Margarita – were “metaphysical” rather than “political”, she said.
According to one Redditor:
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kіev (now Kyiv). His parents were both Russians, born in Russia. Bulgakov has never learned Ukrainian, and not a single his work includes a positive Ukrainian character unless that character never speaks Ukrainian, but sometimes his characters ridicule Ukrainian language and Ukrainians. He died in Russia, and I clearly don't understand why would anyone call him "a Ukrainian writer".
This is hardly surprising. In a demographically imploding and atomized society, children are scarce and not present in many social locations, and couples with small children normally interact with one another and not with singles.
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