https://open.substack.com/pub/saraszalmd/p/the-female-body-was-not-designed

Heterosexual men report orgasm during partnered sex 95 percent of the time. Heterosexual women: 65 percent. Lesbian women: 86 percent, a rate comparable to heterosexual men. A 2024 scoping review of the full body of evidence concluded that the orgasm gap is largely driven by social dynamics rather than biological mechanisms.

Interesting to witness societal decay in real time.

It’s amazing how popular this ancient philosophical metaphysical perspective is. Even Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic, responded with a similar concept when asked in his questionnaire what happens when we die?

Moksha (Hinduism), Nirvana (Buddhism), returning to the Tao (Taoism), Neoplatonism (ancient Greece), Fanaa (Sufism/Mystical Islam) - over millenia, so many traditions have been captivated by the idea of rejoining with “the One”.

Within Hinduism is the nonthestic framework promoted by Adi Shankara known as Advaita Vedanta which is Sanskrit for nonduality. This takes the concept even further, positing that we are one eternally and that individuality / self are spiritual Maya or illusion.

It’s amazing how popular this ancient philosophical metaphysical perspective is. Even Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic, in his final episode responded with a similar concept when asked in his questionnaire what happens when we die?

Moksha (Hinduism), Nirvana (Buddhism), returning to the Tao (Taoism), Neoplatonism (ancient Greece), Fanaa (Sufism/Mystical Islam) - over millenia, so many traditions have been captivated by the idea of rejoining with “the One”.

Within Hinduism is the nonthestic framework promoted by Adi Shankara known as Advaita Vedanta which is Sanskrit for nonduality. This takes the concept even further, positing that we are one eternally and that individuality / self are spiritual Maya or illusion.

Meditation but it would take a while to get there. It is fun to work towards it though.

The real answer is that the right side of the political spectrum has lost many of the major conflicts in recent history (civil war, ww2, segregation) - though this is absolutely not true globally. Theres no way to know for sure but we may perceive history very differently if those conflicts had different outcomes. Ultimately, history is written by the victors.

By winning these conflicts “liberals” have been able to shape reality according to their vision but the problem is they’re so used to winning now that they’re not (ideological) battle ready and some conservatives are just itching for some big wins and the oppurtunity to drag us all back into the stone age.

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It’s a stereotype that’s the reverse of the stereotype explained in the article. In most of Europe, perhaps with select exceptions, nobles looked down on the use of spices in cuisine when they became accessible to ordinary folk via colonialism. That led to a bit of an elitist attitude against spice which was the attitude I feel was the mainstream even as recently as the 90s in settler colonial nations from those of European descent. The vibe was, to be brief and blunt “don’t eat that you’ll never stop shitting” and real food is steak, casserole, meatloaf or whatever.

The reversal of that stereotype, since the Europeans that generally looked down on spice only make up 20% of the global population and most other regions enjoy it, was to say “no actually you’re the one with the bland food, it’s not that our food is too spicy”.

There’s exaggeration on both fronts but it’s interesting to see these different perspectives. Both have evolved over time.

Trevor Noah does a funny bit in his most recent standup where MLK Jr and his buddies go to a white diner - for the first time after ending segregation - and after having the (relatively) bland chicken, question everything they fought for.

Evolutionary psychology and anthropology do not support this conceptualization. Hunter gatherer societies were egalitarian and survived on cooperation. If one member was violent and/or seen as relatively unpredictable they were simply left behind (ostracized) or killed by the rest of the tribe (capital punishment).

In fact, some evolutionary biologists believe this collective culling of highly aggressive individuals over tens of thousands of years actually self-domesticated humans, making our species naturally more cooperative and less prone to random internal violence.

This is what anthropologists refer to as a reverse dominance hierarchy ie. the individual attempting to dominate would be culled while the cooperative collective was the truly dominant force. It’s, in a way, a precivilizational form of democracy.

One has to wonder if we’ve forgotten these ancient corrective mechanisms.

Wow this post made me so grateful for the women in my life (for not being this way).

This is much more cultural than it is biological. Protection doesn’t equate to violence outside of the extreme circumstances.

There are many reasons but one is that modern European cuisine (over the past several centuries) generally looked down upon spice.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking

I’ve always wondered if Hot Ones was a concerted effort to broaden the horizons of those who were traditionally opposed to spice.

True if we’re mainly focusing on pharmaceuticals and devices but theres more to medicine than that.

I would argue racism against south Asians is fairly normalized also as there have been targetted hate campaigns online which spill over into the real world. It goes back to the model minority myth and both not being a traditionally disenfranchised group.

The Kailasa temple was a multi generational effort over more than a 100 years. It was typically a family of artisans across generations.

OK short term but comes with increased risk of all cause mortality if you stick to it for long (especially after 5 years, it rises exponentially if more than 20 years).

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies night shift work as a Group 2A “probable carcinogen.” Suppressing melatonin (the sleep hormone) via artificial light at night disrupts natural cellular repair, increases oxidative stress, and alters DNA repair mechanisms, increasing the long-term risk of cancers (particularly breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers).

Best to keep it to less than 5 years to minimize risk. Employers should ve compensating substantially if it’s longer than that.

The Bengal famine was not even the largest British engineered famine in India.

Britain has a borderline unfixable economy - according to expert economists - and is about to put the final nail in the coffin by electing Reform so perhaps what goes around comes around.

Looking at recent history, some have more than others and have the riches to show for the destruction they engaged in.

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?

Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

With regard to Bengal and India as a whole:

British policy resulted in the death of 100 million people during the Raj. The Bengal famine is just one example and was not even the most deadly.

In Bengal:

• Fearing a Japanese invasion through Burma, the British enacted a scorched-earth policy in coastal Bengal. They confiscated or destroyed tens of thousands of boats, bicycles, and carts (the lifeblood of the local transport and fishing economy) and seized rice stocks so the Japanese couldn’t use them. This completely destroyed the rural economy.

• Stockpiled food strictly to feed military troops, civil servants, and industrial defense workers in Calcutta. Rural peasants were entirely abandoned to the market.

• To pay for the war, the British printed massive amounts of paper currency in India. This caused the price of rice to skyrocket by up to 600%, completely pricing out rural laborers.

• When the scale of the famine became global news, other countries offered to help. Canada offered to send ships loaded with 100,000 tons of emergency wheat. The United States also offered food aid. Churchill’s government turned them down, refusing to provide or allow the shipping vessels required to transport the grain to India.

• To protect Britain’s international reputation during World War II, the British colonial government heavily censored the Indian press. They banned newspapers from using the word “famine” or publishing photographs of the skeletal bodies lining the streets. It wasn’t until a British editor of an English-language newspaper in Calcutta broke ranks and published gruesome photographs that the British public—and the world—realized the scale of the horror.

When British officials in Bengal like Leo Amery petitioned Churchill for aid he responded with:

• Stating it was the fault of Bengalis for breeding like rabbits.

• Asking why Gandhi hadn’t died yet.

• Stating that he “hated Indians” as they are a “beastly people with a beastly religion”

To which Amery replied: “I am by no means sure whether on this subject [India] Winston is really quite sane… I told him that I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s.”

I don’t fault you for a second for not knowing. Most people don’t know this history because they didn’t want you to know. But it’s all available in the public record if anyone wants to learn more.