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This makes both the storytelling and the characters bad. There is no real challenges for Mary Sue because she can do everything effortlessly. She just has to realize it and tell all the naysayers that they are wrong and she is great.

This makes for a boring story and is really getting tiresome (e.g. Captain Marvel, Star Wars 7-9). Stories are better when the character has real struggles to overcome.

I suspect that the increase in Mary Sue characters in media is the result of a perfect storm of females lacking the understanding of what it means to struggle in order to earn (what men regularly experience) as well as a major lack of pushback in today's academic and corporate world.

Thus, we get story telling about female characters who are always just so amazing at everything and the only "conflict" they have is the Patriarchy holding them back from being awesome.

@ToyotaTime Men do not ask women to put on makeup, especially not to the extent this woman puts in on.

And besides, the reason men are not wanting to pay on the date is because there are too many women who do not adhere to their proper role in this courtship dynamic (as many women have abandoned traditional values), as well as the women who are only looking for a free meal with men they never intended to even consider a prospect for dating.

@Pain66 Yeah, this won't result in men just putting in no effort and/or having this system bankrupt in no time at all when women's demand for more luxury beyond just healthcare services (based on their "unique living arangements" becoming an ever increasing cost).

Men need to have skin in the game for them to work hard. This is just a system that makes the already strained issue with men having no stake in society become even worse.

@Aviz @Rasterman I suspect that governments are underhandedly forcing these video game companies to hire these people under the threat of various forms of lawfare (e.g. discrimination lawsuits). I just do not give the benefit of the doubt that the governments are not doing it because "technically we did not force them to do this" is often the claim when you finally dig deep enough to figure out that they wanted to push an agenda.

@Tfmonkey Norway was also the country to try a tax experiment to encourage people to voluntarily pay more taxes if they felt they were paying too little. They raised an additional $1325.

Granted, Norway already has high taxes, so it is not a surprise the people there would feel little motivation to pay more.

https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-professional/article/norway-instituted-a-voluntary-tax-plan.-it-raised-1-325-070717

Example of having opposition to the same thing in spite of having completely different outlooks. Cenk opposes neocons because he sees them as the embodiment of conservatives. I oppose neocons because they where conservative values like a skinsuit to pretend that they care about what the American right wants.

I may agree that we should not have infinite foreign wars, but when the question of what do we do once we stop that comes up, then we have nothing uniting us.

@HeliRides3000 >Dollar General you need to do better

This is them doing better. The alternative is they leave and the area becomes a "food desert." Low trust environments require low trust solutions.