I’m in the bear group because I’m not scared of being in the woods with a bear. I mean that is literally going for a walk/run in the woods alone…
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Contramuffin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The question is designed to be as divisive as possible. It categorizes large swathes of people into just 2 groups - man or bear. The man group contains mansplainers, but it also contains regular people who simply view humanity as naturally altruistic. The bear group contains people with concerns about men overpowering women, but also contains people who earnestly believe that most if not all men will try to do it if given the chance.
The problem is that people either are unable to or unwilling to acknowledge that these categories are not monolithic. And in claiming that all people in the man group are incels, you are inadvertently insulting everyone in that group. Likewise, in claiming that all people in the bear group are misandrists, you are inadvertently dismissing everyone in that group.
It is not productive to make claims about people based only on their answer to the question. In fact, it appears to be entirely the intention of the question to divide even rational people by exploiting the general human inability to see subgroups within larger categories
totally_notAcat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, that’s where bears are supposed to be! Where else do you expect them to shit?
Mango@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What if you’re just a furry?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No. Women are very aware that it’s not all men. But the bad ones don’t come with a bell. It’s not about you personally.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I thought it was from the woman’s perspective. She doesn’t know if the man is an incel or a regular, well behaved person.
The point is: do you roll the dice on the man, who could be anything, or the bear, who is a bear.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The known potential bad is better than the unknown potential bad. At least a bear won’t rape you before/while killing you.
IMO, the answer given exposes more about the life experiences of the women answerers, and the result seems to be that their experiences have been bad.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My only issue with that mentality is it completely ignores reality. I understand that most women have had a bad experience with a guy here or there. What they don’t seem to understand is that the types of guys that are doing these things are a small percentage of the population.
The guys that are pulling this crap aren’t even gonna get offended by this whole “man or bear” thing in the first place. At the end of the day it just makes the rest of us feel even more dejected and apathetic about it all. Why should I champion for any woman when I’m going to be seen as a predator regardless?
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It may ignore your reality, but the thing about experience is that it defines our realities, and the experiences of the women who responded make up reality as they see it. If they’ve had more negative experiences than positive ones, their reality is that the bear is a better option.
Based on so, so much of what I’ve heard/learned from my wife, female friends, co-workers, daughters, stories from numerous personalities from tv, film, and radio, MAGA, Andrew Fucking Tate, etc., I can’t say that I disagree with the choice.
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The fact that treating someone as a person hinges on what you get out if it is a huge problem.
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
The bear will eat you alive.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And that’s worse than being raped and beaten to death?