There’s definitely overlap, but I think men have more of a tendency to view life as some kind of competition against others
I took the author’s observations about win/lose, zero-sum games to mean they were only one of the status-conferring mechanisms; but I appreciate your point. I think when you live in an imperial nation, where plentiful resources are available ultimately because of zero-sum competition, these games become pathologically normalized.
It’s probably safe to say that the anti-vaxx community, as internally supportive as it may be, finds itself in an external conflict with reality that makes nastiness inevitable. One aspect of my formative years was being part of a community for whom reality was often uncomfortable, but which was internally very supportive for most of its members. I could make that case that this was, along with the scientific environment I was raised in, a situation where status was far more linked to personal improvement and contribution to the community.
I fear I may not, however, have the patience to digest Storr’s book; I find popular books too filled with cheerful, illustrative, “human interest” anecdotes. I intend no malice by that; by way of illustration, I was frustrated with the film “Arrival” skipping fascinating details of the Amy Adam’s character’s clearly brilliant approach to inter-species communication, favouring instead a “heartwarming story of a romance scarred by premonition”. I acknowledge this ain’t “normal”… sorry to digress… must be Sunday…
It’s not just you! I too was annoyed by that, as I am with so many other Hollywood movies.
To be more on topic, I have no doubt that when the Hollywood machine makes pandemic movies, if the lead is a woman who’s also a working professional, a romance will be a huge part of the plot. (The Sandra Oh show “The Chair” is another shitty example that way.)
Some 3.5 million people in the U.S. as of Aug. 16 said they face eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey.
Covid - The Musical!
A thrilling, heartwrenching story of love, intrigue, deception and passion, set against the backdrop of a pandemic disease ravaging the land.
Coming soon in five to ten years.
Probably revolving about a brilliant virologist who put herself through college and graduate school as an exotic dancer, torn between two men working as advisors for Pence’s covid task force.
I feel like I have left out at least one vital cliché, but this is as far as I am prepared to think about this.
That’s not how I remember it. The emotional story was about bringing a child into the world that you know is going to die. The romance served that and nearly all of it happened off screen. Either before they got together or after with only a couple of flashbacks to show that they had been lovers.
I think the Chinese geopolitics would be the part of the film I’d complain about. Iirc I was glad they cut some of the book but I can’t remember what.
Also: coronavirus. Shit isn’t it?
They’re talking about % public transport occupancy here shortly in order to get all the expensive real estate occupied whether we should all be going back to the office or not. You know. Climate change?
I might not ever watch the movie Contagion again. Could music really overcome the theme of a pandemic since others found success with orphans, war, poverty, and crime? Maybe it depends on the casting. I used brain bleach for days after watching Marion Cotillard in that musical Annette.
The gospel at catholic mass today was excerpts from Mark 7, and involved Jesus yelling at the pharisees because they had told him to wash his hands before eating. Jesus then elaborates that nothing from outside the body can defile a person, and that hand-washing isn’t one of God’s rules. Seemed a little tone deaf.
(BTW, Mark 7 in its entirety sends a completely different message)
I really had no idea there were that many of them. I thought the talk stations were mostly syndicated national shows but it seems like there is an astoundingly large number of local ones working hard to get people dead of covid, including themselves.
sorry to digress… must be Sunday… 
% public transport occupancy here shortly in order to get all the expensive real estate occupied whether we should all be going back to the office or not. You know. Climate change?
