Ways of improving your social capital?

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7Wannabe5
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I did briefly qualify for free government cheese coupons because I gave birth while still a college student. The nurse who was filling out all the paperwork had to suggest some sort of risk for my already very large and chubby baby if I did not receive the coupons, so she laughed and wrote down "anemia" because he was naturally about as pale as a human can get without genes for albinism. The married graduate student housing office also had cans of free government meat stamped with pictures of cows or pigs for all takers. It was so tough, there was almost no way you could render it edible; not even in chili.

The totalitarian socialist government of North Korea went so far as to provide something like unto sugar babies to its elite class and even workers prior to the great starvation. However, they weren't very fancy, not like the kind you can get in the West. They were more like Lentil Babies or nurses in some busy, low-rent district urban hospital.

Jason

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Nuuka wrote:
Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:04 pm

But I still think considering the string of movies that Woody has produced that he clearly proofs capability of understanding complexity of human life and nuances of it. Perhaps the artist has to go to the bottom to truly understand life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MohiJL0KolU

7Wannabe5
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@Jason:

Pretty clear that Woody meant for the giant breast to be representative of pre-Scientific Pantheist religions in that scene. However, although I agree that this is somewhat apt, I feel like the fact that he also conceived it as composed of modern technology pretty well muddled the matter. Of course, he does seem to be of the disposition to look to the past and the future through lens of anxiety.

Anyways, I think we can all agree that making use of intelligence to transform anxiety into humor is a good way to improve social capital. Making use of your own adopted step-daughter, not.

reepicheep
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@7Wannabe5,

Relieving. Youth is not a viable long-term investment strategy.

One of my partners is having a backside of his 50's birthday party soonish. I appreciate that he also (and mostly) dates people his own age.

I'm suspicious of men who don't. And wonder if older women who struggle to find what they want* look at me with envy -- or pity for my future.

*Mom insists on monogamy and commitment from men who have mostly been divorced and burned a couple times already, or the ones smart (or something) enough to have never married. It's not working out for her, and hasn't in the 15 years she's been trying it. I did not introduce her to the partner closer to her age than mine.

7Wannabe5
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reepicheep wrote:And wonder if older women who struggle to find what they want* look at me with envy -- or pity for my future.
Well, as with most things, it depends a good deal on whether you have a perspective of scarcity or abundance. From my perspective, my middle-aged divorced or never-married or polyamorous peers are kind of like thrift store or severe mark-down clearance or free to borrow table items. No shortage of availability, although you do need to check for missing buttons and broken zippers etc.

Also, since I have been peer, younger, and even older woman in various relationships, I have a pretty good feel for the pros and cons of either role all other things being equal (which they never are.) Most frequently a rough trade off between respect and cherishment. Individual personality types, experience, and culture can definitely be larger factors than age. For instance, one of my peer partners had a much younger, quite beautiful partner, but she was, according to him, way more bossy than me. In fact, she used to even yell at him for being "too lazy" in bed. :lol:

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