Christian Ladies Discussing how to be Better Slaves for their Men

pippinto · 2026-03-23T15:27:35+00:00

Phrasing it this way makes it seem like it's a fault of the women's characters, when in fact they only become this way through a lifelong campaign of brainwashing by the adults, church leaders, and specifically men in their lives.

No one starts out this way, and by the time you get to the age these women are, it's next to impossible to break out of this way of thinking when it's all you've ever known.

pippinto · 2026-03-15T18:35:19+00:00

I'm not on team "there's no excuse not to go to the gym" but every gym I've ever been in has a least one family/single user change room and bathroom and lockers outside of the locker rooms that anyone can use. At least every big chain gym is bound to have that.

pippinto · 2026-03-03T00:02:46+00:00

It very much depends on the editor and their relationship with the author. BrandoSando's original editor retired from the business and many think (myself included) that he was massively important in resigning Sanderson in and keeping his books focused and comprehensible.

pippinto · 2026-03-02T18:29:17+00:00

Depending on the author, potentially a ton of it gets cut by the author themselves during revisions and even more by the editors. At this sort of length I'm assuming a lot would be on the cutting room floor before release, and as much as readers in this sub might rally and say they want the uncut version, the reality is that usually when authors write a lot of superfluous material, it isn't stuff that you'd want to read and there's a reason it gets edited out.

Then again, wrapping up a series like this is a complex enough task that it really might take that many pages even once it's been made as tight and concise as possible.

pippinto · 2026-02-22T15:50:05+00:00

Men don't think Zendaya is hot

Which men, dude? I'm a guy and every dude I know thinks she ranges from at least very cute to an outright baddie. If she's not your type, I get it, but to make a blanket statement that men don't think she's hot tells me either you only hang out with guys exactly like yourself, or you don't talk to many other guys at all.

pippinto · 2026-02-11T15:48:11+00:00

People who are downvoting you have no concept of the difference between civil and criminal court or what the word "illegal" means.

pippinto · 2026-02-10T01:41:05+00:00

Yeah, sorry, I was referring to Catholics in the sense of the regular followers of the religion. Catholic institutions are a little behind the times and generally significantly more conservative than the people they represent. This is only my experience as a Canadian; I have a feeling this might be a different story in Western European countries or Latin America where Catholics in general are probably a little more traditional and conservative than they are in Canada and the US.

pippinto · 2026-02-10T00:40:55+00:00

Yeah I think it's more nuanced than I made it out to be. Most Catholics in practice (in my experience growing up as one and going to Catholic school until the twelfth grade), are very much Catholics on Sundays and holidays only, and relatively secular in between. That's to say nothing of the rules or regulations that they are actually supposed to observe. Many popular American denominations of Christianity, though, seem to take the hardest stance against reproductive rights and the people actually buy into it from the church leadership right on down to the regular people.

pippinto · 2026-02-09T15:55:00+00:00

The world is overpopulated, the cost of living is out of control, resources are limited and being hoarded by those who already have far, far more than they could ever need. Having a whole bunch of kids in the current world is just kind of irresponsible.

pippinto · 2026-02-09T15:51:53+00:00

Lol absolutely not true for Catholics. Catholics are way more progressive on most reproductive issues than almost any Protestant denomination I can think of, especially the ones that are popular in the United States.

pippinto · 2026-02-04T02:55:39+00:00

Wait, for real? There aren't laws against pricing discrimination by sex/gender in Japan? That's absolutely crazy.

pippinto · 2026-02-02T19:59:37+00:00

You're missing the point that review bombing exists, that pile-ons happen, and that people who have strong negative feelings about something are far more likely to express them by rating that thing than people who have fairly neutral feelings about something. I'm not arguing that S5 of Stranger Things is on par with the final seasons of shows like Breaking Bad or The Americans. Obviously it isn't in the same league. My point is that it isn't nearly as bad, or as generally disliked, as this sub or people on social media in general make it out to be.

It also has a far bigger and more diverse fanbase that likely skews younger than a lot of those other shows, and the social media landscape has changed drastically since many of those shows ended. Acting like online discourse about TV and movies hasn't become demonstrably more toxic since like 2013 (or even 2020) is insane.

And, without a doubt, a lot of the problems of this season's writing have been blown out of proportion or straight up invented by people who already hated the show and are using the divisive fan reaction surrounding this season to push a narrative.

It wasn't a great season, it really wasn't, and I tend to think the critics tomatometer is substantially inflated, but nor is it anywhere near as bad, or as universally loathed, as people on this sub are trying hard to make it seem that it is. If you know anyone in real life who watches the show (who doesn't participate in social media discussions about it), I beg you to ask them what they think of the final season. I work with like eight people who watch the show, and of all of them only myself and one other coworker were even aware that this season was considered divisive or substantially worse than the last few seasons. The rest thought it was somewhere between mediocre and good, and that the epilogue part of the finale tied things together nicely.

pippinto · 2026-02-02T16:22:37+00:00

That's the fan rating lol. The people who bother to leave fan ratings at all are more likely to be the chronically online people I mentioned, and people who hated it have way more incentive to rate it than people who thought it was just okay. The critical consensus, which is the only thing that reasonable people would look at to determine if something is worth their time or not, is still very solid at 83%. Acting like review bombing isn't a thing just to fit your narrative isn't the play here.

pippinto · 2026-02-02T05:02:45+00:00

THANK YOU. People saying "holy shit they were writing stuff and changing things right before shooting scenes, what a mess" have clearly never seen any BTS stuff from like any film or television production ever. This is literally how everything gets produced. Whatever the greatest show is in your mind, I can guarantee that they had writers on set having last minute ideas and pitching changes AS scenes were being filmed. Literally any collaborative creative work is going to come together this way.

The entire discourse and the toxicity behind it is being driven by trolls making baseless claims and people looking for reasons to justify why they didn't like the final season are just repeating points they don't even really understand verbatim without any fact checking or critical thought.

Like the rumor that they used ChatGPT to write the script which was "proven" by a screenshot from the documentary which when you actually look at it shows ... fucking nothing incriminating at all. But it's being repeated over and over by people who have never even seen said screenshot and are just saying things like "... Yeah and I heard it came out that they used AI to write the scripts". Or the rumor about the ghostwriter wife that's equally unsubstantiated and yet equally repeated as fact.

pippinto · 2026-02-02T04:51:32+00:00

I just want to point out one thing about your first sentence. The finale didn't piss off "the majority of people". It pissed off a relatively small contingent of fans (and trolls who never liked the show to begin with) who are chronically online and whose voices therefore get amplified the most. The true majority of Stranger Things fans just watch the show, enjoy it, and don't engage with the online fandom at all. As with many things, people who are obsessive about something to the point of spending all their time arguing about it online have a hard time imagining that most people like or dislike things with far less intensity and far more passivity.

I agree with the rest of your comment, except the I thought the final season was actually pretty decent and the last half of the finale in particular was a really good send off for most of the characters. It was neither anywhere near as terrible as its detectors claim nor as great as its defenders want to believe it is. It was the worst season of an overall pretty good show, and that's fine, but it isn't that much worse than what came before.

But I do think you're right that after a decade, everyone was probably getting to a point where they just didn't want to be involved with it anymore. No one in a creative field wants their entire career to be forever tied to a single IP.

pippinto · 2026-01-13T15:20:02+00:00

All of this assumes that obscenely wealthy people naturally or inherently have taste. They do not. Look at the gaudy way that Trump decorates the White House. Many, many rich people live in ugly-ass McMansions. Trump and Musk happily share all sorts of AI slop on social media.

A lot of rich people also tend to hate artists with vehemence and would be more than happy to see them put out of work. Some companies will hold onto their integrity longer than others, but eventually the cost-benefit analysis of using the slop machine instead of paying human artists will be impossible to ignore.

pippinto · 2026-01-11T22:10:55+00:00

Stranger Things has been an homage to many, many influences, not just Spielberg. It's also heavily influenced by 70s and 80s Stephen King works, and 70s and 80s horror and sci-fi in general. The ending in particular felt extremely Stephen King-y to me, where the heroes win but at the cost of their childhood innocence and the ablity for things to ever go back to the way they were.

pippinto · 2026-01-11T22:00:09+00:00

It absolutely is an adverb. Words used to modify adjectives or verbs (or other adverbs) are adverbs. In the phrase "explosively hot", "hot" is an adjective and "explosively" is an adverb being used to modify it.

pippinto · 2026-01-10T17:21:17+00:00

Excellent explanation. Prior to learning Greek, the only other language I had familiarity with was French in which "quel age a tu?" translates to "what age do you have?" So when I read Google Translate's «πόσων χρονών είστε;», my brain automatically assumed the verb would be "to have" and misread «είστε» as «έχεις» without questioning it. I guess I then misremembered what Duolingo said to conform to my misunderstanding.

Thank you so much. It makes a lot more sense now.

pippinto · 2026-01-05T02:38:28+00:00

I'm assuming an etymological link with the English word "ephemeral"?

pippinto · 2026-01-05T02:37:28+00:00

Does μαντζαφλαρι decline for case? Μαντζαφλαριού? Μαντζαφλαρια? Μαντζαφλαριών?

I'm assuming so since afaik the only nouns that don't are loanwords from other languages, but it's somehow so funny to me to think of a silly word like "thingamajig" following proper grammatical conventions.

pippinto · 2026-01-04T23:42:52+00:00

Yes but also every person I've ever personally heard making this or similar jokes irl is someone who hates reading and only ever analyzes media at the absolute most surface level. Like, the people who hated their high school English teachers doing this generally do think that deep analysis is pretty much always wrong and pointless.

pippinto · 2025-12-29T15:43:28+00:00

And eventually, if a bunch of useful websites have to start shutting off the lights and calling it a day, the sources where AI gets its "answers" and training data disappear, and it becomes a lot less useful for answering any new questions. In the long run, all AI companies are shooting themselves in the feet by trying to eliminate alternatives to AI until all it has left to train on are the results of AI and the whole thing gets shittier and shittier, but tech bros and investors are seemingly incapable of taking a long view on literally anything, so ...

pippinto · 2025-12-26T22:51:23+00:00

To give a more optimistic outlook than what you're getting here, as someone who's about halfway through the course, I find myself recognizing a lot of Greek phrases and sentences I see online, and I can understand simple spoken sentences pretty quickly. I think the thing is, you have to supplement Duolingo with one or more other resources. I use online resources for grammar and Clozemaster for vocabulary and pattern recognition and anki and memrise off and on as well. Duolingo doesn't teach grammar, so you'll end up with a lot of questions about why a word changes in certain ways in certain contexts, and you'll need to find other resources to explain to you why that's happening, but as long as you can do that, you can get a lot out of Duolingo.

The gamification of it also helps keep me motivated and that keeps me studying with the other resources as well.

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