People, Events, Ideas

To Pokimane, who won't read this. On a scale of 1 to 5, this post has an importance of 1.

Since my browser is old, I can't access TikTok directly. I am using Tikvib, and it appears that you unpinned the GRWM in French video that you had pinned yesterday.

I was reminded of the quote, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." A discussion about the origin on Eleanor Roosevelt's Wikiquote. The accuracy of the statement is debatable; I think there is a definite tendency for females to discuss 'people' more, or at least people they know, aka gossip. And females are just as smart as males.

Anyway, I noticed that your second YouTube account, @PokimaneToo, is similar to the Black Mirror episode Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too. And it came out a few months before you created the account. No idea whether it was an influence, but that is basically my excuse to link to an interview of Miley Cyrus, who acted in that episode. One of the videos I sent to Sherine in 2013 used a song by Miley Cyrus; it's deleted, but this is from the same day. From the interview:

If she’s being honest, Cyrus thinks adoption is a great option and while she’s got no beef with people who want to have children, it’s just not a priority in her life. “For me I don’t just really think about marriage and things like this anymore… I follow a lot of feminists online and it’s kind of like, how many men do you ask if they are going to get married or have kids,” she said. “I’m sure maybe you do want to buy into Jonas Brothers and things like that but I don’t think that many men feel the pressure to have kids and to get married.”

I just want to acknowledge this viewpoint. Some people think there is a crisis of low birthrates, but other people think that low birthrates is a good thing.

No one knows the future of this whole 'intelligence' experiment. I'm hesitant to say 'sentience' because of the recent evidence that birds use grammar. Maybe even with this idea, intelligence is something that will just fade out over millions of years. Or humans will stay intelligent, but people will just not have children. (I have not read the comments on the post I made on this topic.)

So there is no real logic on whether, in 500 years, it would be better for 100 million humans to be alive at the same time or 10 billion humans. People have opinions, but aren't likely to be able to change other people's opinions.

I just want to point out that not only do people not ask males when they are going to get married and have children, they do not even concern themselves with whether males are going to be alive in the future, or if they will die while fighting in a war. Most people who are dead cannot have children; would it be fair for a reporter to interview a Ukrainian male who was walking along the street when he was abducted and forced into the army, and ask him when he plans to have children?

In late 2012, my oldest brother said he considered me to have similarities to the subject of a story about a male professor, like 70 years old, who was caught trying to smuggle drugs out of a South American country. It was at the like behest of someone who claimed to be a certain female model, who said they were being coerced by criminals. I don't remember her name, but I do know that I have photos of her. In the story, the professor alluded to sacrifices that he had made, and when the reporter asked him to elaborate, he directed the reporter's attention to the fact that he was not married and did not have children. This interaction revealed that the reporter assumed, like many other people might assume, that the professor not having children was because he didn't want children.

If his colleagues had said to him, 30 years earlier, "you should stop working so hard and find someone to marry", maybe he would have.

So, really, I think it's similar to the situation of the poll that I suggested you make, about choosing a gender to be treated worse. Which gender that people think is treated worse is probably a less accurate indicator of the truth, than which gender people would choose to be treated worse, because people often think inaccurately about things, are rewarded for thinking inaccurately, and act and say things which increase the likelihood that other people will think inaccurately as well (like not correcting falsehoods, but just changing the subject).

Also, unrelated

Poll: "Can people who think that opposite genders can be be friends without any problems, be friends with people who don't think that?"

I just thought of that from your second pinned TikTok video, about your gifts to your friends, and how the party would not have worked as well if males were present.