I recently learned that my husband only opens instagram once every 4-6 weeks to check our local ice cream parlor's flavor of the month……it is just….an ice cream flavor checker for him….amazing
— Rachel Feltman (@RachelFeltman) June 2, 2022
Sounds like an approprate use of the tool, and a better use than 99.9999% of people have for that abomination.
Is There a Downside to Going Gluten-Free if You’re Healthy?
Of course there is. It’s moronic and everything tastes like a garbage can. So strange that gluten has been demonized. If you’re not sensitive or allergic to gluten, there’s no issue.
TRY DATING PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY LIKE, it's actually kinda cool
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) June 1, 2022
PMC libs say this is immoral, because for them dating and sex is 100% about power.
feels weird that praising Wolf has gotten me more backlash irl than nearly any other film. maybe the memes are to blame?
scorsese doesnt even see wall street traders as having the humanity of his gangsters. he treats them as the lowest form of life. greed personified. demons. https://t.co/giyH2fPaTs pic.twitter.com/nPHAtevKnY
— Glengarry Girl Boss (@rip_cinema) June 1, 2022
A lot of “critics,” especially woke ones, are capable of only the most literal and unreflective takes on any work. It’s remarkable what I’ve seen written about films and books where the critic has totally and completely missed the point. In the woke left world and mind, portraying something at all is condoning it. This is why I think they are such big fans of censorship.
In past times they would’ve been Church Ladies. Now they are just boring prude blue state scoldy people.
Why don’t they just make 25 the age of majority since that’s when the brain is fully developed?
I expect this to occur, especially for women. As a psychologist points out in the comments, this supposition about the “brain being fully developed” is bunk. But I expect the “age of adulthood” to be made 25-30 for women in my lifetime de facto or de jure, and probably 21 for men. But perhaps just for women — hard to tell now.
Not among working scientists, but on this site, I occasionally encounter theories that do not fit the existing, large-scale real-life data at all.
Must-ask question for any theory: "What would the world look like, if this were true."
To be science, it has to connect to reality.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) May 31, 2022
This is why I love Zeynep. She’s not afraid of pissing off the “Everyone is gonna get Covid 900 times a year and it’ll end society” crybaby Covidian libs. Surprised they haven’t turned on her more, to be honest.
Good short essay. She understands what’s really going on.
I often hear that, in a relationship across an age gap, the older partner is the more powerful. There are, of course, relationships in which this is true: between suave, wealthy Svengalis and naive ingenue mentees. But in my experience the power imbalance is more often the other way around.
Indeed. A lot of women have realized they can get away with the “Tee-hee, I was just a naive little 23-year-old baby, I didn’t know what I was doing” act, and are going to use it. It’s only human to do so, but it doesn’t make it true — no more than it is true when men say, “I thought she said ‘yes.'”
And it’s common to feel especially insecure about your attractiveness when you’re the older party, especially if you’re a woman. In an age-gap relationship, there is often a significant power gap—the younger person wields more power simply because he or she is more sexually desirable and therefore has far more relationship options. This is especially true if the woman is the older one: youth is more prized in women than in men.
The dream of everyone is to have power and choices without accountability and responsiblity. Feminism has realized it can get away with this (their “All women under 40 are powerless little babies” schtick) and so it’s going to try. It’s not women being evil; it’s women being human.
And of course PMC libs are fine with this dull accounting because they wish to herd everyone into the all-knowing all-seeing algorithm, and anything they can quantify and make verboten serves this end very well indeed.