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

• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  meant to deliberately portray all men as dangerous

  If this were true, wouldn’t it be dead simple for women to just pick the man? It’s interesting that a lot don’t, right?

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  • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Swap the word “man” for another group of people based on generic traits and continue your sweeping generalizations.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, race! I love race.

      Do you think it would be wrong for a black person to be a little bit nervous about wandering through some small, predominantly white town in middle America? 'Cause I’m gonna be real, I think that’s probably a valid fear.

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      • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s an excellent analogy. Zooming out from that scenario, should we welcome the notion of being afraid of being afraid of somebody based on their skin color, because there’s an inherent prejudice of them being dangerous? If so, should we be encouraging each other to vocalize these kinds of prejudices? And by extension, is it acceptable to draw sweeping conclusions about a group of people based on their generic traits?

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because most people have a Disneyfied idea of what animals do. Most people think a bear in the woods wears a red t-shirt and carries around a honeypot.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So, how does choosing a bear with a honeypot make men look bad?

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Uh, it doesn’t? It makes the person choosing the bear look like someone whose life consists of entertainment.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not meant to be a realistic scenario. It’s satire.

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    • Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, if it’s a black bear, shouting and waving your arms will normally chase it off.

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most species is bear don’t hunt people. You see one, you back away slowly, and you’re good. If there’s food in your, you drop it. They’d rather eat your granola bar than you.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you actually listened to the reasoning that women gave (crazy, right?), they were very clear that with a bear, you know where you stand, but with men, you can’t tell right away whether they’re a danger or pretending to be nice only to be harmful later on.

  Any men who get offended by this fact is part of the problem.

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