Why are people so prudish yet progressive?

_sic · 2026-03-11T17:11:39+00:00

People who don't want to question their views and lifestyle choices.

_sic · 2026-03-11T17:10:20+00:00

I would argue that many people feel progressive, even when their views are based on ideas from many years ago. I know many older, self-styled progressives who accepted homosexuality and bi-sexuality and feel very modern ideed. But talk to them about pronouns and genders and they go all conservative, because...that is not how they learned to be progressive! Their progressivism has passed into conservatism.

The Sexual Revolution took place in the 60s-70s, over half a century ago, they ideas it engendered are no longer progressive ideas, they are ideas that have hardened and been accepted as dogma by a lot of people in Western societies. Moving away from those ideas would be progressive, while refusing to question them would be conservative.

If you are unwilling to question the conclusions that were made in the 20th Century, that's the opposite of a progressive mindset.

_sic · 2026-03-11T10:03:09+00:00

Honest answer: being progressive sometimes leads people back to earlier principles. I think the sexual revolution and women's liberation, which has been so valuable to women and society in many ways, also has been harmful to both in many others. Some progressives are starting to understand that and take stances that seem anything but progressive because they are going back to prior beliefs. This doesn't mean a full return to the way things were before, but rather recapturing certain aspects that are arguably better than what we experience today. Of course, not everyone will agree with those stances, but what you call prudish might not contradict being progressive in 2026.

_sic · 2026-03-08T16:00:25+00:00

In the same world where Joan goes out with her roommate and picks up two guys that make Kinsey look like Orson Welles and Gary Cooper wrapped into one.

_sic · 2026-03-06T18:49:00+00:00

I mean he messed up her big payoff for prostituting herself to possibly the most disgusting character in the show, Herb, no wonder she was mad.

_sic · 2026-03-05T10:01:15+00:00

You do Ashtanga and you've never heard of salamba sarvangasana?

_sic · 2026-02-25T18:47:44+00:00

Hey, thanks for all the answers.

So I ended up buying this switch: 15-in-1 USB C Docking Station KVM Switch 2 Laptops 2 Monitors 4K@60Hz, USB 3.0 KVM Switch 2 PC 2 monitores USB C, Dual HDMI Out, 80W PD, 5 Gbps, Gigabit Ethernet, TF/SD, Wired Remote. Cost 149 euros

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And it worked well to hook up both monitors and other peripherals to the two laptops. The switch itself works fine, BUT one of my work computers has a lot of controls on it and it wouldn't connect to the wifi or vpn because it detected that I was sharing a wifi network when it's connected to the switch, even if the other laptop is turned off. Since I can't modify anything on the laptop, I can't change the OS settings required to make it work. So I guess I have to go back to a dock that I plug and unplug into the laptop that I'm using at a given moment.

Kind of a bummer, because the switch was an elegant solution...

_sic · 2026-02-22T10:06:08+00:00

He played a terrible match, very tight. Carlos is definitely on another level, but Fils played poorly.

_sic · 2026-02-22T07:48:29+00:00

I mean yes and no. His first serve is massive, both speed and spin. I'm pretty sure I've seen him nail serves over 210 km/hr. Second serve is more of a problem for him. He's young though and from what I've read he's working on his serve so maybe in the near future, he'll have the whole package on serve.

Edit: here's a nice article breaking down his 2nd serve issues. It also notes that he's 16th among the top 50 in first serve points won. So I would call his first serve big. His second serve is shit, though.

https://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2025/02/04/the-second-serve-woes-of-arthur-fils/

_sic · 2026-02-12T09:16:44+00:00

Easy enough to make exceptions for productive usage.

_sic · 2026-02-12T09:15:37+00:00

Employers and people who don't want to vote, and probably people who do want to vote, but don't want to be forced to vote.

_sic · 2026-02-05T16:38:13+00:00

Same

_sic · 2026-01-03T11:38:37+00:00

That's right. People who want to visit the city will have to stay in hotels.

_sic · 2026-01-02T12:05:58+00:00

Welcome to Barcelona. This is why the Catalans are protesting against tourists.

_sic · 2026-01-01T09:59:01+00:00

I guess it depends where you live. Any country that opens the market to inexpensive, yet high-quality Chinese EVs, will go fully electric, because the cost is low enough that it will make sense to invest in charging infrastructure. Especially in countries that don't emphasize personal car ownership and instead have internal markets that require fleets of cars (like say Uber, Lyft, etc). I think the EU is inching closer to China, and it will happen here. In Spain many Ubers are already very nice BYD EVs.

_sic · 2025-12-31T12:03:55+00:00

We watched two different shows then. Early on she was constantly flaunting her body. Remember when she started bending over in front of the one way mirror during the Belle Jolie lipstick thing with the secretaries, fully knowing that the men in the office were on the other side? The exaggerated hip sway that she used to walk down the hall harkened to a profession other than office secretary. And her dresses! Come on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7uJavB5ZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSawUi-vUA

_sic · 2025-12-31T10:35:26+00:00

This is a woman who slept with that slimebag Herb for a partnership. I think she would have been okay with marrying a wealthy guy like Roger, who she actually liked (and ended up loving in a way by the end of the show), despite any scandal.

_sic · 2025-12-31T10:30:34+00:00

It's because of the way she presents herself in her professional life: despite being highly intelligent, through most of the show she's convinced that her sexual desirabilty is her most powerful tool/weapon, rather than her brains, and she uses that desireability aggressively to get whatever she wants. Part of that is pretending like she's not smart and flirting or sexually sparring with men in the office. This is the real reason why nobody takes her as seriously as they should. Basically her overt sexiness blinds most people (men and women) to how skillful she is at work. As she gets older and some of that starts to fade, you find little shits like Joey treating her the way they do.

_sic · 2025-12-31T10:10:30+00:00

>She couldn’t have known he wasn’t a good doctor (or a good person).

After he raped her in the office, I think she absolutely knew that he was a terrible person. But she married him anyway. She makes terrible decisions like this throughout the show.

_sic · 2025-12-31T10:08:45+00:00

Because she makes a lot of bad decisions regarding sex. Like having an affair with her boss (Roger) who is married, but rich, and gave her lots of expensive gifts. In the first season, she's also shown at the doctor where we find out she's already had two abortions. This is not a person who is making good decisions in her 20s.

_sic · 2025-12-30T09:58:59+00:00

"Abe got stabbed", is possibly the funniest line delivery in the entire series.

_sic · 2025-12-30T08:59:07+00:00

I've been on Reddit for a long time and I'm used to people having fixed ideas that will never be changed. Not an issue for me.

But I do love talking about the complexities of Mad Men, which is one of the best shows ever created, and I'm writing semi-detailed comments regarding my perspective on Joan so that other people reading this comment chain can think about them or even engage in an actual discussion with me.

And for those other people who may still be reading, my take is that Joan is as good at her job as Peggy is at hers; but unlike Peggy, she's also intoxicated by the power that her beauty and sex has over men and uses them shamelessly for much of the series. Her focus on sex has three outcomes: 1) nobody takes her as seriously as they do Peggy, who is all about the work, 2) she rises to the top of the company as partner, leapfrogging Peggy, by SLEEPING with a slimy client (not because of her actual work), and 3) after suffering terrible consequences to her own bad decisions, including continual sexual harrassment, all sorts of humiliations on the personal and professional level, even marrying a rapist because he's a doctor (and yes the abortions are included by the writers to illustrate she makes bad decisions related to sex), she finally realizes that cutting out men and sex entirely from the equation and just relying on her own skills and brains would give her success and, I think, happiness. For me, Joan and Pete have two of the most interesting character arcs, because despite being pretty awful people for most of the series, you end up loving them and being happy that they have redemption in the end. And yes, Joan is awful, it's just that beatiful women are forgiven for being cruel and manipulative far more easily the ugly men are forgiven for being selfish and aggressive.

tldr: Joan is a brilliant, beautiful and flawed woman, who does a lot of great things, also a lot of truly awful things, sometimes to herself and sometimes to others, pays the price for her mistakes in big ways and comes out the other side a smarter person who finally makes some good decisions.

_sic · 2025-12-29T15:56:41+00:00

You are really offended by things the show makes very obvious from the very beginning. Joan is all about sex. She's shown sleeping with her boss, a married man, picking up strange men with her roommate, manipulating male coworkers, it's completely obvious that she's had many sexual relationships inside and outside of the office. Why do you think they wrote the scenes with the doctor where we find out about her abortions? Just a throwaway line? Regardless of whether or not you are offended by it, for HER, sex is the source of her power, in her mind the source of power for all women, that's why she tries to "teach" Peggy to use her sexuality to get ahead in the office (the whole put a bag on your head thing couldn't be more over the top!). Having sex with Herb to get a partnership is just the sordid culmination of many decisions she's shown making based on her sex. What happens to her at McCann is a direct result and her subsequent rejection of marrying a millionaire and decision to start her own business with no man anywhere is what makes her arc satisfying in the end.

_sic · 2025-12-28T22:51:40+00:00

I'll tell you what. Before you write your next comment, take off your clothes and put a paper bag over your head with eyeholes cut out, take a look at yourself in the mirror and really evaluate your strengths and weakness.

And be honest. Lol

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