I don’t think you can safely say “the hollywood industry,” if you aren’t also going to make football into “the football industry.” They both contain people who have been abusive or rapists, both contain higher ups with interests in protecting those people. Sports aren’t inherently evil, neither is acting. The…

I think what she intended was more like “you didn’t notice because of your privilege, but when immigrants are discriminated against or painted as the villains, that’s the team you’re on. You are that group, too. whether you felt it or not.”

It isn’t about the system in place at the time. I was referring to the people’s relative sudden disregard for the system they been ok with previously (not to say as a whole, all the time, but enough the system stayed in place for generations). The system of choice doesn’t matter here. Assuming every rebel in history…

I hadn’t noticed.

Are you thinking every time in history people staged a political coup it was because they were hypocrites who didn’t get their way? Like, you think people suddenly hated the king, all kings being equal, and so that’s how dynasties got toppled?

What I have found so incredibly striking during this whole thing is how utterly ineffective or absent safe-guards are against all this. I had supposed there was rules within the rules that I thought must be there to keep people in line. Yes, I knew about corruption etc, but that the rules could be so optional, that…

“Mermaids are long overdue for a cultural resurgence”

I wouldn’t want to quickly dismiss a whole group of people as being unwittingly tricked into becoming turned on by “the wrong stuff” - I’m certain it’s much more complex than that. That said, we do absolutely know that exposure to imagery triggers mirror neurons, and you can be taught to find things hot you might not…

That’s not entirely true. Studies show (I am pleased to present some sources) that patterns emerge in sexual fantasies that have a lot to do with cultural influences. Mirror neurons are a thing. So for example, if I decided to watch enough porn in which a person is being strangled, I can actually teach myself to get…

I think it seems odd to you because you’ve assumed that girls and boys are equally committing juvenile offences. In other words, if it’s 50/50, and girls are arrested 37% of the time, they are underrepresented? Other commenters address this, but actually girls committing juvenile offences occurs at a far lower rate…

A user here mentioned (The Noble Renard?) that we should stop calling them the alt-right in favor of calling them what they actually are, neo-nazis. As this is correct, I can’t see how it fails journalistic standards to do so.

I’m a little bit torn between which offence is worse, and how many different kind of offensive elements to this are. If this was a movie in the 90s she’d wake up the day after looking horrendous and have to magically stay that way until she developed inner beauty.

It’s just, 1950-2000 was ages ago, and people in the gender studies and sociology fields recognize this data and thousands of similar studies as fact and have forever now. The classic textbook case is bankers and IT people, both fields that had a swap in genders and pay at the same time.

My own mom was like that, and we solved it like this: pick items that represent others like it, and scrap the rest. Having one item weirdly becomes like having all the rest. So like, one blanket, one book, one pair of jammies, etc. You have keepsakes, and a back up set should you need them. Put them all in one nice…

I think, much more than we realize outside psychology classrooms, we are designed to try improve the collective “us” by being more aware of trends in culture than we give ourselves credit for being. I think we all have a natural, strong desire to steer the herd to safer, smarter cultural options. Alas, this impulse…

Let’s say it is a thing - interacting with it is a bad idea. Nothing bad has come from respecting it at a curious, undecided distance. It’s logical nothing will come from continuing to do the same, except to assert your own space. Others in this thread have lots of good advice, I like the idea of cleansing the energy…

I have met that same kind of frog! I call it Shade Frog because it looks like it’s judging hard but also sounds like a legit frog species.

I was thinking the things she’s offered for her soul were tragic. He offered tasty food, to see the world, and nicer stuff. Basically, what everyone wants, but what these people heavily denied themselves. Their every-day would have been brutal. Further, I think the family shared in the religious notion that you have a…

It would not require Facebook to use, but let anyone in the area with a range you specify make a profile. It would be detailed, but just questions that are answered, no “tell us a little about yourself” ones that invariably to the ol’ long walk on the beach or I-like-humor answers.

Of course, as a fan of lots of Japanese entertainment, I get not wanting it tampered with - it is important to get the intended experience. I’d be more upset if violence and blood was altered because there is relevance to having it remain, and it’s removal would change things like severity and therefore the story, if…