u/soozerain

Preface: Not all women and all men think like this, but many do. I’m not speaking in generalizations

Look, it sucks being unattractive. Let’s just get that out of the way. We live in a shallow world where books are very much judged by their book covers. It sucks being ugly. Take it from a guy that was ugly himself and had multiple men and women say that to my face in the past. It took a lot of work but now I’ve progressed to average lol

Which is fine. I’ll take it. Progress is progress.

But I’ve seen similar struggles among both men and women and while I’m not trying to say one is worse then the other I will say women seem to think they’re uniquely oppressed when they don’t experience the same level of pretty privilege their friends or sisters do.

Newsflash: it works both ways. Trust me, men have plenty of experience being the “ugly friend” of the group.

Yes, Peter Griffin and Lois from Family Guy are held as “proof” ugly, fat men can get smoking hot wives but how many of them in the real world do you see? I’ve not and trust me I’ve looked. The ones I have seen are rarely any happier then in more looksmatched couples and many times the woman’s lost significant amounts of attraction for her fat, ugly husband but doesn’t want to leave because of life, kids, and finances.

When did they surrender it to the Right?

I was speaking to a doctor at my job and she mentioned how there was a huge rift in their family after her mother got remarried about 15 years after her father passed. She personally didn’t care but her brothers were livid and drove her out of their home. Meanwhile the man she married, also a widower, received very little criticism from the village at large or his family.

I’m curious to hear what you think. Is this still a taboo in China?

It’s in E flat major I believe and at first it wasn’t one of a favorite of mine. It’s off his legendary album Innervisions and followed Living For The City, one of the best songs of 70’s ever, and compared with that song’s sweeping narrative, dynamic production and incredible hook it just seemed to suffer. I’d skip it and go to Higher Ground or Don’t You Worry Bout’ A Thing

But I was all wrong.

It’s not just a great song on the album, it’s easily one of the best compositions of his career and the chord progression — specifically the verses — are at the heart of it. They’re bright, rich and warm; they sound like sunlight. It’s only when I really honed in that I noticed how perfectly written it was. If someone were ask for “a melody that sounds like the first weeks of love, the rush of falling and the heady feeling it brings”, you’d give them verses for Golden Lady.

I’m curious if this is a western/American phenomena I’m projecting outward.

I know both countries and both healthcare systems are different but that’s part of what’s interesting. I know y’all struggle with staffing issues, nurse retention, doctor retention and like most developed nations, an aging population and a shrinking tax base to pay for healthcare for that population.

I can already imagine a whole arc on nurse to patient ratios based on a what I know from you guys.

Hindsight is 20/20 but knowing what comes next I can’t help but feel that while ultimately successful it represented the end of the High Qing and the beginning of the Empire’s fraught 19th/20th centuries.

It nothing compared to what most of you seasoned vets have seen but I was so proud of Tom when he first saw the crawl space and was like “hell no”. I really thought we were gonna avoid it. But then near the end, when William recommends checking it off his list, I out loud went “noooo don’t do it Tom!”.

But of course, he does it. And man that’s just nightmare on nightmare fuel. Trapped in a small, already creepy, tight space with only a small light and then you hear a mysterious thump in above your head followed by the sound of footsteps, slow and deliberate, coming down the stairs.

Ugh.

Just the sight of william’s waist was enough to make me whimper. >!Because I knew at once he had to be the clown. And then of course him scuttling at Tom like fucking insect from hell.!<

This comes from an observation I’ve had with romance novels. They’re a cultural intersection where sexuality, romance, taboos, lust, capitalism, women’s rights, literacy and escapism all meet. I’m not a romance novel guy personally but I am fascinated by the ways sex and gender are reflected in the market. However, I’m not smart enough myself to tease these threads apart myself so I’m hoping people here might know some who are. It can be a book, a paper or an article. But I’m hoping to find one that that seriously interrogates the ways capitalism, feminism and the women’s rights movement in America have all fed off each other.

I’m going to try and phrase this carefully. I personally believe that capitalism isn’t perfect. As long as humans are part of it and remain imperfect, so will their political, economic and social systems. That being said, it’s the best system for we’ve got for an individual to make money. And it’s been a key part of the women’s right movement in America. To use one very simple example, as women entered the workforce in the 60s 70s and 80s and began to make money independently — without having to rely on a male guardian’s pursestrings — that helped change power dynamics the country and give womena boost in domestic, political and economic spheres. It doesn’t mean that things were perfect.

I’m just saying: If more money = more power then, Women + more money (made independently in their own name) = more power and more independence for women

At base I’m asking for recommendations of feminist literature that don’t view capitalism with contempt or suspicion. Works that take it seriously as a force of both evil and good.

In short order: he finds out his wife is dead, she knew he was cheating on her their whole marriage and she was fucking all his friends on the side as revenge. His wife tells him all this in her own words and with her own voice. But they’re spoken from the lips of his neighbor’s undead son.

And then he’s brutally murdered right afterwards while Gage laughs with his wife’s voice as it stabs him. I don’t know what I can say about King that hasn’t been said before to the point of cliche. I really loved this book. It was scary to read again and I found myself holding my breath most of the second half of the book.

Nothing pleases me and I’m a hypocrite lol

In short order: he finds out his wife is dead, she knew he was cheating on her their whole marriage and she was fucking all his friends on the side as revenge. His wife tells him all this in her own words and with her own voice. But they’re spoken from the lips of his neighbor’s undead son.

And then he’s brutally murdered right afterwards while Gage laughs with his wife’s voice as it stabs him. I don’t know what I can say about King that hasn’t been said before to the point of cliche. I really loved this book. It was really scary to read again. And I found myself holding my breath most of the second half of the book.

What did you guys think of it?

Magnificent work Stephen king. Horrifying, twisted and yet also thematically satisfying too.

If church/state separation is a hallmark of American democracy, why the backlash?

I suppose this sounds like a leading question but I’m slightly confused. Today, when people talk about budget shortfalls for the NHS or other public services, they mention the lack of high taxes on the 1%.

Some mention the pre-thatcher tax rates as examples of the good old days but, weren’t the 70’s really bad economically for the UK? Where was the money going?

I suppose this sounds like a leading question but I’m slightly confused. Today, when people talk about budget shortfalls for the NHS or other public services, they mention the lack of high taxes on the 1%.

Some mention the pre-thatcher tax rates as examples of the good old days but, weren’t the 70’s really bad economically for the UK? Where was the money going? Why wasn’t it doing more?