The GDF Septic Tank (Official Off Topic)

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Drag started with Shakespeare. Women were not permitted to be players, so all of the roles were played by men. In the script margin, next to the name of a female character, would be the initialism "drag," short for "dressed as girl." Meaning, this character will be played by a young man dressed as a girl.

Histocially, same-sex relationship were not legally-recognized, so without the responsibilities of marriage and children, many LGBTQ people throughout time were able to devote themselves to the arts, including theater, and drag has been a part of LGBT culture ever since.

Drag is essentially performing gender. Artists use it to illustrate the arbitrary nature of gender roles, to satirize them, and to deconstruct them altogether. It is weird to the unitiated, but once you are exposed to it, it is actually really neat.

The Greeks and the Romans had Shakespeare beat by quite a few centuries, the Romans even started to ease up about it towards the end and some women were allowed to play a few roles. Those crazy hedonists.

A lotta birthdays today, I noticed.

let's all change our birthdays to Jan 1st and break kmc

mine's jan 23'rd

https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/press-releases/2019/african-american-spending-power-demands-that-marketers-show-more-love-and-support-for-black-culture/

This is one thing that I could never wrap my head around, when talking about social politics.

On one hand, lectures talk all the time about how a group is poor. At the exact same time, marketers and PR people talk about what big spenders a group is, and how they need to take their money.

How can a group be impoverished, yet uber desirable for big business due to their spending power, at the same time? I mean, you need money to spend money. Those Occulus VR headsets aren't cheap, yet african americans lead in adapting the technology.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg

she is immortal

Originally posted by cdtm
https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/press-releases/2019/african-american-spending-power-demands-that-marketers-show-more-love-and-support-for-black-culture/

This is one thing that I could never wrap my head around, when talking about social politics.

On one hand, lectures talk all the time about how a group is poor. At the exact same time, marketers and PR people talk about what big spenders a group is, and how they need to take their money.

How can a group be impoverished, yet uber desirable for big business due to their spending power, at the same time? I mean, you need money to spend money. Those Occulus VR headsets aren't cheap, yet african americans lead in adapting the technology.

The relative poverty of a group is just something you can more or less measure by comparing how much (disposable) income and how much wealth one group holds compared to another group or the average.

A group as a whole being impoverished doesn't necessarily mean they have no money at all though, on the one hand there's still differences in spending money within a group, and there are middle class and upper class black people. But even among the impoverished people still spend money on non essentials or luxuries. And for marketers that can be a good demographic to target.

Whether that is socially good is debatable, if you look at the rate of debt through things like payday loans and layaways and other forms of predatory financing that impoverished Americans are targeted with to keep up with some advertised standard of living it makes sense to see that very critical, I think.

Originally posted by Blakemore
*theatre

smh, yanks.

Theater is an art, theatre is a place.

Originally posted by samhain
The Greeks and the Romans had Shakespeare beat by quite a few centuries, the Romans even started to ease up about it towards the end and some women were allowed to play a few roles. Those crazy hedonists.

Many cultures had men play women characters in the arts, but the term drag comes from Shakespearre.

Originally posted by Blakemore
I did taekwondo. Got very strong in the legs.

Let's see them.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Let's see them.

It's much more friendly now, black pilled acolytes of e Hitler are on his up and running grooming Discord. 😖hifty:

Whatever i mean by that.

I am expecting some sort of invasion when, minion number 1 may post here again. Just as I leave the forum. 😂

Whirly you seem to get off on forum drama a bit to much these days man. All this hitler stuff has gone a bit loony in your head. You realize there are no nazis right? The only reason you are so afraid of discord is because you feel like you don’t have a bro shield. Blake has a good time there as do many others.

The whole “oh look there is a discord” and doing this “😂” is immature. If you don’t like it you can leave it or I can remove your account however trying to constantly do this “discord Nazi” rhetoric is pretty pathetic of you. You should grow up bro or at least try. Barley anyone talks politics there anyways, your fear mongering and spreading fake news because you are scared of a boogeyman that doesn’t exist.

Originally posted by Blakemore
no.

😂

Says the Christian...

Originally posted by Artol
The relative poverty of a group is just something you can more or less measure by comparing how much (disposable) income and how much wealth one group holds compared to another group or the average.

That second part you mention iss the measure of income inequality.

The first measure you talk about, you're thinking of and wanting to highlight the HDI: human development index. It's a measure of Life (long life and healthy life), knowledge, and standard of living).

http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi

Another measure is Socio-Economic Status or SES.

The last measure I've seen is the percent of the population living in abject poverty. A great example would the the Philippines. Some areas, very prosperous and every bit as incredible as any modern nation. But in some areas, they've barely changed from the 1700s, literally living in grass huts. They have over 30% of their nation living in abject poverty. It's also why middle class and wealthy Chinese capture children and sell them into sex-slavery or slave-marriages.

Originally posted by Artol
A group as a whole being impoverished doesn't necessarily mean they have no money at all though, on the one hand there's still differences in spending money within a group, and there are middle class and upper class black people. But even among the impoverished people still spend money on non essentials or luxuries. And for marketers that can be a good demographic to target.

Whether that is socially good is debatable, if you look at the rate of debt through things like payday loans and layaways and other forms of predatory financing that impoverished Americans are targeted with to keep up with some advertised standard of living it makes sense to see that very critical, I think.

I think in these 2 paragraphs you're working your way towards Socio-Economic Mobility which is also a measure of "goodness" of a country's economy for the poor. Good SEM implies the system is not rigged against the poor and they can move up income quintiles more easily. I know you'll be shocked by this...but...the US is no where near #1 when it comes to SEM.

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Whirly you seem to get off on forum drama a bit to much these days man. All this hitler stuff has gone a bit loony in your head. You realize there are no nazis right? The only reason you are so afraid of discord is because you feel like you don’t have a bro shield. Blake has a good time there as do many others.

The whole “oh look there is a discord” and doing this “😂” is immature. If you don’t like it you can leave it or I can remove your account however trying to constantly do this “discord Nazi” rhetoric is pretty pathetic of you. You should grow up bro or at least try. Barley anyone talks politics there anyways, your fear mongering and spreading fake news because you are scared of a boogeyman that doesn’t exist.

He is implying this is some sort of master plan of mine. And you're minion #1. Pretty sad. It's the same levels of stupid as thinking Trump got 3.2 million votes stolen form him or the rona-MRA-vaccine causes male infertility. It's some basement dwelling tinfoil hat levels of pathetic.

Originally posted by dadudemon
He is implying this is some sort of master plan of mine. And you're minion #1. Pretty sad. It's the same levels of stupid as thinking Trump got 3.2 million votes stolen form him or the rona-MRA-vaccine causes male infertility. It's some basement dwelling tinfoil hat levels of pathetic.