Daily Archives: 20 March 2016
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Is this Black comedy?
They couch the precipitous decline of women’s happiness in feminist language — a “gender gap in happiness” — as if more poison would make things better.
—“By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging — one with higher subjective well-being for men. “—
A veteran’s moral outrage at bellicose politicians
I think it’s difficult for us to admit that people willing to conduct violence in exchange for money and status are plentiful. So while I applaud the appeal to moral outrage on behalf of the trigger pullers, it alone isn’t enough.
At my alma mater, Stanford, a curriculum which used to address questions like “what is justice” in its Western Civilization requirement was put on the chopping block in the name of a broader and much shallower curriculum full of cultural relativism.
But at the same time, exposing the cowardice and hypocrisy of politicians is ALWAYS a good idea.
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-vast-divide-between-america-and-its-military/
When Communists Realize they are Not the Majority
“In most communist movements, there comes a moment when they realize that they are not the majority. Post WWII France and the Bolshevik election failures come to mind.
Something similar keeps happening in America which is why American communists re-brand so often.”
I’m thinking of how BLM and anti-Trump antics have only increased his popularity.