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You're just discarding every opinion as "toxic masculinity" which is actually worse than engaging in logical discourse.

I'll do everything in my power to empower women and make them feel safe. This thought experiment has unfortunately been detrimental and used to attack men.

"It's not you" - yes, and nothing I said made it about me at all. See how fast you went on the offense on a completely neutral comment? You should listen to your own advice and listen the points being made equally as much as you're lobbying others to do.

i am not like that

Congrats, you pass the bare minimum for human decency, dudes. Accept that part and you won't spend time having to 'defend' yourself.

I'm not like that, so I don't need to worry about it, type of thinking

I read some of these, more to get insight into how other people think, but often I come to the conclusion that there is very little I can do to help and that people who behave that way aren't people I want to help. My ego is just fine, thanks, but blind hostility isn't something I welcome into my life.

It's just a stupid point. No human being is more dangerous than a bear, and if your point relies on assuming people should go with hyperbole over taking it literally, it's just badly constructed. Use another simile that actually stands up to being taken literally. Bears can and will violently maul you to death in a horrifying and nightmarish death that goes on for a lot longer than you think. A bear is more dangerous than even an armed man. That's why the best defense against men is a gun to kill him, but the best defense against a bear is mace that will distract and confuse it with pain to make it lose interest in you.