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Here's a tip for making your experience flying in an airplane more comfortable: just wear sweatpants for the trip.

This was something I never thought up myself, but I saw a co-worker on a business trip doing this, and I realized the genius of it. Who are you trying to impress when you are flying? The pilot? The stewardesses? Your fellow passengers? That attractive woman you saw during a layover who was going to a different destination?

Wearing something comfortable just makes things easier.

@Tfmonkey It does not surprise me that he was on steroids, as he has a body that is almost impossible to attain naturally.

You can pick 2 out of the three:

Big
Lean
Natural

Given he was big and lean, he clearly was not natural.

You can still lift weights and get a decent appearance while being natural. You just might not look as impressive for the normie masses who do not realize that you need to be taking steroids to look like this guy.

@37712 @dander I would not say that for sure. Most people in Japan (and much of the 1st world) have never had a perspective different than what had been in place since the end of WWII. The very idea may be unthinkable to most people who grew up in a world where "equality" is the most important value. A select few may know this, but I doubt many in leadership roles have this in the back of their mind with the world the grew up in.

There would be a lot less stress and anxiety in society overall if we stopped fighting against what nature intended. I specifically am referring to women and their general desire to have children who instead choose the career path and/or grad school path because they were told they needed to go out there and be accomplished.

Many of them do not even want to any of this and would rather be stay-at-home mothers. But apparently social stigma is stronger than biological urges. But only to a point.

@deprecated_ii Yes, wizards who were so shut off from the rest of society that most wizards know little of customs outside of their own would totally have gay marriage in their society.

Okay, perhaps they would say that because of how they were previously having conflict with those without magic, they felt sympathy towards the gays because of said prejudice. But I say that's bullshit and not how any people behave. Even if they are magic.

@WashedOutGundamPilot To elaborate on the "insult," it is that I would feel taken for granted by a woman who spent her fertility window avoiding men like me in order to do whatever the hell she thought was more important than seeking a husband and starting a family. So many women claim that they want that for their future, so what is the reason to wait?

Often, the answer is so that she can "have her fun." Which implies that she thinks quite little of her (hypothetical) future husband.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Also, my guess would be she is looking for men near her own age. This will mean that she has limited options as most men her age are off the market, seeking younger women, or just not caring about marriage at all.

Speaking as someone from the first group, I will say that I knew that I wanted to be married and made sure to prioritize that as soon as possible. I would be insulted by a woman who waited until her 30s to do the same, as I would ask what was she waiting for?

@WashedOutGundamPilot That "edge case" is usually woman who already had several children before, and was due to the fact that having previous child pushed her fertility window back further.

This woman is just another case of spending her 20s not putting focus on finding a husband. Even if she was not doing the whole hookup culture and "casual dating" during those years, the question still remains, what was she doing all that time?

@WashedOutGundamPilot No way this is real. I saw Captain Marvel and in that movie, Brie Larson's character was the best pilot ever. And we all know Marvel movies are super accurate to reality, as 110 lb women also regularly take down linebacker sized men in real life too.

This does show that there is a whole lot more to pilot capabilities than G force tolerance. Maybe having more testosterone is critical for dealing with high stress scenarios such as flying a fighter jet?

@IAMAL_PHARIUS Interesting. That is something that will never happen in any US or European court. Is it any wonder that marriage and birth rates are down?

This just tells me that China might be the country that is capable of turning around and get their birth rates above replacement once more. They are willing to go against the feminist imperative, which is the cause of the below replacement birth rates.

@basedbagel My guess would be that they would hope that Germany/Germans would not find out about this plan. Or if they did, they would still go along with it because they do not have better options.

@basedbagel To elaborate, immigrants can come immediately and start working and paying taxes (assuming they are legal and all that). It takes a couple of decades to solve that same issue with natural births being increased. Plus, the actual solutions to having higher births (i.e. taking women's rights away) are always politically unpopular.

So immigration it is. But "at least they are white" might make some people on the right happy, but think about the German politics/government now.

@basedbagel
Yes, the current Germans would not be having enough kids either, but they can come and work right away as adults without any investment in terms of children being born and educated.

Just like all other cases of immigration, it solves the problem temporarily. Just long enough for the current politicians to be able to say "we fixed it" in the short term, they can retire wealthy while kicking the can down the road.

@Pain66 If the type of man that she wants to have as her future husband knows about her previously doing OnlyFans, he is not going to want her. So she will have to lie about her past, which would eventually become revealed.

I do not blame men who say they do not want to get married. Not if the women behave like this.

@deprecated_ii Must be someone's last name. God help any children who would be in school with name like that.

Therefore, the male equivalent of a slut is not merely a man that is too willing to give out his commitment to women in terms of being willing to enter a relationship, but being too easy to give away his resources to women. The man that gives money to OnlyFans models is far more fitting for that equivalency. Like a slut giving out sex too easily, the man who gives up his finances to women too easily is the true equivalent to a slut.

Something occurred to me when the discussion of gatekeepers of sex came up on the "whatever" stream (not worth watching full through). The women were talking about "male sluts," showing that they do not understand the roles men and women play as gatekeepers. Women are the gatekeepers of sex, and men are the gatekeepers of commitment. But what is "commitment" in this context really? It is not really about being devoted to one in a relationship, but more about committing one's resources.