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0 pointswhacked_new17y ago0 comments

I find this situation very perplexing because there seems to be a grossly unsustainable "mating economy" here but I have never seen a discussion addressing it (possibly because they seem to be held by, almost exclusively, men).

But consider this scenario. There are a group of farmers, who only know how to plant food X. For one reason or another, food X starts tasting bad. Then, the farmers discover a food Y in the vicinity, and decide to eat that instead. Meanwhile, they still only know how to plant food X, and they also don't know what is really causing food X to taste bad, nor where or how food Y appeared, and why it tastes better.

In this case, who can really excuse themselves, claiming that they are really an unfortunate victim of unexpected food spoilage?

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huherto17y ago

I do not understand your analogy. Please explain.

whacked_newOP17y ago

Women don't spontaneously mutate into bad women. The problem is likely deep, and societal. If it is societal, then we might (irresponsibly) say that the society produces bad women. If this is the case, then, speaking extremely, at some point you'll run out of the "good" non-native women, but the society is still a factory of bad women. Unsustainable.

This strategy reminds me of: we need energy; drill oil; oil dries; find new; repeat.

And never have I read someone talking about this, at least in regards to a sustainable society.

Tangurena17y ago

This was part of the point of Naomi Wolfe's book The Beauty Myth - that our "standards of beauty" are dysfunctional and "the system" is, as you put it, "a factory of bad women." Many survive and thrive despite the faulty process.

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