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"All girls and women [...] should avoid being alone with men they don’t know" I guess the default setting for my gender is 'predator'..
In response to that, a new generation of chivalrous Gentlemen will rise. Cheers to that!
"All girls and women [...] should avoid being alone with men they don’t know" I guess the default setting for my gender is 'predator'..
The author views are heavily tainted by her career: “I spent my entire professional life working on the issue of male violence against women—first in a rape crisis center, and later as a journalist and a media relations director for a legal campaign against sexual violence.” It’s easy to assume all men are predators when that’s the reality you face every day.
The issues in this article are no excuse to back peddle or react with fear, if anything I see them as reasons to continue forward, keep the good, address the bad and keep moving. This read like one long rant from my mother in law that starts with "I'm not racists, but Mexicans..." Except it's June Cleaver saying "I'm a feminist, but she was asking for it in that dress"
This seems like such an inherently christian viewpoint. It starts by stating as an axiom that the following are inherently bad: >porn >hook-up culture >fewer marriages >fewer babies These seem neutral to positive to me as someone not mired in christian morality.
Though I am not one of those people. Porn is obviously missing the mark, literally, morally and ethically. It's disturbing what % of the population makes it's living off prostitution, digital or not.
Blame the apps. None of this would be possible if it weren't for tinder and friends making hook up culture a thing. I would bet dollars to donuts that the folks thriving in this environment would not have the confidence to do the same thing in person.
What people need to understand about "the apps" is that there are some major differences (at least at the start) between meeting someone off a dating app, and meeting someone in person. You have to set different expectations for when you meet someone off a dating app versus when you meet someone at a bar for example. Most of the complaints I hear about the apps is folks that don't realize the difference, and that you have to adjust your strategy.
"All girls and women [...] should avoid being alone with men they don’t know" I guess the default setting for my gender is 'predator'..
Yes we are, potentially, until we decide we are not. The brute force way we now know is suboptimal and rightly failing, and no matter what you think about OP, the femcel trend she's writing about is happening. In response to that, a new generation of chivalrous Gentlemen will rise. Cheers to that!
This seems like such an inherently christian viewpoint. It starts by stating as an axiom that the following are inherently bad: >porn >hook-up culture >fewer marriages >fewer babies These seem neutral to positive to me as someone not mired in christian morality.
The last one is a serious problem in most Western countries. As the society gets older, there are fewer people who can work and actually sustain the rest of the population.
There are two fantastic solutions to a low birth rate:
Immigration, and robots.
You are better off not being a relationship which hurts you, more than being in one just for the sake of it.
To blame dating apps, hookup culture, divorce rate etc is extremely easy. And I understand the personal frustration and as someone who has never been in a relationship, never had sex, I don't think I'm missing out on anything, yes, I do yearn those things, but honestly, you really can't force things to happen, and life is not a movie, nothing is guaranteed.
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Yes we are, potentially, until we decide we are not. The brute force way we now know is suboptimal and rightly failing, and no matter what you think about OP, the femcel trend she's writing about is happening. In response to that, a new generation of chivalrous Gentlemen will rise. Cheers to that!
I'm not sure if you're aware of this and trying to make a point, but quite a few self-described "chivalrous Gentlemen" have in fact been predators. The whole notion of polite, chivalrous, "Gentlemen's" behavior as inherently desirable is, shall we say, a bit discredited.
There's no historical evidence of a knight ever having rescued a damsel in distress, for instance. It was far more likely for a knight to kidnap women, rape them to "consummate marriage" and take legal possession of their property. And that was just a privilege afforded to noble women who had anything worth stealing.
This seems like such an inherently christian viewpoint. It starts by stating as an axiom that the following are inherently bad: >porn >hook-up culture >fewer marriages >fewer babies These seem neutral to positive to me as someone not mired in christian morality.
The last one is a serious problem in most Western countries. As the society gets older, there are fewer people who can work and actually sustain the rest of the population.