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

• totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My point is that global warming is going to drive them down south, and I don’t think that any of us are prepared for this.

    I for one am trying to do my part by correcting one thought experiment at a time!

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    • timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You didn’t correct it though. You added a random element to an existing thought experiment based on the way the world is as we currently know it. That’s like “correcting” the trolley problem by saying “but what if aliens appeared with a second switch that saved everyone!?”

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