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3 votes
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The data are clear: The boys are not all right
13 votes -
The US empire is crumbling before our eyes
9 votes -
Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
8 votes -
Ten tips for real-life socializing (for the internet-poisoned brain)
15 votes -
Despite recent advances, disabled people cannot yet participate in society ‘on an equal basis’ with others – and the pandemic has led to many protections being cruelly eroded
15 votes -
The new puritans
18 votes -
Identity fraud: On the rhetorical weaponization of identity
4 votes -
In the Afghanistan countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them
11 votes -
Dubai is a parody of the 21st century
18 votes -
Modern Luddism and the battle for your soul
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Do you know any books, articles, videos, etc. about how relationships (friendships, dating, etc) worked in the past? If so, then why do they rarely appear when people talk about them?
Occasionally people here get into discussions about social relationships, namely dating, and what quickly comes up is how both of those seem to be less common and harder to 'get'. This more...
Occasionally people here get into discussions about social relationships, namely dating, and what quickly comes up is how both of those seem to be less common and harder to 'get'. This more frequently happens in overtly dating and relationship subreddits and similar dedicated spaces, albeit, of course, this also pops up in more general communities, alongside any community where social relationships are an important topic, like communities about social ideologies like feminism or the manosphere or about genders because heterosexuality.
One thing I often find is missing is some historical context. A lot of talk about loneliness and lack of platonic or romantic relationships is basically limited to the recent past, if it even talks about the past at all. It seems like it would be helpful to look at what relationships and dating were like 10, 20, 30 years ago when it comes to talking about the problems or just general state of both today. So do you know of good sources of information concerning relationships in the past? If so, then why do you think they don't pop up in discussions about dating?
14 votes -
The city dwellers trying to build a tight-knit community from scratch
8 votes -
Masculinity attitudes across rural, suburban, and urban areas in the United States
8 votes -
To be more tech-savvy, borrow these strategies from the Amish
10 votes -
The grim secret of Nordic happiness – it's not hygge, the welfare state, or drinking. It's reasonable expectations.
19 votes -
The quest for a floating utopia: Can casting away from established society to inhabit sea-based colonies save us from the problems of modern life - or are we bound to repeat our mistakes?
7 votes -
None of our technologies have managed to destroy humanity – yet
5 votes -
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup
13 votes -
A picture of what dating looked like in the 1950s
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A factsheet about single people in the USA
10 votes -
Denmark's prime minister has apologised to twenty-two children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment
11 votes -
Denmark's new consent law leaves sex workers out in the cold – they are becoming increasingly stigmatized within Danish society
10 votes -
Why do political ads love to feature girls instead of women? Defiant young girls have become a political symbol in a country that fears grown women.
15 votes -
Living legacy
4 votes -
I hate generational hate
16 votes -
Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
12 votes -
The Bully's Pulpit - On the elementary structure of domination
3 votes -
When the world isn't designed for our bodies: A new book argues that disability is a social phenomenon, not a medical one
12 votes -
The value of extended families
6 votes -
How societies turn cruel featuring Sargon of Akkad
10 votes -
Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
5 votes -
Swedes have long embraced their version of staycations: hemester – Covid-19 travel restrictions and remote working are reshaping the tradition
6 votes -
To see how a city embraces remote work, just look to Helsinki – a deeply rooted culture of trust is crucial to the success of remote working
6 votes -
On mob justice in Nigeria
7 votes -
Our country is in chaos. But it's a great time to be an American
12 votes -
The fight to redefine racism
4 votes -
Resilience is the goal of governments and employers who expect people to endure crisis
4 votes -
Why Finnish people tell the truth – in Finland, people are assumed to be honest all the time, and trust is implicit unless proven otherwise
13 votes -
The coronavirus has hastened the post-human era
5 votes -
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change
21 votes -
The new normal
4 votes -
Swedes are used to living alone, following rules and championing innovation. How much will these social norms help during the coronavirus crisis?
8 votes -
Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war
7 votes -
The nuclear family was a mistake
14 votes -
I worry for my teenage boys – the beauty standards for young men are out of control
28 votes -
What will life be like under China's social credit system?
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C.S. Lewis - The Inner Ring
6 votes -
The Christian withdrawal experiment
9 votes -
People of Chinese descent have long faced prejudice and violence in France. But today a new generation is staking out its rightful place in society
8 votes