Then again, I am neither a woman nor anywhere close to the top of the mating and/or status hierarchy, so of course my incentive structure just looks different. That’s why I’m trying to comprehend the view from the ‘other side’...
I think people think too much about the Holocaust or the Gulag when they think of war. These were exceptional events. And even the totalitarians took prisoners (although the Germans & Russians effectively exterminated their respective captives—different on W. Front).
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I must also add that a date, like a classical duel, often ends with a bang.
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Then again, I’m having trouble imagining one duelling noble saying to the other, ‘I know you want to draw first blood but I think of you more as a friend so let’s not fight any more’!
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I think that does happen, if one guy concedes that he was in the wrong and apologises—not likely if you take honour seriously.
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There’s that, yes—though those tended to be post-war images. I was thinking more along the lines of the Allied anti-German atrocity propaganda which was huge since back in WWI. Gotta get the home front to buy those ‘victory bonds’!pic.twitter.com/P6VwoVImVi
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The enemy is always a monster until you actually have to swing your sabre at him, as Bolkonski finds out in War and Peace. Then he’s just some scared Frenchy. Of course, sometime it turns out the enemy actually IS a monster. Luckyily, there are no propagandists for the sex war.
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Really? I thought the ‘all men are rapists’ radfems partially fulfilled that role!
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There are no professional propagandists that compare with the mass mobilisation of an actual war.
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True... at least none yet!
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The number of feminists (themselves a tiny group) who believe all sex is rape is tiny, though. I also sort of think they have a point. I remember a video game when I was young called “Gender Wars” or “Sex Wars” that took the whole idea seriously.
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Ha! I can scarcely imagine the fury of someone tries to make something like that today.
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