1314 pts ยท July 10, 2023
Moreover, the hyper-limber/dexterous characters like Spider-Man very often adopt poses like these. Cable does pose #1 fairly often, just his other arm is forward with a gun. The *costume tearing* is very definitely problematic, and a lot of these guys can't do women's proportions in a plausible-- let alone healthy-- way, but the poses themselves are *mostly* either replicable or otherwise analogous in other sexualized/hyper-glorified sense.
The sexualization of men and women are different, though-- in men, it's more widely strength and toughness, while in women it's more elegance and grace. It's not all one way or the other, but I know my Mrs. got a rush looking at Wolverine beat up and bloody protecting someone. Even in real world dance, gymnastics, and other events where grace paramount, men are expected to showcase raw strength to a much greater degree, where women are expected to hyper-fixate on grace. 1/
Nah. They are mostly thinking Rainman and similar cases-- the rocking back and forth, the stilted speech, things like that.
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While the Eagle has been a symbol of power since the Bronze Age, America was very, very deliberately setting it up to be a new Rome, to be the inheritor of the Roman legacy, and chose symbology and iconography intentionally to replicate that. The Germans did, as well.
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY
Only once?
And yet there are clowns who insist that photorealism isn't "art"... that there's no soul to it.
We can't change the infrastructure of the country, but we can change how we interact with it. And while one person doing that won't change things broadly, society as a whole adopting those changes *does* change things. You vote as much with your behavior and your spending habits as with your ballot-- more so, realistically. But no, go on continuing whining about how you can't change anything. That'll surely make things better. 2/2
Circumstance clearly impacts what we can change, but if you think there isn't a *lot* that you can personally do, you're being willfully ignorant or intellectually lazy or just flat-out dishonest. The nature of food deserts makes commuting for shopping *more* important, not less so. Food deserts also impact about 13% of the population (at most), and most of those are in rural areas, not the urban areas. And even of that 13%, more than half have reasonable access to a nearby grocery store. 1/
than cut back on Netflix-- cutting back on meat, baking our own bread, and buying local (or as local as we can) produce being big on that list. Reduce new electronics, turn everything off when it's not in use (things like power strips for microwaves can even make a big difference collectively while not really negatively impacting quality of life). Other things include carpooling for groceries/shopping can make a big impact, too.
Read a book, take a walk-- write a story. "We can't" is a fundamentally untrue mindset. We're addicted to the mental sugar box and don't *want* to. Gotta work, and the nature of labor has changed so fundamentally over the last 100 years that maybe you gotta commute for that, but for almost everything else, there's a ton we can do as individuals to reduce impact... and if we *did* them, that would defacto reduce corporate impact, as well. That said, there are much bigger things we can do 1/
those, as well. Trail of Tears, general Indian Wars, slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese Internment, Chinese Exclusion Act, and the list goes on and on... those were all taught in WA schools as mandatory education since at least the 80s. We aren't hiding our shameful history, but I think it would be wrong if we try to pack in everything without also teaching America's most significant positive contributions and accomplishments, too.
In fairness to the gen pop re: the IBS, my middle school was closer to a college in its course coverage for liberal arts; we used collegiate text books, so in that instance, it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't being taught to more people. And while they were absolutely egregiously awful, I can also understand why they weren't really covered: there's a *lot* of negative history to unpack, but it is still important to cover the successes and triumph's of the US, too-- and there are a lot of 1/
they were in no way, shape, or form the majority of his votes-- not even *close*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election
18-24 in 1984... that's born 1960 - 1966. Some of those are Generation X, were 11% of the vote. 25-29 were 12% of the vote. 65+s were 19%, and were stronger Reagan than the Boomers/GenX. 50-64 were 23% of the vote, and were as strong as the 18-24 demographic. 30-49 were 34% of the vote, and were stronger than 25-29 crowd. Reagan's margin of victory was strong enough that it would have taken literal unanimous Boomer-opposition in 1984 to change the election (19% of the vote). But 1/
This, so much *this*.
What are you going on about? Germany absolutely does. Japan doesn't teach its WWII history, but it is required learning at elementary and high school at every school in Germany.
It's also very, very likely that others *were* taught, but since it didn't impact them, they didn't retain it. The amount of stuff my classmates said "we were never taught" that we spent weeks, if not months, studying is truly mindblowing.
really developed the empathy, for the most part, to really internalize and understand just what they're learning, and since "Well, it's history. Who cares. I wonder who Jim's asking to prom? I bet it's Pam, that lucky ... what? Oh, um, 1938?" is more common than an actual interest in the subject. The whole "That was then, who cares?" vibe. I dunno. I just know my classmates were taught a *lot* more of America's shameful history than they remember.
never learned about this!" continues to astonish me-- at my recent HS reunion, the topic came up about Japanese internment, and how awful it was that we weren't taught about it. We spent three weeks on that subject alone (and our classes were double length, so like normal school's 6 weeks-- was all of March minus spring break), on the Japanese internment in 11th grade, and *none* of these chuckleheads remembered it. I often wonder if the problem is more that whitey mc white kids haven't 2/
Moreover, the hyper-limber/dexterous characters like Spider-Man very often adopt poses like these. Cable does pose #1 fairly often, just his other arm is forward with a gun. The *costume tearing* is very definitely problematic, and a lot of these guys can't do women's proportions in a plausible-- let alone healthy-- way, but the poses themselves are *mostly* either replicable or otherwise analogous in other sexualized/hyper-glorified sense.
The sexualization of men and women are different, though-- in men, it's more widely strength and toughness, while in women it's more elegance and grace. It's not all one way or the other, but I know my Mrs. got a rush looking at Wolverine beat up and bloody protecting someone. Even in real world dance, gymnastics, and other events where grace paramount, men are expected to showcase raw strength to a much greater degree, where women are expected to hyper-fixate on grace. 1/
Nah. They are mostly thinking Rainman and similar cases-- the rocking back and forth, the stilted speech, things like that.
The condom should only be used in threesomes or moresomes. The condom fits three-headed+ penises. The condom fits all sizes 3"+. The condom can be resued 3+ times. The condom serves 3+. The condom is 3+" thick. The condom has been lovingly aged by the finest condomeers for 3+ years. 3+ minions can fit inside the condom.
p'kahn
While the Eagle has been a symbol of power since the Bronze Age, America was very, very deliberately setting it up to be a new Rome, to be the inheritor of the Roman legacy, and chose symbology and iconography intentionally to replicate that. The Germans did, as well.
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY
Only once?
And yet there are clowns who insist that photorealism isn't "art"... that there's no soul to it.
We can't change the infrastructure of the country, but we can change how we interact with it. And while one person doing that won't change things broadly, society as a whole adopting those changes *does* change things. You vote as much with your behavior and your spending habits as with your ballot-- more so, realistically. But no, go on continuing whining about how you can't change anything. That'll surely make things better. 2/2
Circumstance clearly impacts what we can change, but if you think there isn't a *lot* that you can personally do, you're being willfully ignorant or intellectually lazy or just flat-out dishonest. The nature of food deserts makes commuting for shopping *more* important, not less so. Food deserts also impact about 13% of the population (at most), and most of those are in rural areas, not the urban areas. And even of that 13%, more than half have reasonable access to a nearby grocery store. 1/
than cut back on Netflix-- cutting back on meat, baking our own bread, and buying local (or as local as we can) produce being big on that list. Reduce new electronics, turn everything off when it's not in use (things like power strips for microwaves can even make a big difference collectively while not really negatively impacting quality of life). Other things include carpooling for groceries/shopping can make a big impact, too.
Read a book, take a walk-- write a story. "We can't" is a fundamentally untrue mindset. We're addicted to the mental sugar box and don't *want* to. Gotta work, and the nature of labor has changed so fundamentally over the last 100 years that maybe you gotta commute for that, but for almost everything else, there's a ton we can do as individuals to reduce impact... and if we *did* them, that would defacto reduce corporate impact, as well. That said, there are much bigger things we can do 1/
those, as well. Trail of Tears, general Indian Wars, slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese Internment, Chinese Exclusion Act, and the list goes on and on... those were all taught in WA schools as mandatory education since at least the 80s. We aren't hiding our shameful history, but I think it would be wrong if we try to pack in everything without also teaching America's most significant positive contributions and accomplishments, too.
In fairness to the gen pop re: the IBS, my middle school was closer to a college in its course coverage for liberal arts; we used collegiate text books, so in that instance, it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't being taught to more people. And while they were absolutely egregiously awful, I can also understand why they weren't really covered: there's a *lot* of negative history to unpack, but it is still important to cover the successes and triumph's of the US, too-- and there are a lot of 1/
they were in no way, shape, or form the majority of his votes-- not even *close*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election
18-24 in 1984... that's born 1960 - 1966. Some of those are Generation X, were 11% of the vote. 25-29 were 12% of the vote. 65+s were 19%, and were stronger Reagan than the Boomers/GenX. 50-64 were 23% of the vote, and were as strong as the 18-24 demographic. 30-49 were 34% of the vote, and were stronger than 25-29 crowd. Reagan's margin of victory was strong enough that it would have taken literal unanimous Boomer-opposition in 1984 to change the election (19% of the vote). But 1/
This, so much *this*.
What are you going on about? Germany absolutely does. Japan doesn't teach its WWII history, but it is required learning at elementary and high school at every school in Germany.
It's also very, very likely that others *were* taught, but since it didn't impact them, they didn't retain it. The amount of stuff my classmates said "we were never taught" that we spent weeks, if not months, studying is truly mindblowing.
really developed the empathy, for the most part, to really internalize and understand just what they're learning, and since "Well, it's history. Who cares. I wonder who Jim's asking to prom? I bet it's Pam, that lucky ... what? Oh, um, 1938?" is more common than an actual interest in the subject. The whole "That was then, who cares?" vibe. I dunno. I just know my classmates were taught a *lot* more of America's shameful history than they remember.
never learned about this!" continues to astonish me-- at my recent HS reunion, the topic came up about Japanese internment, and how awful it was that we weren't taught about it. We spent three weeks on that subject alone (and our classes were double length, so like normal school's 6 weeks-- was all of March minus spring break), on the Japanese internment in 11th grade, and *none* of these chuckleheads remembered it. I often wonder if the problem is more that whitey mc white kids haven't 2/