Forced endogamy, is that the game we're playing?https://twitter.com/i/events/1006928890990714880 …
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Replying to @LTF_01
Fun fact One of Russias major exports to Japan is dominatrices
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Voluntary matriarchy? Sign me up. Seems healthier than some.. other things.. I've seen Japan sometimes likes.
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Replying to @LTF_01
Imagine you're familiar with these institutions too? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlers_Café …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Yes, given Japan's ethnocentric culture, I'm always surprised to see such things exist in the first place. I really can't imagine the equivalent of the Big Black Café would fly anywhere except Sweden. There are some good related sections in Malcolm X's autobiography though.
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Replying to @LTF_01
There's a McWhorter podcast on Lexicon Valley--can't find it now but he interviews a guy who specializes in cross cultural profanities A bit they breeze through is variation in what's seen as genuinely *profane* over time and space Major divisions are sex, shit, and slurs
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Oh man, I really need to listen to this podcast. I think there was a study and these "worst" ones were almost always male-driven, right?
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UM! I don't think they covered that but I believe it They do talk a lot elsewhere about how language conventions tend to emerge from women more often than from men but I can imagine men and women just innovate on different fronts, statistically
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