Interesting Links for 16-01-2020

[andrewducker]

Are you really at your most miserable at 47.2 years old?

November 1st last year for me. It was a good day.
(tags:happiness psychology )

Here is a trailer for a really stereotypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie. Are there any examples of this with the genders reversed? (And I don't mean "and then she meets a prince", I mean the same trope)

(tags:tropes movies trailer gender )

What is the name for this type of man?

(tags:men UK )

The terrible effects of Drop Bears

(tags:jokes military australia )

Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

(tags:Japan society property )

Sex Abuse Crisis in Amish Country

(tags:rape Amish viaSwampers )

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don't have

(tags:ants memory )

Comments

[lilysea]

Here is a trailer for a really stereotypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie. Are there any examples of this with the genders reversed? (And I don't mean "and then she meets a prince", I mean the same trope)

The closest thing I can think of is:

No Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senzxpdHStI

Manic Pixie Dream Guy

[frith]

I propose Edward Scissorhands.

[kmusser]

Wow, that is a strong contender. I was going add the Manic Dixie Dream Guy is kind of a trope character in a lot of anime, but never as a main character, always a side character played for comic relief.

Japan and lost property

[claudeb]

That's such a load of bull. In Europe and North America, we also typically:

- get taught from a young age to return found goods. *Everyone* knows that;
- believe there's a God watching us all the time. And a Santa Claus;
- have a large police presence. Often intimidatingly so.

None of that can explain the difference. Culture however might, but not in the way they claim. What we *also* have in western, Christian-dominated cultures is a disgusting amount of hypocrisy: *nobody* acts the way children are taught it's nice to. And people follow behaviors, not words.

Funny bit about umbrellas, though.

Re: Japan and lost property

[ninetydegrees]

Agreed. My fellow countryfolks have a deep-seated and long-lasting irreverence and disrespect for laws and can be completely inconsiderate and selfish. The rules are for others, not them, when it's convenient. That being said, I've had always items, valuable or not, returned to me if it was possible to do so. Also, Japan is pretty infamous when it comes to other (public) behaviors (like plenty of other countries), so this article doesn't make a great point.

[i_kender]

Thanks for these ones, will repost a couple with credit to you :)

[andrewducker]

My pleasure!

[gingicat]

On 47.2 - that was the week my bestie's boyfriend had open-heart surgery. I imagine most people don't have that level of stress going on.

Japan and lost property

[anna_wing]

This is the usual "Oh look at those amazingly exotic foreigners doing their amazingly exotic things" article (I think of them as "haggis!" articles). People being astonished that there are other ways of doing and being from the ones that they are used to.

I do admit that the adversarial relationship that US citizens and their police have with each other was a shock when I worked in the US twenty-plus years ago.

[darkoshi]

I was 47 this year, and it wasn't miserable. At least, not personally. The world sure seems to be getting more miserable... although it's always been miserable in different ways in different places, so I don't even know about that being true overall.