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Crowstep  1yr ago (worksinprogress.co)   1742 thread views

Why we Duel - Works in Progress

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Submission statement: Anthropologist William Buckner discusses the social purposes and methods of duelling in various societies.

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I can't imagine the mental toughness it would take to juggle:

Being isolated from friends and family for multiple weeks

Trying to act and build a personal brand for your financial future

Avoid committing crimes against leftist orthodoxy during a sexual pitfight

Deal with the perpetual threat of real physical violence from your housemates

I've always thought the skillset required to win The Bachelor/ette is actually very similar to the skillset needed to survive interrogation in a prisoner of war camp, or hold up under tough questioning in a police station, or run for Senate. What it's tough to think about is all the producers off camera who are asking them questions, leading them on that so and so is talking shit, pumping them up that they have a chance when they don't, or flat out lying to them about things that happen. And over and over the contestant has to look into the camera and repeat how he's there for the right reasons, how he loves love, never say anything negative or go against the weird mix of progressive feminism and brainless-protestantism that form the core values of the show. It must take a tremendous amount of mental fortitude to ad-lib playing the character in real time, never slipping up, never making a gaffe that becomes a controversy for an episode. A technically perfect contestant, like Katie Thurston when she was a contestant or Tyler C, is impressive in its own right, its own kind of performance.

I haven't watched the bachelor ir bachelorette, but my girlfriend watches love island. And the behaviour of the men and women there is so bizarre.

For no reason, they all profess that they're there to find "the one" and only thing they care about is love. And yet they're all the most handsome men you can find with bodycounts into the hundreds. All suddenly acting like complete simps. And I don't understand what motivates the behavior.

Usually once you break up with the one you paired up with originally you're pretty much out the game. Nobody wants to pair up with you anymore and new people aren't accepted into the OG group.

The optimal strategy seems to be to pretend to love the one you're with, and yet the women all act like huge bitches always finding fault with their man and constantly being annoying and creating drama.

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