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Comment · 7 years ago
Numbers please? How common is it (percentage of women)?
Comment · 7 years ago
What does "society values" mean, though? These women in their 70ies supposedly don't care about being attractive. So the only thing that matters is could they get decent jobs if they were unattractive. They supposedly don't care about societies evaluation of their attractiveness anyway.

And we were talking about "pressure to be attractive". What form does that take. What happens to you if you are unattractive?

Comment · 7 years ago
Citation needed. I know many not so pretty women in successful careers.
Comment · 7 years ago
Maybe they have just become a little senile, so they revel in caterpillar watching.
Comment · 7 years ago
"Most of us don’t miss the male gaze. It came with catcalls, harassment and unwanted attention. Instead, we feel free from the tyranny of worrying about our looks. For the first time since we were 10, we can feel relaxed about our appearance."

I call bullshit. People spend Billions to become more attractive, and rarely anything to become less attractive.

If these women would have suffered so much from the "male gaze", they could have taken steps to look as unattractive as possible way earlier than in their 70ies.

Comment · 7 years ago
Not sure if the complaint here is simply from developers of badly designed apps?

I didn't do much Android development, but last year I had to develop a small app doing a continuous background task.

Yes, it is hard to do that in Android (it seems). But you are supposed to use all sorts of other mechanisms that Android provides. Like for an alarm clock, I guess you tell some system service to play the sound and then go back to sleep. The sound keeps playing and your app sleeps (I guess - don't know this particular case).

Some things seemed really hard to do, but it is by design, and users really need to be protected from vampiric apps.

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