Mrs. Wright

The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention. For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war. George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16. Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14. In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14. In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14. The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors. I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel". We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.

Being exposed to bots that you think are humans is going to make everyone mentally ill

@BosCityJMJ @JReubenCIark You should get married in your church.

@JReubenCIark That’s a normal time line also it takes years to lock a venue in.

"We've been dating for 5 years. We got engaged last year, and our wedding is scheduled for next year." Do people not know how insane this sounds?

@JulieLovesFluff Georgette Heyer Sally Britton

My daughter asked for me to recommend a love story for her to read and they're all so smutty these days that I'm considering those Amish romance books for lack of better material. Y'all have suggestions? She's 14.

Addressing Zoomerslop. A real Gen Z quote: "Of all my friends, Israel is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to America First. I, in fact, have not talked to one Gen Z conservative that has been pro-Israel. Everybody I've talked to is questioning Israel." Listen, kids. Doesn't that seem really f--king weird to you? The main thing your whole cohort cares about is another country, one that is allied with us and kicking ass in the most Top Gun way you can imagine? Doesn't it seem weird that everyone in your generation is focused on another country that isn't even attacking us? It should seem weird because it is weird. The reason it's happening is not because Israel is relevant to all of your lives. The reason it is happening is because you're being propagandized. Let me repeat the quote in words that hit your big brothers and sisters right in the assholes ten years ago: "Of all my friends, privilege is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to Social Justice. I, in fact, have not talked to one Millennial liberal that doesn't question our privilege. Everybody I've talked to is questioning privilege: white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege." Do you think that was normal? No, it wasn't normal either. Every Gen X or older person can tell you that the young people in their generations had many, varied, and diverse interests. There was no top of mind for everyone in a generation. But the Millennials got it with privilege and Social Justice, and you're getting it with Israel and "America First." Kids, listen to me. This is not normal. This is not natural. This is the result of dedicated propaganda campaigns. You are being propagandized. The method of propaganda being used is primarily something called "reflexivity," which is a method developed by George Soros to create mass movements of belief around deliberate lies that he called "fertile fallacies." He called them "fertile fallacies" because they are lies (fallacies, errors, differences between what's believed and what's really true) that can take off (fertile) in a population. They're "lies with legs," it has been said. The method of "reflexivity" is to get everyone believing the same erroneous stuff in an increasing way at the same time. This is accomplished through local media saturation: everyone is talking about the same thing in the same way at the same time, and eventually so are your friends. Then the ideas "reflect" all around you creating a sense of social consensus and widespread belief. Reflexive campaigns are everywhere now. On the Left, we call them the "Current Thing." We have rafts of memes of the NPCs all changing their tune or saying the same thing or being reprogrammed or being hypnotized into the newest Current Thing, which changes when the media does. That's you! Now! You're being Sorosed! The reason everyone in your generation is suddenly talking about Israel is because propagandists in your midst have made Israel your "current thing." It is a reflexive campaign, and you aren't just a victim but are playing your part. The framing for that reflexive campaign is "America First." The propagandists are exploiting your love of country and frustration with bad actors in our governments and their "global partners," which are increasingly being exposed, to get you attached to a bunch of fertile fallacies about Israel, all of which play upon your fears, anxieties, frustrations, and love for your beautiful country. Here are some: "Israel is not really our greatest ally. It isn't even an ally." "We can't afford things at home because Israel gets aid money." "This is Israel's War, and I'm not dying in Israel's War." "Israel attacked the USS Liberty and isn't our friend." "Jeffrey Epstein was working with Israel." "Israel is too weak to exist on its own so it manipulates America into supporting it." "Israel is a settler-colonialist project that is doing a genocide of the indigenous Palestinians." (OOPS MY BAD THAT'S THE ONE THEY'RE TELLING YOUR FRIENDS ON THE LEFT) "Israel is a warmongering vassal state under with US protectorate status that is seeking to become a regional power by starting random wars that it drags the US into and doing genocide." (AHH THAT'S YOUR VERSION OF THE SAME LIE!) None of these (or dozens more) is accurate. They are all fallacies (lies) designed to take off in the social and emotional environments you find yourselves in, driven by media and political propagandists who have their own agendas but need your help (just like the NPCs on the Left). The reason you are so obsessed (and, yes, that's obsession) with Israel is because you are being targeted by reflexive propaganda campaigns designed to make you all fixate on this object that can be alleged to cause most of your problems. In fact, it causes few, if any, of your problems and is actively solving many problems you are blessed enough not to even know that you have. Friends, you are being propagandized. You are being led to focus and fixate on these things because it serves dark interests that are not your own. The same Soros techniques that work on the Left are being used on you, and you're helping them work. How do you stop them? 1) Stop listening to propagandists. This is actually really important. 2) Seek out the opposite side of what you're being told and try to understand the truth. 3) Use critical thinking. 4) Ask yourself if you're being asked to think about issues or asked to feel about issues. 5) Be skeptical of something that appears suddenly in the news or on platforms that everyone is repeating all the time all at once. That's how Soros's reflexivity works. 6) Understand, just like how it was true with CNN and other trusted news sources, that trusted sources can be bought, at which point they are not trustworthy anymore and are using your trust to manipulate you. The biggest anti-America operation that's happening right now is the sudden skeptical-to-hostile fixation on Israel. Notice that it's only been a thing since October 7, 2023, exactly the same time the parallel propaganda wave began on the Left. What you're participating in is the side of that same campaign tailored to your values, your anxieties, and your frustrations. No different. This campaign is rapidly turning people against not just Israel and often Jews (against your values, I'm sure), but against MAGA, Trump, the United States and its role in the world, and the Republican Party. Who benefits from that? Not you. Not us. Isn't it weird to you that so many people suddenly believe exactly the opposite of what they believed in 2022? Isn't it weird to you that everyone considers this such a big issue? It should be weird because it is. That's the signature of a propaganda campaign, and you are its primary targets.

@mi22ors @ADHDForReal Correct

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Correct. The majority of modern men are completely missing out on a completely different female mode. Instead of providing a woman emotional security, they generate anxiety in her on purpose (making her difficult and bitchy), ultimately destroying the relationship. The red pillers do this on purpose, as a strategy. Betas do this passively, without knowing. Narcissists and bipolar guys don't know how NOT to do it. Millions of lives are nuked in this way, because men don't know how to lead (or don't want to) and women don't know how to filter out problem men before they're in a relationship.

@myopiniondog @QuetzalPhoenix People dressing decently will cure like 60% of mental health issues. Looking like slop is just contagious depression.

@megha_lilly Have you read Georgette Heyer?

When women are nostalgic for regency era romance they are really just nostalgic for a time period when their superiors made decisions for them and restricted their behaviour so they couldn’t embarrass themselves.

@samswoora My hobby is church lol.

Hobbies are so funny once you have a kid. My hobby is going to work lmao

@nutthinsbac @RebeccaCNReid Never changed a diaper or babysat? Seems kind of weird in the opposite direction. Like maybe the older kids can learn how to take care of a baby without it being their everyday responsibility. Balance is good

@RebeccaCNReid Just here to say that I have seven children, ages 1-15, homeschooled, and the older kids have never changed a diaper or been expected to babysit. We have normal flaws, but my children are absolutely thriving, doing well academically, socially, have their own interests and hobbies

You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.

A common hangup when reading older novels is the idea that there's something you "miss" if you don't parse every word, when the novel pre-teevee era was meant to be read to pass the time, even the difficult ones. Just like you don't fully pay attention to a sitcom, the enjoyable way to read the tomes is to let your eyes wash over the words and let your intuition ping you to focus. All of a sudden, attention focuses, and you realize the writing is good — *really* good, and poignant, and funny. And if something doesn't make sense, you can always go back. Older literature was meant for repetitive reading, partially bc books were fairly expensive until commodified, and bc there wasn't any other form of mass entertainment. I've always felt the American school system teaches reading incorrectly for this reason. Being able to recite plot points and answer questions isn't a useful test of literary interpretation after it's obvious you have reading comprehension. Great literature is about timelessness, expanding an anecdote or a plot point into a generalist statement about the universe and its participants. The quiz mentality induces pressure in people for no reason. They subconsciously assume they're supposed to be able to rattle off facts about the books the read, which makes reading stressful for no reason. I've read a ton of books where I would struggle to tell you what actually happens. But when a passage becomes relevant, or I discuss the ideas I remember from the experience described above, it's clear I "get" the ideas of the author. It's such a weird reading tip, but if you don't feel like reading a page, just go to the next! You never know if you'll find the right circumstances to get unstuck otherwise.

Yes it hurts. Nobody who has given birth naturally is saying it doesn’t. I’ve had three home births (including one with posterior labor) and during transition I felt like my body was being ripped in half. But the moment the baby was out, my body flooded me with a wave of oxytocin and endorphins unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. The pain faded away. I felt alert, excited, and locked in on my baby. I could feel that my body immediately kicked into healing and bonding mode. That hormonal flood happens because of the intensity of labor. The pain is what drives the escalating release of endorphins and oxytocin throughout the process, peaking right at birth. Your body is designed to reward you on the other side. The pain is real. The pain is also temporary. And what your body does after is extraordinary.

What people call “racism” is basically just the existence of negative stereotypes about certain populations. Stereotypes are simply a reflection of the average behavior of those populations. So if you want to get rid of so-called “racist” stereotypes about a group, that group would actually have to change its own typical behavior. Racism, in that sense, is perfectly rational, it’s evidence that your brain is working and updating its model of reality. The truly irrational, even crazy position would be to have zero stereotypes about any ethnic group after having lived among them and interacted with them for years.

The man who searches with real hunger always finds bread, but the man who searches to prove the bakery is empty stays starving by choice. You think you're too smart for God but really you're just too scared to find out you were wrong about everything.

dude, jews rock. setting aside all politics and religion stuff, if you don't just enjoy the general vibe of global jewry, what are you even doing? "oh it's a 4,000 year old boardgame, it's lost as a living institution, lol, psyche, the jews preserved it lmao!"

"Show, don't tell," is advice that knocked the breath out of American literature. It's good advice against a specific sort of literary sin where the author turns fiction into an essay, but it's been taken to the extreme that any hints of interiority or direct description of thoughts and emotions are suspect. But telling is the superpower of a novel! Too many authors, agents, and publishers seem to think novels are just unfilmed movies, and should follow the beats and convention of that medium. Novels are uniquely suited to convey the inner life, whether calm or turbulent. They are the medium where a character can watch the steam rising from a cup of tea and find himself undertaking a ten thousand word struggle against his own beliefs, and it's more gripping than a thousand car chases. To toss away this unique feature of novels is a kneecapping of the art form.

The error is in thinking "homosexuality" is genetic at all, as opposed to a relatively common kind of developmental disorder that results in a paraphilia. We have simply been repeatedly hammered for decades with the unfounded assertion that "gay" is somehow ontologically different from pedophilia or necrophilia and in fact a "natural" variant, like "straight." But just because we have been taught to speak this way does not mean this way of speaking tracks reality, no more than it would if we divided all humans into "necrophile" and "biophile", as if a desire to have sex with corpses is just another normal, natural, and healthy genetic variant of humanity, instead of a severe disorder. This is one of most successful campaigns of "changing the language changes the reality" we've ever seen, and it's not an accident they tried to run this with "cis" and "trans." This is why it is an error to call normal, natural, healthy reproductive desires "straight", since to do so accepts the "straight vs gay" framework, just as it would in fact be giving into Transgender ideology to use "cis" to refer to real women, because to do so would accept the "cis vs trans" FRAMING. I reject this framing. I do not believe that anyone is really "trans" by nature. I believe that some human beings develop a disorder that causes them to be wildly alienated from their own sexed body, resulting in a pathological desire either to be the other sex or to not have a sex at all. Likewise, I believe that some human beings suffered a disordered erotic development that caused their erotic desires to orient towards and lock onto the wrong target, be this the same sex as themselves, specific body parts, or specific fetish objects or ideas. Hunter is pondering how it could be case that gay people are "born that way." What evolutionary benefit does it serve? But we only need to consider this question seriously if we have good reason to think people are, in fact, "born that way, " that homosexuality is a positive genetic condition that occurs by nature, rather than a developmental disorder that occurs by accident.