1. Could be a cultural difference between the UK and US. I don’t know a lot about the history of courtship, but anthropologists in 40s identified differences between US/UK in the US girls made the first move while UK the man was meant to make the move.
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2. During the war, this led to dating problems between US servicemen and British women, bc nobody did anything when they were meant to. US servicemen saw British women as cold while British servicemen saw US women as too forward.
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3. Even as late as the 1970s, you see people like C. Hitchens writing about how refreshingly forward American women were about sex. But I suspect the deep behaviour of humans is not so different and probably not so different between individuals either.
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4. Women have an incentive to keep dating secret to maintain the appearance of not being sluts, and also to conceal what they’re doing from other men they’re cheating on (planning to cheat on).
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Replying to @tomxhart @jbthazard
Neither UK or US based, but your point stands nonetheless. 4. might be where I was getting at in some sense, just less explicit. I dont think it has to be deliberate malice, overtly planned and such.
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I could imagine the sensation of dating at all, focusing your attention on one particular man, to some degree feels like cheating to women, in that their starting point is something like feeling attached to *all* men.
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It's easy to paint a dark picture of this, but I dont think it is any more evil than a spider building a web
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Replying to @egg_report @jbthazard
It feels dark, becuase this is not the socially acceptable way to talk about it. Whether it’s “evil”—whether evil exists or not—is an open question for humanity right now. We are different to spiders. We do seem to have intentionality and an ability to alter our environment.
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What’s your nationality,
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Replying to @tomxhart @jbthazard
Undisclosed location in northen europe. I read a lot, used to travel a bit for workpic.twitter.com/PdKM6vQUT8
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Scandinavians & Germans. The uncanny valley nationalities. They do everything so well it’s peculiar. They speak English better than the English. Arabic better than the Arabs. The middle class homes are obscenely well balanced, not too much and not too little. Just p-e-r-f-e-c-t.
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Replying to @tomxhart @jbthazard
scandinavians are very malleable people innit
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Replying to @egg_report @jbthazard
I understand how the Nazis came to see themselves as the herrenvolk. It’s understandable when you meet people from the region. Their weakness is they’re so good that they become arrogant...”There’s a crack/A crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in...”
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