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SSCReader
19hr ago
Sure there are other dynamics, but you have to measure both sides the same in the first placebefore you can the measure the dynamic differences.
AmrikeeAkbar
19hr ago
I actually like Nintis Gate, though I agree it's not ground breaking, and somewhat retro. Good rather than great is where im currently slotting it. Generally speaking I haven't had great luck in books I got from YouTubers/vloggers, so you're onto something with your larger point.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I mean, the average woman simply doesn’t desire the same variety of sexual partners that many men do. She desires a strong sexual relationship with a single man, which includes lots of non sexual affection, intimacy, caretaking, etc.
BurdensomeCount
Messenger Status: Shot
19hr ago
What more fundamental and valuable project could a man have than to sculpt his own wife and mother of his children? I agree he'll probably have other things on plate at the time he gets married (god knows I have more than enough) but any intelligent man knows how to prioritize stuff and when he gets close to marriage/finding "the one" will either sideline the less important stuff or just not pick up more low importance projects as he completes his current undertakings to make the time for himself to create his wife with all the care and attention that deserves.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I mean, 6 is above average for western women, isn’t it, and he admits that he’s being arbitrary with the actual numbers.
‘Not noticeably promiscuous’ seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to ask for in a partner for compatibility-and-expectations reasons- my understanding is that most secular westerners expect to have sex before getting engaged, but how soon varies a lot from person to person- or more precisely filter bubble to filter bubble- and it’s a reasonable proxy for ‘coming from a filter bubble with courtship norms acceptable to mine’. Welcoming of corrections, though.
Botond173
19hr ago
I imagine Prince Harry's and Edward's decisions were mainly driven by them wanting to simply spite their families whom they resented above all else.
With regard to Reagan I'm assuming you're referring to his 2nd wife? Did she have a reputation as a thot?
And with regard to Melania, are we automatically assuming that she was a thot by virtue of being a fashion model, or is there more to know about her career that I'm not aware of?
aqouta
19hr ago
I agree and have for some time agreed that Trump is an abomination and embarrassment to conservatives. The problem for actual conservatives is what is there to actually do here? Join the Democrats? There are some rational positions where that is the greater of the two evils. Perhaps this abundance agenda is the invitation they need to throw behind a Democrat side of the aisle that disavows a lot of the leftie fringe that the rest of the Democrats have been a little too beholden to.
Tree
19hr ago
I appreciate the attempt. I guess we just disagree on the charitability threshold, specifically the distinction between being wrong and lying. Of course I agree that the woke problem is not limited to 3% of Harvard’s output, but being wrong on this, and making a few flippant tweets, does not make hanania a bad faith actor.
And “Avoiding mentioning” is not a crime sufficient to establish mens rea. I also think Darwin should have been treated more charitably, so there you go.
HereAndGone
19hr ago
Yeah. But of course we've had it dinned into us "oh marriage is a big commitment, you need to be sure you're (sexually) compatible, live together first to find out". Maybe that worked out when the end goal was "probably going to marry this person" but now it's "well of course we'll live together, might get married, might not, probably we'll break up and move on to new partners".
I'm not going to say "slippery slope" but social conditions erode over time if not maintained, or if weakening of the boundaries happens. Back when cohabiting was rare, there was still the expectation of marriage as the end point. So living together was expected to end with a ring and kids. Over time as cohabitation became more accepted, marriage moved more and more out of the picture. You can't change something and expect it to remain at that one single change point forever, because it won't.
Tophattingson
19hr ago
Even though corruption will always exist to some degree, it's much better to live in a society where it's at least not blatant and generally seen as a bad thing that should be dealt with, as opposed to a country like Russia where it broadly runs rampant.
It depends. In the UK, I would vastly prefer the blatant corruption of money under the table to get construction contracts done over the stealth corruption of planning permission restrictions in favour of incumbent property-owning rentseekers.
Sure, speculate about my irrational motivations! Try to turn this into a debate about the object level while attempting to convince the audience that I've already tried and failed to debate the object level myself! Just don't act like you're surprised body count is a consideration among most men.
Again:
These attitudes were handed down directly from a Christian moral understanding of sexual ethics so it certainly shouldn't be surprising even if you disagree with it.
Are you surprised by faceh's inclusion of that criterion? I suspect you aren't really; and I suspect most commenters here aren't, despite the chorus of scoffs about its irrationality. My first comment was expressing shock that there are so many here to claim not to care, because they're the weird ones.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I really don’t understand what’s so bad about congresscritters insider trading. They’re using their connections to enrich their family members in harmless ways, what’s the problem? It isn’t like taking bribes or anything that might affect how they do their jobs.
Botond173
19hr ago
This in particular was addressed here for example:
The interesting thing about this study is the way that it shows how the second-greatest risk is marrying a woman with only 2 partners; the researcher's theory is that this might be the result of over-emphasized comparisons; the woman has just enough experience to realize that there is something else out there, but not enough to realize that most of it isn't an improvement.
https://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2016/06/n-matters-lot.html
The images in the post are no longer available as it's from 2016 but it doesn't matter much.
There's food for thought in the comments as well such as:
The odds doubling for the 10+ set likely is due to a woman who has that many partners has some other mental short circuit that causes her to either seek personal validation through sex, daddy issues, follow and unquestioningly accept some nonsensical ideology like slut feminism, is bipolar, or has some other issue not listed here. Where the n=2 may be a relatively normal woman who has a basis of comparison, the n=10+ is a strong indicator of some kind of mental/emotional instability.
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I wonder if "2 prior partners" is the sexual equivalent of "just 2 beers".
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Two theories:
1) Those may be fairly conservative religious girls who were brought up being told premarital sex and divorce was bad and held off sex to an extent, but went nuts with the divorce as an adult. But they didn't have enough time to accumulate 4-5 partners like the secular women did.
2) Women with 4-5 partners are less likely to get married AT ALL than those with 2 partners, choosing cohabitation instead. If marriage and cohabitation are considered together, those with 4-5 partners are still higher breakup risks than those with 2.
HereAndGone
19hr ago
the lack of desire of South Korean women to marry and have children is more that they perceive it as being a shit deal for them
How many men would take the bargain of "you'll have to get married and have a kid, preferably a son, and pour resources into that kid to succeed by getting into the limited range of jobs deemed socially acceptable; this will mean no childhood for the kid but that's the price to pay. you also have to work. you also have to do all the housework and childrearing, because your husband will be working more than he is at home, will have obligations outside of official work hours, and the rare time he is home, all the domestic labour is on you because that's a woman's duty. also you will have an interfering mother-in-law who will expect you to obey her every command because respect for seniors and preserving family harmony is important."
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Oh please. Blacks won’t mess with identifiable rednecks. This has nothing to do with unequal legal treatment and everything to do with white liberals being pussies.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
19hr ago
We have polling done on actual American soldiers in the middle of the war. Only 25% hated German soldiers. [I may have written “Nazis” above but the prompt says German soldiers.] Only 29% wanted to restrict aid, mid-war. I don’t know why this wouldn’t constitute a disproof. Would everyone say the same as Israelis? American soldiers fighting actual Nazis did not say the same things about German soldiers, let alone civilians.
The normals were given the questionnaires during the first 2 weeks of April, just as the major offensive was beginning which was to knock the Germans out of the war in Italy. All the men knew about the approaching offensive, and it is believed that the general expectation was that a tough fight was ahead
Tree
19hr ago
I don’t see why a woman should have any right to a man’s earnings after termination of the marriage. Being a good companion and a good parent is easy. Making money is hard. If one parent stayed at home while the other worked, if there’s a divorce, the idle parent should owe compensation for the time they twiddled their thumbs and watched teletubbies on the other’s dime: they’ve had their fun, it’s their turn to work now.
I smell a stuffy prudishness in your condemnation these men: are you familiar with the modern concept of no-fault divorce? No one gives a shit who fucked who, and even less how the paramour dressed.
Botond173
19hr ago
A man of any ambition will have projects in his (professional) life already. Multiple projects, and some of those he picks up because he has to, not because it's fun. Of course he wouldn't want his girlfriend to be yet another project. That'd be just a pain in the neck.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
19hr ago
Nope. Solidarnosc had a lot of support from the US, though it was not all in the open.
Wait, I missed something, who was Solidarnosc fighting against? Because I'm pretty sure they were fighting against a regime the US simply let walk into Poland.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
19hr ago
What the influential Smotrich had to say just a few days ago
The minimum [aid] required will reach the population, simply so the world doesn’t stop us
pressure must also be managed carefully so it doesn’t blow up in our faces. When the IDF returned in recent days to maneuver with full force to conquer the Gaza Strip, moving the population from areas where there was some food, our greatest allies in the world—those who support us, who understand we cannot stop short of total victory and the destruction of Hamas—asked us to help them help us and refute the lies about starvation. We need to do this. Without it, we simply won’t be able to stop and win
What will come in the coming days is minimal. A few bakeries distributing pita bread to people at public kitchens providing a daily cooked meal. Civilians will receive a pita and a plate of food, and that’s it. That’s exactly what we see in the videos—people standing in line, waiting for a plate of soup to be poured. This doesn’t reach Hamas, and it allows civilians to eat and our allies in the world to continue providing us with an international shield against the Security Council and The Hague
https://youtube.com/watch?v=STymrqvry2k
You can plug this into a program that converts subtitles into text and then translate it
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
19hr ago
I have been calling out Hanania's stupidity since at least 2023, and I'm no true blue aussieleftist. But he's definitely flattering different biases these days.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
19hr ago
No, but it's not zero and we're all guessing.
HereAndGone
19hr ago
I don't know if I believe the 80/20 thing, but part of the problem is the divide between what men want from sex (sex), what women want from sex (intimacy) and that there are men who want love and romance and women who want sex and no strings attached.
The plaint is that it's easy for women to have sex, that a single woman can just go out and hook up with a guy whereas a single guy has to jump through all kinds of hoops. Yes. Think about that. Men have such low/no standards that "a standing prick hath no conscience" so if the woman isn't actively repellent, they'll sleep with her. That's where we get the "a woman can have sex just for the asking" part.
Meanwhile, women want (I'm not going to deny it) casual sex too, but a lot of women want "sex AND", where it may be as simple as "sex with the hot/desirable guy" or more complicated with "sex with the guy I'm hoping will commit" or "sex turned into feelings and now I can't leave even though I know this is just a fling for him".
I'd also add an alternative mundane answer:
By being unserious about relationships in general. In a society where extended adolescence and delayed adulthood are the norm it's not even out of the ordinary.
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