lots of problems with the writing as an article (and i don't really understand the spin of 'lots of women are moving away from feminism' when it's literally just one woman) but it's a compelling story and a good one
the topic title is a totally empirical observation - my main point in posting the topic was to share an article which I found interesting.
it is true that the notion that women biologically want to be more "maternal" in nature - nurturing, etc., not dominant - is gaining more mainstream acceptance. The show "Girls", for instance, could not have been as successful as it is now ten years ago, just because it's such an honest show.
wanting kids is more fashionable now than it used to be.
because dominance is not at all useful in mothers
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I would have used something like horror stories as an example since I don't want to be brutally murdered or murder anyone myself.
Either way, it is quite fascinating how those books have seemed to cut to the core of the female fantasy. I know a lot of omen who I consider to be pretty smart who despite knowing how terribly written they are, remain compelled to finish the books and guiltily enjoy them. I mean romance novels have existed forever and I'm pretty sure they've always been similarly terrible... but it seems that those two series have become more popular than anything written in the genre before for reasons I'm not sure I understand.
Women like to be dominated by men because they can't handle independence. They need to be led, like sheep.
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I used to react more strongly against feminism until all this Twilight/Fifty Shades of Grey stuff started. Now I'm not so sure. It's like so many women want their lives to revolve around a man. Lol beta females.
At the risk of going into alpha/beta debate territory, I'm always skeptical about extrapolating feelings people have from preferences in fiction. I love Harry Potter, but that doesn't mean I want to be a wizard.
Scientific evidence shows that women prefer to be sexually submissive.
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Women have been trending toward denying feminism for awhile now, because modern feminism stopped being about equality years ago. It's about destroying the family, hating men, not having children, and being more miserable than they were before. It was never about being equal to men at all, which most reasonable women know is completely ridiculous.
I am all for equal rights for women, but modern feminism has become a bigger joke than Green Peace.
Again, you're talking only about radicals who are not the majority of people who call themselves feminists. It's still about equality, and it has always been about equality. Only now equality means things like getting equal pay for the same job (I'm talking literally the same job, not "equal work"), having men do an equal amount of domestic work when both parents work, and you know, the fact that in most of the world women don't have anything even remotely close to equal rights with men.
Modern feminism has nothing to do with hating men or the family. What you're describing is way more in line with second-wave feminism which for the most part ended decades ago.
what a beta male sheep
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it is a futurist that focuses on the social aspects
Like the Italian art movement?
More importantly, how are you trained in it? Is there a BA in Futurism?
This article paints an extremely rosy picture of the North and Puritanism, by the way. It also doesn't take into account that there are other regional cultures besides North and South.
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was that ever confirmed? he doesn't use it in the anime but i think it's a foolish assumption to make.
also, i am enjoying caster. and i am disliking saber more than i did in F/SN probably because the relationship she has with ilya's mom isn't nearly as compelling as the one she had with shirou (told from shirou's perspective). blah.
judging from ilya's comments on the fight, he only used projection; she would've def said something if archer used a reality marble
saber suffers a lot in zero, so maybe you'll enjoy that
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i remember the divinity excuse yeah, but if caster had her divinity greatly diminished by being shinji's servant, then berserker's divinity should also have been brought down quite a few pegs
i can't decide which is worse - the fact that 9 lives was more effective than excalibur, or that it was more effective than archer himself (who had a whole servant body, not just an arm)
Archer never used UBW in his fight, for whatever reason.
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so far... i think F/SN has the incredibly unique ability to layer its stories in a way F/Z can't as an anime. and the structure with a clear narrator gave the story focus and allowed for a more exploratory experience. in terms of actual tactics and masters/servants, i think F/Z has a clear edge.
The original F/Z's novel's strength lies in how it portrays Kiritsugu and Kotomine psychologically. Since most of this characterization is done through their internal thoughts, they come across as flat and dull in the anime.
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also watching berserker kick ass here is making me angry about how berserker got nerfed more and more in F/SN. he was this unbeatable monster in fate, then became a non-factor in UBW, then a joke in HF. argh.
Gil and the Sakura-shadow thing/Alter Saber are just that damn strong; Berserker was never nerfed.
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i really like the matou kid. i don't think it's been explicitly stated, but is sakura his illegitimate daughter? would make the most sense imo. and it would increase the stakes a bit and increase my respect for a dude whose primary motivation seems to be the coveting of another man's wife.
Nope. He just lusts after Aoi and is jelly of Tokiomi.
He and Aoi were childhood friends before she married Tokiomi, though.
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... which reminds me, what the F happened to kiritsugu again? he died 5 years before F/SN, right? just of natural causes or did another someone kill him?
Black mud from the grail contaminated him, leading to a slow death 5 years before F/SN.
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