Here's the thing: do women choose low paying positions or are female-dominated positions paid worse because they have a majority of women there? Take for example teachers or nurses – absolutely crucial jobs, but underpaid as hell. I'm wondering whether gender might play a role in that, since statistically women are less likely than men to just go up to their boss and ask for a raise, even if they have the skills to be making a lot more. I'm thinking this mindset, along with gender sterotypes like that women choose "easy" jobs, might have deepened over time to the point female dominated professions are just systemically worse paying.

Yeah, I agree with that, not for reasons of virtue and such but rather because if you're not selective about your partners, you may find yourself in some shitty situations, and also because of diminishing returns, you may find that sex isn't even fun anymore if you do it everyday (that's why I think some people find themselves stuck in hookup culture, they think more sex with strangers will solve the problem but the opposite is true). There are arguments for being more reserved about sex just like there are arguments for being reserved about eating or drinking, though personally I'd rather focus on the practical ones rather than "virtue", because of how abstract a concept it is. That's why I said in my first reply that there is a middle ground, you can sleep with your boyfriend/girlfriend and still be "virtuous" about it.

It even says his name in katakana right next to him lol

Maybe, but that's how it works in reality. Even if your intentions are good and you want to prevent people from "sinning", telling them they can't have sex before marriage and refusing to talk about methods of birth control does way more harm than good. Why do you think the Bible belt has the highest number of teen pregnancies?

That's a good question. There are people who would consider kissing before marriage too impure, or even hugging. Y'know, the type of people who would use the chewed gum analogy and mean it.
I don't disagree that sex, at least the way I see it, is a private thing, and a sort of bonding ritual I guess. Personally I'm not the type to sleep around either. However, a) you can have a beautiful bonding experience with a boyfriend/girlfriend you're not married to, premarital sex doesn't make you a chewed gum, and b) me feeling the way I do shouldn't dictate what other people do. Maybe for some people there's a disconnect between sex and love because of traumatic experiences. Maybe they have attachment issues but a high libido. I can't judge their situation and honestly forcing people like that into marriage would be even worse. What we have now is better than marrying someone you know for half a year because you wanna bone without breaking the purity promise and then regretting it forever.

Same, and I never really played sports games so I don't even know this was a thing

Ha, thank you! I was wondering if anyone would get it

1) What is the argument?
2) Is there not a middle ground between total purity and "treating sex as a leisure activity"? Because as far as I know people who argue against the former rarely argue for the latter.

Tbh wine honey sounds good
And I don't even like alcohol

Sounds like a fun experience

The post says "her" and she presents rather feminine. I don't know who that is though so I have no other indicators as to what pronouns this person prefers, so I'm just going off what the post says.

Yeah but it implies that non-white people don't give a toss about cashiers.
But you're right, racism is racism no matter who it's directed at.

I agree, I think the way things are now, it's considered the responsibility of the consumer to buy things that have recyclable packaging, are made ethically, their production isn't harmful to the environment etc. And I try to do all that as much as I can, but this problem wouldn't be here in the first place if there were regulations on the companies

Wow, I didn't know that. I mean, the saying "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" always made no sense to me, but I didn't know that it was actually was the point and people have been using it wrong for so long.