This is such a wildly theocratic move. Why would you not at least just keep them here and give them out to our citizens for free? The only answer could be that you see birth control as something bad to be avoided. And of course it coincidentally helps make sure the poor people keep producing plenty of future slaves. Just another happy alignment of slave-morality Christianity and the slavers
mfed1122
joined 4 months ago
It is pretty formulaic for the most part (it does have some more nuanced and unusual dynamics later on )but I still enjoyed it. It's like a Saturday morning cartoon you would watch while eating cereal as a kid. It's just a cozy, chill sort of show you can watch when you feel like some nostalgic, cheesy, easy watching. It takes me back to a simpler time, if that simpler time was more also more culturally progressive, and that's very comforting.
Both are frowned upon. But in proportion to a society's lack of sex equality, the relationship from the older to the younger when the older is the more empowered sex will be rightfully seen as more suspect. Whichever sex, in a given society, typically wields more advantage, power, wealth, etc. is by those same tokens more likely to abuse their advantages. All relationships with large age gaps are seen suspiciously since it typically means either (1) the older person is taking advantage of a naive younger person, or (2) the younger person truly is mature beyond their years. But when the older person is also a member of some group which is more likely to have advantages, whether that is the group of "business owner", the group of "famous people", or in most still-patriarchal societies today, the group of "men", the fact that they have more advantages reasonably draws additional suspicion to the already suspicious age gap. For instance, we suspect that the older person is only with the younger person for their looks, and is using their money to make it "worth it" for the younger person; or we suspect that the older person is using their wisdom to deceive the younger person into feeling truly loved when in fact they are objectified, etc. These tropes commonly show up in the case of the older woman with the younger man as well, but notice when - usually if the woman is very wealthy and the man is someone very attractive and not wealthy, and so on. It's the unequal standing of the younger vs the older that draws additional suspicion to the older.
So, this seemingly unequal treatment of men vs. women is not the result of some sort of bias or dislike for men (as some people may mistakenly interpret it) but in fact a rational response to the reality of the unequal standing of men and women in our society.
I remember awhile ago I wanted to diffuse essential oils purely because it smells good and it drove me nuts how hard it was to find a company that wasn't peddling some unethical pseudoscience MLM magic in their marketing.
We need zines to be a bigger thing again
Pretty epic start to a community tbh
For real, what did people expect? As far as I can tell this guy has zero experience as a cook, chef, or even as just a restaurateur. It's incredible how simple minded some people are.
"Oh! This is that guy we saw at the juggling show last week!! He's starting an investment fund? Wow how great, I'll transfer all my funds to it, he's a great guy!"
Like...wow. People really are that stupid.
It's so dainty 🥺 yeah, far from the norm here I'm ashamed to say
That would probably be a "small" at most fast food drive thrus here. Also, nobody orders a small unless they're on a "diet" - in fact I don't think I've ever seen any of my friends order a small. Generally everyone gets a large or extra large (because it's only a few cents more!!), which looks like this here: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/denise-gray-holds-two-extra-large-soft-drinks-from-news-photo/145545668
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, Mickey7? Stop posting this shitty boomer Facebook humor that is neither accurate nor funny. I understand this is likely a bot account, but maybe whoever manages it will see: We aren't falling for it. Save your electricity and go post this trash on Reddit
All joking aside, the cup really is too small and the burger really is too lettucey to look authentically American, 100% seriously
Nah, it's just regular inflation and companies not paying anyone what they deserve. Even people making 200k aren't getting paid what they deserve, which sounds insane to most people, but it's true. 150k doesn't even buy you what used to be a medium quality of life in the 90s, and especially not any earlier than that. Reminder that 200k household income does not put someone in the 1%, it puts them more in the top 15-10%. It's the top 1% that can be accused of lifestyle inflation, everyone else is just trying to reclaim a decent quality of life in exchange for their lifetime of soul-crushing labor. 150k sounds like a ton: It really isn't. Even 200k sounds like a ton: it really isn't.