With the Depp vs. Heard defamation process and its revelations: Do you think this could lead to and help starting another kind-of-MeToo discussion but this time in the sense of violence against men by women? (old.reddit.com)
Tennessee passed a law where if a drunk driver kills a parent they then have to pay child support. Why isn't there a law for sober crashes that resulted in a fatality too? (old.reddit.com)
Why is Netflix all of a sudden caring about password sharing? I thought they were the first streaming services to actually PROMOTE password sharing with the creation of user profiles. (old.reddit.com)
Why did Athens decline so substantially as one of the major urban and political centres of Greece and fall into obscurity up until the 19th century? (old.reddit.com)
Europe's ancient, peaceful, matrilinear and matrifocal culture was wiped out by patriarchal invaders dubbed the Kurgan, according to Archaeologist Marija Gimbutaspeaceful. Is her Kurgan Hypothesis likely? Is it taken seriously today? Do we really know that preinvasion life was women-focused? (old.reddit.com)
Why there was no strong anti-Italian sentiment in Europe after World War II? There were powerful anti-German sentiments, but there was nothing like that with the Italians. (old.reddit.com)
How did knights of medieval european religious orders like templars, hospitallers or teutonic order obtain their armour? was it bought individualy by the members with their personal money like others or was it obtained and given out according to their respective ranks (old.reddit.com)
How come most people here on reddit view 18 as the bare minimum age of consent, but where I live it's 16, and I've literally never heard anyone talk about it being too low? (old.reddit.com)
(Directed to the women of Reddit) It looks like menstrual leave might become the norm in workplaces. This is great, but will women not feel uncomfortable having everyone in the workplace knowing that they are menstruating? Especially the men? (old.reddit.com)
What does it mean when scholars (not necessarily historians, but this was prompted by a historical work) refer to rape as a "weapon of war"? Is this somehow separate from other rape which takes place during war and conflict? (old.reddit.com)
If you are in a serious relationship with someone who was previously divorced, is it ever reasonable to ask them what led to the divorce and if they share any of the responsibility for it at all? (old.reddit.com)
Are “cargo cults” a genuine spiritual movement? To what extent - if any - is the discourse surrounding cargo cults a reflection of patronizing attitudes towards indigenous peoples? (old.reddit.com)
straight people of reddit, are you repulsed by the idea of having sex with someone of the same gender? or does it just not arouse you? (old.reddit.com)
cut, or uncut? My wife thinks our sons will have trouble getting girls to like them because I refused to get them circumcised. Is this really a thing? (old.reddit.com)
Evidence shows that Hinduism is over 4000 years old, making it the oldest major religion still practised today. Why is the oldest Hindu temple only around 1400 years old? (old.reddit.com)
Can you gain knowledge without interaction with the environment. If you were locked in a room for 30 days with nothing but your own thoughts could you come out knowing something you did not know before just by thinking (old.reddit.com)
One of the primary reasons many native groups in the Americas were largely wiped out were diseases to which they had no natural defences against. However I was wondering if the contrary ever happened, like were there diseases found in the new world that were new to settlers? (old.reddit.com)
If Dwight Eisenhower felt the military-industrial complex was a cause for concern, why would he have been reduced to offering a single warning at the very end of his public life? (old.reddit.com)
Given the hatred and vitriol seen in the Yugoslav wars and the modern day within the Balkans, how was Yugoslavia able to stay together for so long? (old.reddit.com)
Is it a coincidence that both classic cartoon studios had a popular short-tempered duck character (Donald from Disney, Daffy from Warner Brothers)? Was one of them a knockoff of the other? (old.reddit.com)
My gf told me about her last relationships and how she cheated on every single she dated. The stories are disturbing and make me wanna vomit. And she doesn’t feel bad. I wanna trust her but dk if I can. Advice? (old.reddit.com)
If it’s a woman’s choice to have a baby or abort and this is generally supported, then why can’t the father choose to leave without being vilified? (old.reddit.com)
Wikipedia states, "The human nose is extremely sensitive to geosimin [the compound that we associate with the smell of rain], and is able to detect it at concentrations as low as 400 parts per trillion." How does that compare to other scents? (old.reddit.com)
Why do most people advocate for canceling student debt instead of advocating for colleges to not charge an outrageous price for their services? (old.reddit.com)
What are you supposed to do when your roommate brings two girls home. One of which he's sleeping with the other is just sitting here awkwardly? (old.reddit.com)
I got denied a job for “being too far” then I created a fake identical application changed my name and race to white and got a job offer on the spot. Should I look into legal help for hiring discrimination? (old.reddit.com)
I’ll be nice. But why in gods holy name do (some) people older than 45 not know how to work technology? I mean children are figuring it out. (old.reddit.com)
when astronauts use the space station's stationary bicycle, does the rotation of the mass wheel start to rotate the I.S.S. and how do they compensate for that? (old.reddit.com)
If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow this person to be your friend? (old.reddit.com)
After a breakup from a toxic relationship, does learning Python from scratch count as focusing on yourself? Even if it’s not just going to the gym (old.reddit.com)
What was life like for Chinese princesses that ended up in arranged marriages to steppe warlords? Moving from palace life to a yurt, even a nice one, seems like an adjustment. Do we have any records stating what the women themselves thought about it? (old.reddit.com)
Historians of r/AskHistorians: Which podcast, in your opinion, does a great job of historical storytelling while balancing historical accuracy and entertainment? (old.reddit.com)
In the Asterix books, it is frequently stated that the only thing the Gaulish chiefs feared was the sky falling on their heads. Does this perception have any basis in reality? Where did it come from? (old.reddit.com)
My cousin said a guy was “soft” because he was respectful and a gentleman, am I overthinking that this is a messed up way of judging anyone? (old.reddit.com)
is it okay to give my dad a fake address and tell him I moved? I'm trans and he doesn't know it yet, and he thinks trans people are a leftist plot and communist. (old.reddit.com)
Is there a “Muslim Nietzsche”? That is, a philosopher who grew up in a Muslim society and criticized Muslim values like Nietzsche criticized Christian values? (old.reddit.com)
why are there never questions about how should women approach men without being seen as annoying or weird ? why are all relationship advice, social skills and other subs filled with anxious or creepy guys not knowing how to talk and then "having success" for talking to "a hot girl?" (old.reddit.com)
Is it weird that the American flag is losing all appeal to me? When I was younger it was a flag it was a symbol of my home. Now whenever I see an American flag I know I don't want to be around those people. I just associate the American flag with bigotry and anti-intellectualism (old.reddit.com)
Why is it so hard for normal people to run for Congress? Isn't the point of a Representative to be representative of the normal populous? (old.reddit.com)
Do those who are overweight have a better chance of surviving a knife wound than those who are fit and lean?I'm debating whether or not I should continue my diet. (old.reddit.com)
What album from 20+ years ago should everyone sit down, close their eyes, and listen to start to finish at least once in their lifetime, regardless of their normal music tastes? (old.reddit.com)
My girlfriend and I get into the stupidest fucking arguments - If you immobilize a snake's rattler in resin, would it still rattle when you shake it? (old.reddit.com)
Is it weird to not want to go to a nursing home when I reach old age? Like I don’t want somebody wiping my ass, feeding me, etc. I’m about to be a nurse and I’ve seen how nursing homes handled them… I’d rather go out in the forest and die naturally after taking a huge dose of acid or something (old.reddit.com)
An author claims there was a 300 year old stew in Normandy and a stew in France that lasted from 1400 to WW2. Is there any truth to these claims? (old.reddit.com)
If Albert Einstein were alive today and had access to modern super computers, would he be able to produce new science that is significantly more advanced than what he came up with? (old.reddit.com)
The Japanese ate meat with gusto until 675 A.D., when the emperor banned the consumption of most meat, then all meat. It stayed banned for 12 centuries. Did meat consumption really disappear from Japan? (old.reddit.com)
The Incan Empire was the most successful centrally planned economy in history. My understanding of economics led me to believe that Centrally Planned Economies are fundamentally untenable. So why was the Incan economy so successful? Why did the Incans succeed where the Soviets failed? (old.reddit.com)
How would you feel if you were either dating someone or had a casual relationship with them & while chatting, they used the term "sexual market value" unironically? (old.reddit.com)