The new women in mens fields trend is the same thing. Its there to agravate people by doing the thing people claim to hate just to a different group. Equality does not mean every one gets a turn at being the opresser and I can see why young people start to consider themself anti feminists if these two trends are the most interaction you've ever done with feminism. Which is likely since I don't really see any other big social media movements for it.

Maybe its not my place to critisize the way they choose to operate but all im saying is if you told me both of those trends were Russian plots to stoke anger at feminists I'd believe you easily.

I assume that part of the intent with these type of scenarios is to draw attention to toxic masculinity by baiting out toxic responses, which is fine and obviously it's effective if that is the intent. However, any attempt to respectfully disagree with the premise was also treated as toxicity and that just made me not want to engage with feminists or the discourse at all, which seems counter-productive.

All good points I hadn’t considered! However, some people did try to turn it into a math problem which I had to object to at that point, since they were doing it wrong.

no, it was a question to illustrate how women feel about safety around men. the rage came from male fragility. the refusal to understand a simple premise doesn't make the "game" stupid.

But would you rather be alone in the woods with a statistician or a bear?

I'm not here to argue about the bear metaphor, but this claim seems spurious at best. Even if there's only 1 fatal bear encounter per 10 years, the number of bear encounters is so low that I don't think this statistic can possibly be true. Do you have anything to back up your claim, or is this just a gut feeling sort of thing?

Wait why are we killing bears?

Do they? That’s hard to believe but if they did the stats right then feel free to share. How do you even measure the number of encounters?

Is it? Men as a class are privileged. I’m fine with punching up.

Note this does not apply to individuals and certain subsets of men who may be relatively less privileged (gay men, black men, etc.)

Why do you think it’s fucked up? What’s the harm?

Please quit with this tax write off misinformation.

They cut their losses. We don't know the details why, but for some reason they decided it would cost too much in money or reputation to continue with marketing and release.

Not everything is a billionaire conspiracy. Sometimes they just realise they made a film too shit to release, or some person in a suit just wanted to spite someone.

It came up this time. It's a good post and I'm glad I waited.