Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses

• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you are a woman alone in the woods, would you rather come across an unknown man, or a bear? It’s a thought experiment. As a human woman, which represents a greater immanent threat?

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The question always struck me as dumb. Because it doesn’t make any attempt to clarify what geographic region this question takes place.

    I don’t care what you’re afraid of a man doing, a polar bear is ALWAYS the worse choice.

    But not all bears are as aggressive as polar bears. Some bears will run away from you if you chase them. Some bears will end you if you chase them.

    Of coarse you can’t determine how dangerous a man is based on region. But you can likely determine which regions have dangerous bears.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are there non human women?

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      See Pam Bondi.

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  • totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a stupid thought experiment, though, because I think that woman who chose the bear have not seriously considered the possibility that it might be a polar bear!

    (Like, if it’s a regular bear then you are probably fine, but you have to think about the worst case scenario here!)

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    • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wow are you entirely missing the point.

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      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah bro. It’s obviously a grizzly because polar bears are going extinct soon.

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      • totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        All I am saying is that if polar bears were wandering around the forests then people might have responded differently.

        But having said that, arguably the thought experiment is not meant to be taken too literally in the first place. It is really more like meme mean to be shared and responded to than a serious scientific assessment of the actual risk involved in running across a man versus a bear, especially since the risk posed by the bear depends on the region and what species live there.

        But of course, all of this is besides the point, because what is important about the thought experiment is not that so many women choose the bear by that it expresses a collective sentiment of general severe distrust towards men, which came about because enough men have regularly abused their position of strength and power—which, unlike assessments of the relative risk of men versus bears, is definitely backed up by statistics—to impose themselves physically on women, and this is a big societal problem regardless of whether it actually literally makes more sense to prefer running into a bear over a man in the woods.

        And just to be clear, I am not criticizing the thought experiment so much as that I love the image of polar bears wandering around in the woods.

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    • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Polar bears do not live in the woods

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      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well then where the fuck do they shit?!?

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      • totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I want to believe!

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