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@WashedOutGundamPilot Looking at the vast majority of how women spend their 20s, she really did not miss out on anything. Those "carefree" years would be spent on nothing of value, and she most likely would have bailed and whored out.

What she did get was something many women miss out on, having a family to call her own and be proud of. And with so many women going baby-crazy in their 30s when they are still single, she got a much better deal.

@redmaple Does this apply for most cases, or just specific areas of the world?

@WashedOutGundamPilot >only 5 years of data

How about we expand the time frame and see if those percentages change?

@basedbagel That is fine too. I find that I do not mind wearing jeans when I am going about driving from place to place or doing most other things. It is flying where I hate it, because you are constantly going through all sorts of things like security, fiddling with your luggage, sitting in an uncomfortable seat during the flight.

It is just one thing that helps offset all the other discomforts.

No, you are not going to meet some cute young thing on your flight to your destination. Your life is not a movie.

Anyone else who might look at you funny for dressing for comfort when you are already going through every other discomfort during travel is never going to see you again anyways. Why care about what they think?

So if your aversion to the idea of wearing sweatpants on a flight is because you fear others judging you for your choice in clothing, just forget about that silliness.

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.