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Simon Paynton wrote:
In this context, it’s “appropriate”.  What I mean is, it’s expected, it works best, and nobody will mind.

Expected (by whom?) works best (for everyone?) nobody will mind (nobody?)

So, you used “appropriate” instead.

Simon Paynton wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
It could equally be an exchqnge of other values, such as courtesy or division of labor in a household, exchange of favors, etc.

Yes, but if there’s an attitude of “if I do A for you, you’ll do B for me”, or vice versa, that’s not generous and freely given. In some circumstances it’s appropriate…

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@ Enco

You’re hypersensitivity over language is a bit overwrought and also silly. The word “sacred” has nonreligious uses and if an atheist uses “Oh God!” or “My heavens!,” they are just common expressions defined by their usage rather than their etymologies.

Hell (LOL), I even celebrate Christmas because my family does. I don’t go to Christmas…[Read more]

Japanese all-girl band cover’s The Warning’s song Sick:

The venue looks rather small. Maybe it was staged to look like a club performance(?).

You know, when I was in college and probably up until recently, one safe way to get some money to help you meet your rent or car payment, was to donate blood or sperm. Sperm banks were supposedly anonymous. All the sperm buyer got were general ideas about your race and health but not your identity.

Well, women like the one in my previous post…[Read more]

@ Simon

Is it any wonder that men are preferring their male friends and “Rosey Palm” to getting involved with women.

A little more common sense from Tom Leykis:

@ Simon

Men have a responsibility to support their children ethically and legally. Children need a man in the house because women tend to want to be friends with and not alienate their children. Men, by contrast and ideally, are authoritarian and are more likely to set and enforce rules even if their kids hate them for it. Kids (and women, often)…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
The sperm are plentiful and cheap, yet reproduction is of the highest value.

No, the problem women have nowadays is that men are walking away from female reproductive abilities. We men are putting a negative value on having children. So are women, for that matter, until it’s too late for them to find a mate and bear a…[Read more]

@ Simon, you may have the gender power dynamic backwards:

Simon Paynton wrote:
The sex differences aren’t so much “men enjoy things, women enjoy people”, than the deep social differences we see in society that encourage men to be kept in charge and women to be kept powerless.

Women are not powerless. Certainly not in the courts. Where does this purported powerlessness manifest itself?

Males and femal…

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Simon Paynton wrote:
Just because something is “natural” – i.e., it exists in nature – doesn’t mean it is good.The alternative to hierarchies of any kind is egalitarianism.

When anything rises to the top in nature, it’s because it’s the most workable (best) of the alternatives.

Why can’t egalitarians settle on a distribution of duties wherein m…[Read more]

Pau at age 13 (I think) singing an original song from their Escape The Mind EP for an audience of schoolmates I assume, since they are wearing school uniforms. All I can say is Wow, Just Wow!!!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen and Simon, “Designed”? “Bestowed”? Am I on the right Forum? 🤔

You don’t think you’re being a little overly literal, perhaps?

Feminist delusions. “Men don’t like me because I’m too pretty and too smart.” Might it be the tattoos? the online posting of photos of your ass? the wacky wardrobe choices? the cigarette smoking?

@ Enco

Cool! Give them weapons and let them eliminate Hamas. By killing a number of noncombatants for every Hamas killed, Israel is simply creating the Hamas soldiers of tomorrow.

Mgtow st the gym.

@ Simon

Men and women have been bestowed disparate talent sets which is a major reason why there’s a gender divide.

Think about why are there no (or at least so few) great woman painters whereas women, at least nowadays, are fully equal to men in the letters? Why no major conductors (the top 10 symphonic orchestras all have male conductors)…[Read more]