Men on Reddit are still salty days later about women choosing to be with a bear rather than a random man in the forest. Even to the point of mansplaining their position and invalidating women’s lived experiences.
All men have a race and a national origin. When we dehumanize men and say that a vicious animal is safer than them, we are normalizing dehumanization and violence. Which, in the United States, will eventually lead to violence against men who are disproportionately black, brown, Muslim, and foreign born.
Which is partially why black men are murdered at such high rates - they aren’t seen as “people”, they’re seen as superpredators. And is also why it is easy to turn away refugees at the border - because they’re all soldiers in a migrant caravan coming to kill us. And is why Israel can claim they killed a dangerous Hamas terrorist when, in reality, all they did was murder a 12 year old boy.
When men are seen as inherently harmful and women are seen as inherently harmless, dehumanization and prejudicial violence occurs. This meme was astroturfed by right wing organizations to help accomplish that goal. We should reject it.
Totally, the whole thing is inflammatory hyperbole.
I get the point that while not all men™, enough men exhibit predatory behaviour to the extent that a decently large percentage of women fear the average man more than the average bear.
But this is just deliberately sowing division, and more shows how little both sides know about both bear behaviour and crime statistics
enough men exhibit predatory behaviour to the extent that a decently large percentage of women fear the average man more than the average bear.
Women should fear the average man far more than the average bear because they will almost certainly never encounter the average bear, but will encounter thousands of men.
That said, the entire argument belies a deep misunderstanding of statistics. Many women, perhaps most women, have experienced trauma at the hands of men. Many men, perhaps most men, have not been perpetrators of that trauma. There is not a 1-1 relationship between victimized women and guilty men - there is a minority of men who negatively affect many women.
The entire thing has become flamebait and it is impossible to have an actual discussion about it. The point is to start a conversation about how women feel unsafe in society - not to talk about bear attacks and incels.
Men on Reddit are still salty days later about women choosing to be with a bear rather than a random man in the forest. Even to the point of mansplaining their position and invalidating women’s lived experiences.
Unfortunately, it’s not hard to find them on lemmy too.
Edit: lmao looks like the incels and Tater tots have arrived. Hey fellas!
It’s just weird that not even 5 years after BLM that we’re back to saying that we’d prefer to be with literal animals than be around black men
The cops that murdered George Floyd probably felt the same way
Holy shit look at those mental gymnastics
All men have a race and a national origin. When we dehumanize men and say that a vicious animal is safer than them, we are normalizing dehumanization and violence. Which, in the United States, will eventually lead to violence against men who are disproportionately black, brown, Muslim, and foreign born.
Which is partially why black men are murdered at such high rates - they aren’t seen as “people”, they’re seen as superpredators. And is also why it is easy to turn away refugees at the border - because they’re all soldiers in a migrant caravan coming to kill us. And is why Israel can claim they killed a dangerous Hamas terrorist when, in reality, all they did was murder a 12 year old boy.
When men are seen as inherently harmful and women are seen as inherently harmless, dehumanization and prejudicial violence occurs. This meme was astroturfed by right wing organizations to help accomplish that goal. We should reject it.
Femcels complaining about incels. You people are the spiderman meme.
Totally, the whole thing is inflammatory hyperbole.
I get the point that while not all men™, enough men exhibit predatory behaviour to the extent that a decently large percentage of women fear the average man more than the average bear.
But this is just deliberately sowing division, and more shows how little both sides know about both bear behaviour and crime statistics
Women should fear the average man far more than the average bear because they will almost certainly never encounter the average bear, but will encounter thousands of men.
That said, the entire argument belies a deep misunderstanding of statistics. Many women, perhaps most women, have experienced trauma at the hands of men. Many men, perhaps most men, have not been perpetrators of that trauma. There is not a 1-1 relationship between victimized women and guilty men - there is a minority of men who negatively affect many women.
The entire thing has become flamebait and it is impossible to have an actual discussion about it. The point is to start a conversation about how women feel unsafe in society - not to talk about bear attacks and incels.
But I wanted to have sex with her!
I don’t think the bear can consent friend…but it’s good to have goals in life