If you Thanos snapped the bottom 2% of society out of existence, society would become Mayberry with iphones and a small child could traverse NYC alone with no threat whatsoever. People simply do not understand how much low-trust and criminality is tolerated as a political choice.
@MasterTimBlais Itโs like a bad flowchart where the laughing leads to ostracization -> neglect -> perishing to hateful violence, severe depression, lack of access to non-dangerous jobs, homelessness, ill health or lack of care, but thatโs too diffuse of a threat so it โdoesnโt countโ.
if you want your child to be an "ally," he needs the kind of social cachet amongst the boys that allows him to taste-make and trend-set, for other boys to even give a damn when he says "you shouldn't do that"
but sure, go ahead and train him to be a brownie point fiend instead
always shocking how effortlessly some people can drag the moral center of gravity through the floor simply leaning on people's desire not to harsh the vibe
always shocking how effortlessly some people can drag the moral center of gravity through the floor simply leaning on people's desire not to harsh the vibe
Very common sight among youngish yuppies to see โthe gfsโ treat the men like the โkidsโ tableโ at a family function. While single in these intolerable scenes I would get the sense of transgression any time I talked to any of the women normally. America is an insane asylum, etc.
The lesson of the long twentieth century is that mercy gets you nowhere. You will pay for it forever. No one gives the Arabs a hard time about the slave trade, because the Arabs made sure there were no descendants of slaves. No one gives the Argentines a hard time about stolen land, because the indigenous peoples of Argentina were systematically eliminated. No one gives the Japanese a hard time about the Ainu, because there are no Ainu.
It's funny how covid was this big unprecedented historical event but they're never going to make any movies about it because it would make everyone look retarded
Conor doesn't get it. If you grade the homework, the black kids fail. If you suspend troublemakers, they're disproportionately black. Both of those things constitue racial discrimination on the grounds of "disparate impact." The teachers literally do not have a choice.
Discussing the "trades" question requires a type of mental decoupling that is difficult for many.
An enlightened ruler would *reduce* the over-production of BA-holding "Hidalgos."
But nonetheless, it may be in *your* best interest to vie for a slot as a white collar Hidalgo.
"MEN AND BOYS ARE ALLOWED TO BE QUIET AND AWKWARD"
No they are not. It gets them viewed as weak and dangerous simultaneously. Women often will gossip behind their back and bully them incessantly because they can't handle the ambiguity of silence and prefer an obvious reaction.
Reminder that men's folk sociology about women is treated as dangerous radicalisation and women's folk sociology about men is treated as popular science
The "women's illness du jour" has existed for centuries.
- Hysteria (wandering womb)
- Chlorosis / green sickness
- The vapours
- Spinal irritation
- Motor hysteria / grande hystรฉrie
- Neurasthenia
- Reactive hypoglycemia
- Mitral valve prolapse syndrome
- Candida / yeast hypersensitivity
- Total allergy / multiple chemical sensitivity
- Silicone breast-implant illness
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
The condition changes, but the demographic doesn't. That slot is now filled by fibromyalgia.
First they came for the em dashes, and I did not speak out.
Then they came for โnot X, but Y,โ and I did not speak out.
Then they came for the rule of three, and still I did not speak out.
Now theyโre coming for curly quotation marks. This is actually where I draw the line.
Yes, this is correct. Here's the other side of the coin though:
- Most guys are boring and "hanging out" for them is sitting around watching sports or talking about work. They have no passion or interests. The are either neurotics, who are looking for a soapbox to parrot "the current thing" or they are just placid zombies who you fall asleep talking to. Whether their wives raped their spirits or they were always like this is a chicken-egg question
- Many wives want their husbands to have guy friends, but they want these friendships intermediated by THEM, the woman. As in, they want hangouts to consist basically of "couples" or only "let him" have a small number of constrained outings. They do not allow real male bonding (which is invariably outside of a woman's control)
One of the best things about my arrest was I lost all of my raped friends. It is LIBERATING not having this guys in your life. Good male friends are precious, but for these others... it's better to be alone than around them - not only because you cannot trust them, but because it's more lonely calling people who barely exist or understand you "friends."