This is the kind of free thinking Fascists want to crush.

The more women are paid, the less eager they are to marry. A 1982 study of three thousand singles found that women earning high incomes are almost twice as likely to want to remain unwed as women earning low incomes. "What is going to happen to marriage and childbearing in a society where women really have equality?" Princeton demographer Charles Westoff wondered in the Wall Street Journal in 1986. "The more economically independent women are, the less attractive marriage becomes."

Men in the '80s, on the other hand, were a little more anxious to marry than the press accounts let on. Single men far outnumbered women in dating services, matchmaking clubs, and the personals columns, all of which enjoyed explosive growth in the decade. In the mid-80s, video dating services were complaining of a three-to-one male-to-female sex ratio in their membership rolls. In fact, it had become common practice for dating services to admit single women at heavily reduced rates, even free memberships, in hopes of remedying the imbalance.

Personal ads were similarly lopsided. In an analysis of 1,200 ads in 1988, sociologist Theresa Montini found that most were placed by thirty-five-year-old heterosexual men and the vast majority "wanted a long-term relationship." Dating service directors reported that the majority of men they counseled were seeking spouses, not dates. When Great Expectations, the nation's largest dating service, surveyed its members in 1988, it found that 93 percent of the men wanted, within one year, to have either "a commitment with one person" or marriage. Only 7 percent of the men said they were seeking "lots of dates with different people." Asked to describe "what concerns you the day after you had sex with a new partner," only 9 percent of the men checked "Was I good?" while 42 percent said they were wondering whether it could lead to a "committed relationship."

These men had good cause to pursue nuptials; if there's one pattern that psychological studies have established, it's that the institution of marriage has an overwhelmingly salutary effect on men's mental health. "Being married," the prominent government demographer Paul Glick once estimated, "is about twice as advantageous to men as to women in terms of continued survival." Or, as family sociologist Jessie Bernard wrote in 1972:

“There are few findings more consistent, less equivocal, [and] more convincing, than the sometimes spectacular and always impressive superiority on almost every index—demographic, psychological, or social—of married over never-married men. Despite all the jokes about marriage in which men indulge, all the complaints they lodge against it, it is one of the greatest boons of their sex.”

Bernard's observation still applies. As Ronald C. Kessler, who tracks changes in men's mental health at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, says: "All this business about how hard it is to be a single woman doesn't make much sense when you look at what's really going on. It's single men who have the worst of it. When men marry, their mental health massively increases."

The mental health data, chronicled in dozens of studies that have looked at marital differences in the last forty years, are consistent and overwhelming: The suicide rate of single men is twice as high as that of married men. Single men suffer from nearly twice as many severe neurotic symptoms and are far more susceptible to nervous breakdowns, depression, even nightmares. And despite the all-American image of the carefree single cowboy, in reality bachelors are far more likely to be morose, passive, and phobic than married men.

When contrasted with single women, unwed men fared no better in mental health studies. Single men suffer from twice as many mental health impairments as single women; they are more depressed, more passive, more likely to experience nervous breakdowns and all the designated symptoms of psychological distress—from fainting to insomnia. In one study, one third of the single men scored high for severe neurotic symptoms; only 4 percent of the single women did.

-Susan Faludi, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women

Rammstein + mv/song meanings (or my interpretation of it, at least...)

part 1

AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON BESTIALITY. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S WIFE, MARTHA, WAS ACTUALLY A FERAL TALKING DOG THAT HE FUCKED ON THE REGULAR. BEN FRANKLIN HAD SEX WITH MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ANIMALS.

Barbie meme + Worcester, Massachusetts 1999 = Bück dich performance

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Hudsonbaywolf Artis ED8A1089 by safi kok

A fine urban industrial woodcut, from Max Thalmann’s 1927 masterpiece Amerika

Anno 1992 in Amerika ✌🏼

… ein wenig off topic, aber so einzigartig. Axel war 1992 mit seinem VW T2ab Bulli Zwittermodell Bulli drüben in Amerika unterwegs. Sehr eindrucksvoll.

Vielen Dank für die Einsendung.

Alaska, Amerika

Franz Kafka, Amerika

In Idaho in 1990, one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bills was vetoed by Cecil Andrus, the state's "pro-life" governor—after pro-choice women declared a boycott of Idaho potatoes. Some feminist leaders argued against such forceful tactics. "Let the governor make his decision based on the seriousness of this issue and the Constitution, not potatoes," National Abortion Rights Action League's executive director Kate Michelman advised. But it was the boycott that clinched it. "Anytime someone threatens one of our major cash crops," Governor Andrus explained, "it becomes significant."

-Susan Faludi, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women

For how long will South Africa remain a "solid" and "strategic" US partner on the continent?

The U.S. State Department terms its relations with the southern African nation as "strong" . However, US congressmen John James and Jared Moskowitz would like the ties to come under review. They introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives on Feb.06 that seeks to undergo a review of the bilateral ties between the United States and South Africa. Rep. John James accuses Pretoria of “building ties to countries and actors that undermine [the US's] national security and threaten [the US] way of life through its military and political cooperation with China and Russia and its support of U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas.” It calls South Africa's ICJ case against Israel "a politically motivated" one and claims it is "wrongfully accusing Israel". Speaking to South African newspaper Mail & Guardian , the country's top diplomat Naledi Pandor said she believes “South Africa offers quality products to the US market and I wish that relationship to grow.” “We have different views on many foreign policy matters but as a democracy, we affirm the sovereign right of states to frame their foreign policy. I am concerned at the bill drafters attempt to associate our country with terrorism and the atrocious attack against civilians in Israel.” Vincent Magwenya, spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa, told Bloomberg on Monday (Feb. 12) that “a lot of the issues raised by the members of Congress are issues that have either been dealt with through our own judicial processes or clarified in public communication.” “Following the ICJ ruling on our application, the argument that our case was wrongful or politically motivated can no longer be sustained,” Magwenya added. The bill still has to be discussed and passed...

14/02/2024