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

  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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      • rab@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I missed your edit

        Ok so they are scared of men so would rather be eaten by a bear. I don’t see that as somber I see that as a lack of any common sense and it also makes me feel sad that we are this disconnected from nature

        Do these folks know what happens when you see a bear? The fight or flight response your body has is ridiculous. Because evolution has it baked into our brains that bear = danger. I mean the last time I was charged by a bear, the guy I was with actually pissed himself lol

        NONE of these women, if actually found in this supposed hypothetical situation, are going to choose bear

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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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