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  1. I'm sure most people have already heard, but the US Supreme Court ruled that the 1964 civil rights act protects discrimination against LGBTQ people on the basis of sex. And it was 6-3. I think this is huge, because even if this only applies to employment I think it will be extended to other things like housing, university admissions etc fairly quickly. This may be less symbolic than same sex marriage, but it's arguably more important.

  2. On 5/7/2020 at 11:54 PM, ants said:

    I think often having an alpha male in a modern setting can be a little cringeworthy.  In a historical setting at least you can understand the social/cultural drivers for people to rate that and desire it.  For example, in Pride & Prejudice Elizabeth being wowed by the wealth of Darcy's properties is fine.  Put it in a modern context, and you would look a bit down on someone changing their preferences based on a suitor's wealth.

    I think there is also a lot of badly written paranormal romance.  

    She wasn't, she always knew he was extremely rich, even when she turned down his first proposal, that was a joke. But her view of him did change after the letter, and changed even more after seeing Pemberley, not because it showed proof of his wealth, she already knew that, but because she saw how he treated his tenants, servants, land property, what his taste re landscape, decor etc was and so on. If she was mercenary she would have accepted Darcy's first proposal (where she met his rich titled relatives and saw their great estate: Rosings which was likely roughly equivalent in value to Pemberley, and there's a sharp contrast between the taste of Pemberley and Rosings) or she would have even accepted Mr Collins proposal where she would have been able to keep Longbourn after her father died and then she would have stayed rich at the level of her father, but not the level of Darcy.

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