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"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Indeed. It strikes me as pointlessly gendered. All people, safety is more important than feelings.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The whole thing was meant to be rage bait.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

or it's purposefully gendered in response to the man vs bear thing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Even then it's contradictory. Men wouldn't be upset about being chosen over a bear and women wouldn't be safe if the bear was chosen, so in that specific context it's nonsensical.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most bears don't seek out and attack women, but many men do. One of those happens far more often than the other, and you're either uninformed or willfully ignorant about that fact.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Yet another exhibit of people not knowing anything about bears. If bears and women had anywhere near the same amount of interactions as men and women, maulings would be up by a percentage with an alarming number of zeroes. This is like the literal equivalent to the Face Eating Leopard Party supporters being surprised that the Leopards are eating their faces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

What wat? What do you want to know?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Which is also rage bait

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah this meme as well as the original bear one were meant to be divisive and make people angry. That's the point of these kinds of memes, they're not really meant to be intelligent, they're meant to stir up drama and make people fight.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

~~you know what else is pointlessly gendered? the patriarchy~~

feminist messaging has to be gendered because the patriarchy is a gender issue.

that said, feminism is for everybody. liberating women from oppressive structures by nature does the same for men.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If it’s not gendered and is for everybody, that isn’t that just the original statement? That safety is for everybody? That seems rather circular.

But I think I get what you’re saying. We focus on lifting up women, and everyone benefits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah i see how my comment was a little confusing let me try to edit :p thanks for the good faith question tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hey no worries. More people should act in good faith in my opinion. We don’t even have to agree with everyone but we should have mutual respect for each other and want a better world.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If this weren't gendered I'm not sure I would connect that this was posted as result of people's reaction to the bears vs men thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Ah, good point! None of us would be here in that case.