hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3d ago
The changes to law codes imposed by Christian missionaries are, afaik, not really disputable; they do seem to involve women being asked their consent to marriage. This process occasionally happens today in parts of the deep third world where Christianization imposes huge increases in the rights of women over very low baselines.
It's fair to point out that Christianity does not immediately solve every problem with poor treatment of marginalized groups, and that societies which are not Christian often have some informal pressure for women to get the rights Christian law codes later guarantee(the Viking sagas are quite explicit that a woman's father's consent is important to a marriage, not hers, but use the girl's consent as a trope marker for good fatherhood). But anthropologists are still making hay out of cultural differences between villages in polynesia and remote parts of Africa and the Amazon which were Christianized at different times. It seems to be a robust finding that women and girls in traditional societies have a much better go(albeit not up to modern western societies) when their village is Christian.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Wait how do you live off of that? IIRC you live on your own, right?
No country particularly wants somebody it’s paying pensions for itself, although Russia is very happy to take you into the army(hope you like дедовсчина) and plenty of third world countries don't have the capacity to exclude you if you just fly in and hang around(do you speak Swahili?), they’re not cutting you a check.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Being raped by strangers in your sleep is not a common occurrence. It's entirely possible that she thought her husband was having sex with her while she slept and even if she didn't like it she didn't see what the big deal was. Like if you know your husband doesn't always take no for an answer you'd just assume it was him doing it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
If you have truly passive income, then Costa Rica and Paraguay welcome you and your social security check.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
IIRC the most common job for the wives of high earning men, like for women from wealthy families generally, is 'k-12 teacher', narrowly beating out 'homemaker'.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Labour in the postbellum south was generally very cheap, with no shortage of poor whites doing the exact same jobs as blacks.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
All of these countries are much poorer than the US and people who can afford to drive usually prefer that. There's precious few examples of places where driving is a realistic option and it isn't preferred to busses.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
My grandparents who remembered those days were very clear that the reason was to prevent blacks and whites from interbreeding. Nobody cared if black and white men mingled, although they usually didn't. Black and white women worked alongside each other regularly. But southern states briefly experimented with segregating their high schools by gender after brown v board. Racial vitriol was strongest for black men mixing with white women.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The desegregated subway was safe for years. Progressives didn't like it, but it was safe despite equal policing.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Waitress is a mostly female job in the US, but they aren't selected for attractiveness.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
US schools actually do do a very fine job of teaching, comparisons are just compiled on the basis of comparing scores between poor black kids in the inner cities and the kids of the Japanese elite so the education system can pitch a bigger fit about 'inadequate resources'.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
It’s worth noting that twitterati who have crunched thé numbers found, unsurprisingly, that high income men prefer women with high education while having little preference on income.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Probably a little of column a, a little of column b, but schools do seem to push teachers to report cases they aren’t really sure about(I mean, teachers have told me this).
hydroacetylene
5d ago
But one third of kids are investigated by CPS- thé bottom 1% of parents are not having 33 kids apiece, just mathematically CPS is investigating not bottom-1% parents. And the same logic holds for 5 or even 10 percent, as well.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
You know, if Australia’s not going to have freedom of speech anyways, it actually seems better to crack down on gross fetishism than not.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
What definition would you suggest? You have to have some cutoff, the general case of murder isn't a mass shooting.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
The risk factors for mass shooting are actually known- biological males from broken homes, with either known mental disorders or Islam. A tailored policy would be unconstitutional, but it is very possible.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Society is pretty chill about most mass shooters being biologically male because biological males form 50% of the population or thereabouts- you can't not be chill about it.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
So technically humans are R-selected compared to our close relatives, because we have more kids when their big siblings are still in diapers. A 'natural fertility population' would have a TFR of between seven and ten, high compared to great apes. Of course we're K-selected compared to wolves, which have more similar family structures to people than great apes do.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
That doesn't sound Roman. That sounds Greek, particularly Athenian or Macedonian(Sparta preferred foreign bribes over directly extracting tribute).
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Uh, most CPS reports are generated by large institutions with expansive reporting policies as a form of ass-covering, particularly schools and hospitals. Not neighborhood busybodies.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Homeschooling families can get away with a lot more because almost all stupid, frivolous, or borderline CPS reports are made by large institutions, particularly schools.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
This ignores a confounding variable- the overwhelming majority of CPS reports come from state mandated reporters(mostly teachers), and there's probably cycles in how sensitive those state mandated reporters are. An increasing reportage percent in the early two thousands has an obvious explanation- with the Catholic Church and BSA sex abuse scandals in the news, reporting requirements got stricter and continuing ed for those reporters got more intense. That probably explains the increase in 2000's investigation rates by itself.
Answering your questions-
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I see preteen children out and about by themselves, on bicycles or walking, pretty regularly in the summer, usually traveling in groups. I see kids playing in front yards a lot too.
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I was allowed to walk to the library or the convenience store at an early age, perhaps ten is fair. I didn't get sent to the grocery store until I could drive, possibly for cargo-related reasons, but I did get sent into the grocery store while my mom sat on her phone in the parking lot.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Today twenty year olds are not allowed to date 15 year olds(17 year olds sûre, that happens).
At the end of the day, the protestors win by making the government's enforcement arm look bad, which forces their political goal. This is non-violent protest theory 101. Dogs and waterhoses are good for the protestors, a bunch of them going to jail for things like 'obstructing police proceedings' is not, because nobody pays attention to that outside of the activist core.
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