really weird to think about the ways in which american culture is engaged in a conspiracy to pretend that beauty has nothing to do with sex and sex has nothing to do with having children
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It's like the blue-eyed islanders. if it was common knowledge that it was common knowledge that it was common knowledge, society would instantly collapse.
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The function of everything in our society is status. Including having children.
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status is about children too
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feel like i just heard a glass break, a turntable screech to a halt, and someone spit out some water 😂
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nice those are the good tweets 😎
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The former is not entirely odd with regard to human cultural history but the latter most definitely is.
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Funny how so much falls into place and makes sense with these things in view. If sex was only about pleasure then our innate high weightings and taboos make little sense.
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given the large swath of americans who insist that those things are inextricably linked (they really aren't in lots of cases), and use that as a justification for "if you didn't want to get raped you shouldn't have looked nice" or "gay people can't have sex", this is an odd take
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guessing that this is sort of a memetic tribes thing and the one is a reaction to the other
like QC is pushing back against something that's pushing back against the swath you describe
but see also "everyone is beautiful and no one is horny"
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I often think that this phenomenon is the result of subconscious actualisation of the normative. People think that beauty and pleasure *shouldn't* be limited by their evolutionary origins so they act like they already aren't.
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