Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
9hr ago
I once hugged someone in a way that someone else thought was the wrong way to hug someone and heard about it from her three times over the course of a week, each time her then saying it was no big deal. Eventually I snapped and said "if it's no big deal, why do you keep bringing it up?"
Skulldrinker
10hr ago
I said that nothing in the laws of physics stops that from happening. And no amount of law enforcement will change that.
Skulldrinker
10hr ago
I mean I would hate that because it means nothing when she does it to everyone and I'm not allowed to do anything with it, so it feels more like she's messing with the Buckingham Palace guards.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
How, precisely, can a man mitigate the risk of any given woman he slept with accusing him of rape at a later date?
This reaches the point of unreasonable neurosis. Nothing stops a random person you pass on the street from just abruptly jumping you and bashing your head on the curb, the laws of physics allow this to happen. Yet, people still go outside.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
On most of these, you can set a match radius to whatever distance you like.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
Probably, yes, since he's also the sort of guy to obsess about being me-to'd over hand-holding.
But I would be curious if there's legit been a loss of institutional knowledge among women, like no one told them that men like being touched. Or they have some neurosis that if they touch a guy's arm, he'll take that as permission to grope them.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
Speaking of initiating physical contact, I've noticed that now even when women are into me, they have no concept of reciprocating physical contact. It's the equivalent of going starfish. I get more reciprocal affection from petting a cat.
It wasn't always this way, I remember when they'd lean in or give me a hip-bump or something. Now it's all recieve, no give.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
Asian women hunt for white men like a tiger hunts for deer.
Are the Hmong an exception to this? Those were the only Asians in my college town, and I don't think I ever even saw a mixed couple, or had one voluntarily speak words to me.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Autopsy of Jane Doe also doesn't claim to be based on accounts that claim to be real. Also, buried alive, not burned.
But yes, the-bigots-created-the-monster is another variation. Or the "witch" does actually have magic powers or is psychic or whatever, but there's no connection to "satanism", which is ultimately Christian fanfiction.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
No the ghost in question is a descendant of the witch that died in the Salem witch trials. I just can't get over to anyone that made up that story either thinks the Salem witch trials caught actual witches or thinks the person they're talking to think that the Salem witch trials caught actual witches, when by this point it should be well-known that even if witches existed, the one place they weren't was at the Salem witch trials (being executed). That's why when people call things a "Witch Hunt" they don't mean a righteous crusade against practitioners of black magic, they mean a spurious moral panic.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
That's because humans are humans everywhere and have the same wiring. For example, every culture has some sort of spook that paralyzes you at night. That isn't proof of greys or night hags existing, it just means that sleep paralysis is a common glitch in human neural architecture.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
So, the Second Reneisance.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Yes, but when people notice the cringey unflattering self-indulgent tropes of women's romance fiction, they don't treat it as an injustice that needs to be corrected so more men can enjoy reading about vampire billionaires.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
this has had an brought women together to share their stories in a moment of cultural solidarity.
Hasn't that been continually happening for the past 16 years?
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Also, an educated priesthood that generally doesn't believe in demons.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Doesn't Jesus need to be Type-O for theological reasons?
Skulldrinker
7d ago
This is the tradcath equivalent of Transwomen are Women.
Skulldrinker
7d ago
But not the protestant God. And also satanic witches are real.
Skulldrinker
7d ago
Obviously an actual vial of Jesus blood is more potent than metaphysical/metaphorical wine-blood. Otherwise Catholic-run hospitals could produce infinite blood for transfusions.
Skulldrinker
7d ago
I'm not objecting to dramatic license, I'm objecting to the "mythos" and metaphysics. Whether the ghost actually dragged someone around a basement or held a door shut doesn't bother me nearly as much as the Salem Witch Trials thing.
I recently had some houseguests, The conjuring came up on movie night, and the guy's girlfriend turned out to be a huge fan. They're competently done horror films, but I was a little bit surprised to find out that she thinks that they're real, and it took an effort of will for me to not go overboard poking holes in the Warrens. So now I've got all these thoughts about The conjuring.
Even in a film that glazes them, you can see the underlying shape of the grift. The mythos doesn't match up with other supernatural fiction, it matches up with the vague folk-Catholicism of a dumb person. Why is Ed Warren, who knows all there is to know about demons and exorcism rituals, less supernaturally potent than a Catholic priest, who probably thinks demons are imaginary? Why only a Catholic priest, why not a minister or a voodoo guy? Why is it relevant that the satanic witch ghost had a relative who was killed in the Salem witch trials? In the universe of The Conjuring, did the witch trials find real witches, rather than it just being a jilted lover and ergot poisoning? Just seems like such a unnecessary story element. Catching an actual witch at a witch trial is usually a punchline, like in Widows Bay or Treehouse of Horror. In the 70s did median American believe the Salem witch trials were real?
When a story is presented as fiction, this kind of inconsistency doesn't bother me as much, I don't ask why Patrick Swayze can walk through walls but not through floors, because ghost doesn't pretend to be a documentary.
Skulldrinker
7d ago
"changes society" is a recent tack-on to the heroines journey; they all have to be activists.
Skulldrinker
11d ago
5 miles is like 10 minutes of country driving, though.
Skulldrinker
12d ago
There are no single women in the middle of nowhere who will be impressed with your house and stable job at the general store, so this strategy is a non-starter.
It's bad to make you click.
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