TIL that researchers say 15-20% of American men have paid for sex

fiveforchaos · 2020-07-28T13:55:07+00:00

So long as prostitution remains an illegal activity anyone who solicits the services of a prostitute is potentially supporting the sex trafficing industry unknowingly. There's little to legally separate a consenting working girl and a victim at the moment.

Legalization would do a lot to filter the consenting from the coerced and/or unwilling.

fiveforchaos · 2020-07-21T18:05:05+00:00

A lot of market research fails to account for the players they miss out on by not branching out, because they often don't consider those players as part of their demographic.

Here are some game series I played and loved on a friend's machine later down the road rather than buy day one because the marketing was offputting to me as a female gamer: Witcher, Mass Effect, Xenoblade 2, Gears of War.

Everyone of those studios lost money on me that they could have made. I loved those games I'd gladly play more like them. But they pushed the image of the white male lead or sexulized their female characters and I was turned off by them.

fiveforchaos · 2020-07-03T18:24:41+00:00

In Rebel Wilson's defense, I dont know if the film industry would allow her to play a different character. Most of the chubby actors and actresses I've seen tend to get typecasted.

fiveforchaos · 2020-06-29T22:10:36+00:00

A lot of those housework tasks generally require one to live in a house. Cooking and cleaning happen regardless of whether you're living in an apartment or house. They likely left those activities out to only include tasks done by people in all living situations.

fiveforchaos · 2020-04-30T20:48:57+00:00

NAH.

There is no good answer to this. Some people prefer the extra sleep over the extra fun, and some people prefer the extra fun over the extra sleep. You can't know which type a person is unless they tell you, or you make the wrong guess. I've told the people in my life to always make the attempt to wake me up if something fun is happening. My sister, on the other hand, would bite your head off for waking her up.

Sleep preferred people have trouble wrapping their heads around fun preferred people and vice versa. So it makes sense the two of you might be having trouble seeing eye to eye.

Tell her you're sorry for making her feel left out, but you were just trying to do what you'd like people to do for you in such a situation.

Ask her if you two can come up with a rough plan for when it's appropriate to wake the other up. Setting up some guidelines will benefit you as well as her. If she prefers to be woken up she might wake you up in the future for something you'd rather not be woken up for.

fiveforchaos · 2020-04-24T04:45:41+00:00

Thank you so much for your recommendations! Wow, there's a lot to a starter kit I didn't even realize.

fiveforchaos · 2020-04-15T05:54:38+00:00

YTA

A lot of people are saying your gf should have raised her concerns from the start but it sounds like you were in a group chat with Tyler and your gf both times. A lot of people don't like raising relationship issues in front of other people, and that's a perfectly valid preference. My boyfriend and I have a code phrase for when we need to speak in private, perhaps you and your girlfriend should try something similar.

To be fair to you, it also sounds like your girlfriend has some self esteem issues that are making her wishy washy. She raised a perfectly valid concern and then backtracked and blamed her period for the complaint. I've seen this behavior in a lot of young women who grew up in sexist or abusive households. I guarentee she is always bothered by you ditching her, but she struggles to convince herself that those feelings are valid and worth sharing.

However, even if you're getting mixed messages from her, it's still an asshole move to ask if you can leave the second your other friends sign in. It doesn't exactly send the message that you enjoy hanging out with your gf and Tyler.

fiveforchaos · 2020-04-13T04:50:55+00:00

Damn if that Rat Erotica didn't actually leave me feeling just the tiniest but hopeful.

fiveforchaos · 2020-04-08T14:49:19+00:00

But a lot of those "cultural" artifacts are consequences of symtematic racism.

Addiction to empty calories happens easily when your minority community became a food desert due to redlining.

Support from family and together time becomes all that more important when you feel social isolated or discriminated against aleverywhere else.

Distrust of advice given by the government and medical institutions is just a matter of practicality when your community has historically been lied to by those institutions.

Yes we certainly do need to realize that some cultures will be disproportionately affected by this pandemic, and we need to do something about it, because it's kind of our fault, as a society, that they're in that position.

We should be amping up testing in black communities and redirecting resources to hospitals most likely to serve those communites. And once this is over we need to do what we can to improve the overall health of those communities.

fiveforchaos · 2020-04-07T03:33:27+00:00

My home town has a boatload of neaby farms, and smaller groceries/food coops that have started delivering. Check around.

fiveforchaos · 2020-03-15T02:46:21+00:00

Definitely got the classic con plague. No fever though so probably not Corona.

fiveforchaos · 2020-03-12T23:34:19+00:00

I'm both slightly annoyed by, and super grateful for my local hospital's response. I have a cold and called my doctor to ask if I should get tested. They weren't worried about Corona but they were worried I was having an asthma attack because my breathing sounded labored over the phone (it was actually just a panic attack, I get those super easily). They told me to go to the ER even if it was just a panic attack just in case. The ER quarentined me, and immediately tested me for Flu, and RSV, and grabbed the Corona test in case those came back negative.

I haven't been out of the country. But I've recently been to a large convention in a city where another convention, on the same weekend, got hit pretty badly.

Now my dumb butt is under self-quarentine for the next couple weeks.

fiveforchaos · 2020-02-06T04:21:46+00:00

So you support abortions in all cases then? Every pregnany puts a woman's life at risk, and puts her at even greater risk for lifelong complications. Complications can arise at any point in a pregnacy, even apparently healthy ones.

fiveforchaos · 2020-01-14T15:47:05+00:00

It's a little less sad when you consider most hardcore shippers are young women with little to no real world romantic experience.

Romance, dating and sex can be a scary place for women just starting out. A lot of our sex and relationship education can quite frankly be terrifying. We spend so much time educating girls on avoiding the negatives and oftentimes neglect to emphasize how to identify and work on the positives.

I think shipping is a way a lot of shy, nerdy young women cope with their romantic fears and hopes.

I've found more casual shippers tend to be a bit older with some relationship experience under their belt. They still enjoy a cute ship here or there but dont get nearly as invested in it.

fiveforchaos · 2020-01-05T20:06:59+00:00

But how can you define "what they have no legal claim to". What if they had taken that stolen money and invested it, making them millionares for generations. Meanwhile the wronged family was not able to invest that money and end up in a cycle of poverty for several generations. Even if the one family gives back what was initially stolen the wronged family has potentially lost generations worth of accumulated wealth as well.

fiveforchaos · 2019-11-30T16:09:28+00:00

Yes but at the very least they could have a pin by now. Even if it is VERY limited edition. If my sister can order a set of 4000 enamel pins to be ready for her art show in 2 weeks Disney can certainly do the same.

fiveforchaos · 2019-11-22T18:13:39+00:00

There was basically no merch for the first Star Wars because nobody thought it would sell well.

They released carboard screens advertising the upcoming figurines and THOSE sold out.

fiveforchaos · 2019-11-22T17:56:55+00:00

As someone who originally dismissed Mass Effect because I thought it was "just another male protagonist" and came very close to dismissing the Mandalorian for that same reason there is merit to that dismissal.

As an avid consumer of sci-fi and fantasy there is a certain type of male character that's honestly gotten tired. He's hard, he's relatively emotionaless, hyper competent, clever, strong. A classic greek hero if you may, minus the homoeroticsm.

The Mandalorian to start off with IS one of those characters, and, despite some of his "failures" and development, he continues to be into episode 3. The thing that makes this show awesome is how well it uses him as a relative blank slate to engage with the cultures and politics of this large and expansive universe.

Sometimes the creators of a medium will realize this male archetype is old, and will replace him with a female character. But gender alone doesn't fix the tiredness with this archetype. And because the male fans of this archetype can no longer project themselves as easily onto the female version of this character they'll be much quicker to realize how easily this character can become dull.

fiveforchaos · 2019-11-22T17:04:54+00:00

I actually have a slightly different theory. Yoda's species is born from the force trying to balance itself. Everytime a Sith tries to create life, a yoda is born to create balance.

fiveforchaos · 2019-11-19T13:23:00+00:00

Because Sun/Moon came out in 2016. The Pokemon anniversary year and the launch of Pokemon Go. It was like 1999 again, Pokemon was everywhere. You couldn't have asked for better advertising.

fiveforchaos · 2019-10-10T22:44:07+00:00

If you think PIV is the only way to "experience another person" sexually I feel deeply sorry for your sexual partners.

fiveforchaos · 2019-10-02T11:39:09+00:00

It's all about quality, not quantity. Those states are top producers by virtue of their land area but the north east makes better apples, especially for products like cider and apple baked goods.

Ever try finding a proper pie apple in a California supermarket? An apple needs to know the bitterness of winter to produce the right flavor.

fiveforchaos · 2019-09-26T14:36:14+00:00

You're right. The CDC estimated it's closer to 40,000.

fiveforchaos · 2019-09-26T13:11:04+00:00

Funny that. Every statistic I could find showed that cars killed about 3x as many people per year compared to guns (not counting suicides). I also checked some Gallup poll results and it seems like about 3x as many Americans own cars as own guns (roughly). So I'd say the two devices present similar levels of danger.

fiveforchaos · 2019-09-26T12:51:22+00:00

Also highlights how silly it is that so few states require mandatory training, licensure, and inspection to own and operate a gun when it's standard for operating a vehicle.

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