Botond173
9hr ago
I recall reading that the 2016 election was rather close in New Hampshire and Vermont(?).
Botond173
11hr ago
'noblesse oblige' only worked in societies which adhered to the concept of 'noblesse'. Modern society, on the other hand, does not believe that the ruling class assumed its status through hereditary privilege, consequently it does not believe either that the ruling class is obligated to anything by its status.
Botond173
11hr ago
Trump is a weird exception in a lot of ways, but he’s also done unusually poorly in New England
In which election?
Botond173
11hr ago
I wonder if part of the dislike is that he has the wrong sort of tattoos; too much 'white trash' and not enough 'progressive rainbow hair septum piercing sleeve art' style.
You're not telling me that there's anyone out there sincerely accusing a soldier of this, are you?
Botond173
1d ago
I see. I'm also guessing that Gingrich was concerned about the DC cocktail party circuit influencing the Congressmen's children and wives. Then again, maybe he wasn't thinking that ahead.
Botond173
4d ago
In its essence the Wall is simply a biological reality - boys generally mature slower than girls but women also generally age faster then men. It's no wonder that an age gap of 3-5 years has been widespread in marriages throughout history (on both sides of the Hajnal Line, as far as I know, but again, I'm no ethnographer). And in societies where early marriage and childbirth plus enforced monogamy are the norm, the Wall practically does not matter, as the average woman hitting the Wall is already a wife and the mother of multiple children, plus soon to become a grandmother, in fact. So she already bought into the social fabric.
I suggest there are three main aspects to the Wall in the current social reality. One: there are more and more women hitting the Wall when they are single or at least childless, which then causes lots of hurt and disillusionment. Two: the worsening trends of female alcoholism, drug use, prescription pill abuse, sedentary and unhealthy lifestyles in general are all accelerating ageing, which makes the whole phenomenon worse. Three: a small but visible and loud minority of women are capable of spending a great deal of resources on anti-aging measures with notable success, which in turn creates the widespread illusion that the problem is much less worse than it actually is.
Botond173
4d ago
The Wall is about sexual value, not social value, as hitting it entails a strictly biological/bodily transformation.
Botond173
4d ago
Your appearance obviously invoked motherly feelings as long as you were just a boy, that is all. It has nothing to do with The Wall.
Botond173
4d ago
Anything is unlikely to be well-defined when any discussion of it is purged from society instantly even on the internet.
Botond173
4d ago
People way more comfortable interacting with strangers' small children than in Australia since there are more small children around.
I think the more likely explanation is that the pedophile predator threat is part of the public consciousness in Australia but not in SE Asia. And I doubt the fertility rate is higher in SE Asia than in Australia.
Essentially everywhere has ample childseats.
Do you mean restaurants and third places in general?
Botond173
4d ago
As someone who hasn't seen the movie I assume there are two things going on. One: the store owner, unlike his female therapist, is not college-educated, which is a significant social barrier to a potential relationship between them. The therapist would probably suffer social ostracism if she paired up with him, which obviously could be offset were he an attractive stud, which he isn't. Which leads to - Two: it'd be possible for a store owner entrepreneur and a therapist to have a successful marriage, as the difference in terms of social status does not seem to be that big, but again, mutual attraction needs to be there for that first.
Botond173
5d ago
Marriage proposals are all submitted and answered in writing by law. Unless you can produce such a document, the authorities will assume that you're unmarried by choice. Just an idea.
Botond173
5d ago
Can you please explain in what sense is Southeast Asian culture more child-friendly than Australian culture?
Botond173
5d ago
I always assumed it takes place in NYC. Then this thread reminded me for the first time that there's a desert in the story as well.
Botond173
5d ago
If you don't want them, just be honest about why
I think the first and equally important step is admitting that you don't actually want them.
Botond173
6d ago
That’s also my suspicion. If we’re talking about the college-educated demographic, if one does not have a long-term partner at graduation, the chances of future marriage and parenthood are probably dropping drastically. I’m guessing there is research bearing this out.
Botond173
6d ago
The focus of this report is a lot narrower than the previous one which means there are fewer fun takeaways. Two facts stand out. There's been a lot of speculation about coupling not working, people delaying childrearing so they are unable to get that third child, et cetera, but the report doesn't bear any of these concerns out. Men and women are still moving in together, but the major driver of the decline is that there's a growing cohort in which the couple never decides to have kids. A lot of DINK-couple (Double Income, No Kids) are no longer as eager to become DICKs (Double Income, Couple o' Kids) as they used to be.
https://www.themotte.org/post/3555/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/410740?context=8#context
Botond173
6d ago
I thought there was broad social consensus in the US that such women are usually punished rather lightly.
Botond173
6d ago
It's not like attractive single female teachers need to resort to such measures in order to get pregnant though.
Botond173
6d ago
I ask you to reconsider this. Condoms used to be unreliable and uncomfortable. Natural family planning necessitates a level of human agency that most normies lack, plus it entails the woman having sex on days when her desire level is at the lowest, which is hardly practical. Coitus interruptus is also unreliable.
Before tattoos have become completely commercialized and gentrified (so to speak), i.e. not a staple of white trash status anymore, there was a time when tattoos were only worn by prostitutes, soldiers, sailors and criminals (the latter group obviously also having included some former soldiers and sailors). Platner's tattoos are pretty much just a throwback to those days.
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