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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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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, among racists yeah. This isn’t really analogous to race, though. Rape culture is a thing.

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      • beardown@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No woman on camera would claim that she is more afraid of a black man than a bear

        She would claim that a (racially ambiguous) man is more dangerous than a bear. Making that man black prevents her from articulating her fear

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• anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What more context do you want?

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