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optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A meme that’s been going around the last week or two. Not sure precisely what it was, but something along the lines of asking a woman whether she’d rather be locked in a room with a bear or a guy, and she chooses the bear.

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve seen would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a random man somewhere in there.

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    • blargerer@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is it. I think some ticktocker went around asking random women, and 4/5 chose the bear.

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      • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        this kind of bear, I hope?

        I think the answer should depend a lot on the species of a bear

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  • beardown@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A better question would be if she would rather be locked in a room with a bear or a black guy

    Weird how no one picks the bear in that scenario. Because sex-based prejudice is fine, but race-based prejudice is wrong

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe instead of trying really hard to act like you’re a victim of prejudice, you should take some time to think about why women largely choose the bear.

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      • beardown@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fearing a person based on immutable traits is prejudice

        Which is why everyone will claim on camera that they would prefer to encounter a black man over a bear

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• anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  https://hexbear.net/post/2454569

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  • optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This didn’t actually explain it which is why I asked on here actually.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s a tiktok meme. Someone somewhere brought up the question of “say you’re stranded in the woods. Would you rather encounter a random man or a bear?” Most men say the man, obviously. Most women have to think about it. A lot of men are offended by the idea that a woman might be roughly as afraid of random men as she is random bears, and a lot of those guys are in women’s DMs making real good cases for the bear.

      I think you need to change the question a little bit to make it equivalent for the guys. Instead of just a random man, imagine it’s a random man who’s likely to be at least 10% larger than you, has been taking testosterone supplements, and wants to have sex with you. The bear seems a little bit more reasonable at that point.

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      • optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I really appreciate it!

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      • beardown@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “say you’re stranded in the woods. Would you rather encounter a random black man or a bear?”

        This produces radically different results

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    • anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What more context do you want?

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