The only “regular” TV we do anymore is Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, and then Fox. The wife also watches the Panthers’s games (I don’t). The rest is nothing but garbage and repeats. We pretty much do Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Plex. All but Prime come thru our adult kid’s accounts and so, don’t cost us anything. Prime = Amazon, so there’s the added free shipping and some other benefits, if you’re willing to sell your soul to Bezos (I personally buy stuff thru Amazon).
As for women in combat, I’m not a fan. I guess I’m an anachronism...putting women on pedestals. I just think woman are special.
Women are special.
I don’t mind saying that, and that is because I do believe there is a ying-yang kind of thing going on with us, that makes (or should make it) more interesting and fun.
There is a level of maturity that most women have (or had) that they maintain throughout their lives, and there is a level of immaturity or silliness that guys have that they maintain to a degree throughout their lives. I have always respected that reserved and mature part of many women, and appreciated with a smile that silliness found in men.
It is why we are different. We were discussing on FR one time the phenomenon where there are more men at the very top of the IQ spectrum than there are women, but there are more men than women represented at the lower end of the IQ spectrum as well. A Freeper stated that the same impulse that makes a guy light a fart on fire is the same impulse responsible for all the great things invented by men in the world, which I found hilarious to consider, that grain of truth somehow seeming valid to me.
I am a guy, and I appreciate what women bring to the table from an attitude and intellectual perspective. Females see things in a different way than I do, and instead of resenting it (as I think some guys do) I find it both illuminating and helpful.
That said, I still roll my eyes at my wife’s perspective on certain things, as she rolls her eyes at me!
However, one of the things I find distressing is the apparent current desire of a lot of young women to show that they can be as coarse, promiscuous, and stupid as young men can be. I just don’t see any value in that, and it bothers me, because there is something different about women apart from simple anatomy.
They are wired differently than we as men are, and I like that.