Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard?

jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was one twitter post on Lemmy’s front page yesterday and that’s big enough of a sample size for me.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A very hyperbolic feminist journalist and, look, I get that most men are unaware of how anxious we can inadvertently make women feel but hyperbole doesn’t help foster a productive conversation.

  Here’s one thread on it: lemmy.world/post/14872533

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you read the article? It doesn’t seem hyperbolic. Just an explanation with humor.

    This should be a very easy question! I want to say the man, I really do, but I can’t shake the idea that I would be safer with the bear. I am not sure if it is men or bears that are being most maligned in all of this, but there is no denying that is this a very revealing question.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A bear will act like a bear. Its predictable and it’s going to avoid you if it can.

      Its a wild animal. A bear is no more predictable than a human.

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then there is the fact that if I was attacked by a bear, no one would tell me I was making it up. I wouldn’t be asked what I was wearing, if I was drunk, or what I had done to provoke the bear

      They are wrong about the latter part. Whenever there’s a bear attack, I almost always hear someone asking “What the hell did that idiot do to piss off the bear?”.

      • What you’re wearing depends on the scent it’s carrying. If your clothes smell like food, don’t go wandering around bear-infested woods.
      • Drunk people fooling around with bears is far too common to be ignored as a question.
      • Only people who’ve observed bears for a long period of time can accurately say what provokes a bear to attack and the ones I’ve asked have said that sometimes you’re just shit out of luck.

      A bear encounter isn’t as clear cut as the text you’re quoting would like. Because they do avoid people normally, so meeting one means something is definitely wrong. Good luck figuring out what though.

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    • rab@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The beauty of the question lies in its vagueness because that forces you to work with averages. On average, is a woman safer in the woods with a man or a bear?

      Average woman crosses paths with hundreds of thousands of men in their life

      Average woman likely never sees a bear in their life even once

      Hmm I wonder why you can find more examples of male violence??

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      • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe you missed my edit where I included the ending. You definitely missed the main point of the article

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope I hadn’t, that’s actually pretty nuanced and well considered… I’ve only seen the article linked by title and the title definitely feels like flame bait

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• rab@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At my university there are multi gender washrooms all over campus. They have been modified so that there is a wall around the unirals to obstruct view but otherwise same

  I’m not against this in the slightest but the same blue-haired people are all over social media right now claiming they would rather be in the woods with a random bear than a random man

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you ever want to type “blue-haired people” and aren’t literally talking about people with blue hair please take a moment and realize you’re probably better off not typing anything at all.

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    • rab@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you really denying that blue hair hasn’t become symbolism of a certain identity movement

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      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, I’m not denying that. There has been a strong push to form that association… but it’s a childish, surface level ad-hominem attack that we shouldn’t perpetuate.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Funny, visiting someone else’s university is where I saw that. It was a highly regarded liberal arts college in New England. Still, I’d call that super rare.

    The bear thing seems a bit exaggerated. Not sure what hair color has to do with this

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    • rab@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not sure what hair color has to do with this

      I’m saying that the ultra left people you usually see with dyed hair are the people who advocate for multi gender washrooms, are the same people so loud on social media right now about how dangerous men are

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Step outside of your house and take a walk around the block and enjoy the sunshine.

        It sounds like right wing media has got you all worked up about nothing.

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