StrikerMean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch.
NeatoThe number of people either too dense or too willfully misogynistic to understand what this is about is depressing.
If you’re arguing bear statistics or saying “not all men” or decrying misandry, then you’ve totally missed the point. If you are doing it intentionally, you’re the type of men women would choose the bear over.
The fact that anyone would choose a dangerous animal over a random man is an indictment against the culture surrounding male privilege and should spark introspection and change. Arguments against this is just ignoring women and solidifies the decision that the bear is better.
ThrowawayOnLemmyThis whole thing is just another way of putting men against women.
Men having to listen to women and be confronted with reality and the harms their gender and society are actively causing is NOT pitting people against each other. Women don’t want to fight and ostracize men. They want to be safe FROM men.
If you see this discussion and feel defensive, that’s your brain trying to tell you something’s wrong and you should probably analyze why you feel like you are being attacked.
Wanna be safe from men? Do it the same way men do. Be able to handle yourself when you need to and don’t worry about it the rest of the time. Women having to listen to men and be confronted with reality is not mansplaining.
medgremlinHow does “being able to handle yourself” apply when someone else has removed your ability to handle yourself with drugs or alcohol? How does it apply when your choices are “go along with it and try to escape later” or “fight back and probably lose because you have less muscle mass and are physically smaller than them”?
How does your argument apply when you are a teenage girl in high school being harassed by adult men? Reality is a very different place when the world perceives you as a woman (or girl), and your prescriptivist approach entirely fails to account for the fact that your perspective has a lot of blind spots in it.
Try defending yourself from all of society when a girl lies about you for rejecting her.
Are you not responsible for your own drinking? I avoid the hazard of bars by not going to them. I’m also pretty good about not dating total strangers.
Carry a gun. Obviously this doesn’t apply in the teenage girl scenario. I wanna say that you gotta protect your kids, but society’s structure straight up doesn’t let that be practical. Security is hard and young girls are desirable. Judging people’s character is also hard. Dangerous machiavellians can pretty well pretend they’re totally chill. IMO, the best security is surveillance, identification, and appropriate punishment which seems unavoidable. I personally fear the future of easy to fake evidence though. It’s not something that’ll hit me directly, but someone that the rich will employ against each other eventually resulting in all of leadership positions being occupied by the worst kinds of people.
Ever wonder how election by lottery might go? I seriously believe that any random person is more likely to make good legislation than the people who seek it out and fund their way in. I’m getting on a tangent now, so I’ll stop myself here.