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"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's this sexist statement still being made? Cool, cool, cool... I mean it's not actually, but here we are with this crap still being said.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (24 children)

How many female teachers have been caught fucking their barely pubescent students this year alone so far?

It isn't a men-women problem. People just suck.

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (37 children)

People's safety is more important than people's feelings.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (8 children)

My edge-case where I run into something semi-related to this issue is when I go on my daily walks and get caught walking behind women. I’m a fast walker, it pains me to have to slow down for people and I don’t like having to walk awkwardly around other people walking too slow (especially if they’re just barely slow but not too slow). I realize that the Flash is trapped in a living hell walking behind all these goddamn slow walkers.

I dislike walking behind women especially, nothing that’s their fault, they’re just living life, but because then I get extra self-conscious, like, “Oh geez, what if they think I’m following them or that I’m trying took at their butt or what if I’m making them uncomfortable.” It’s about the implication. Walking slowly isn’t an option because it extends the whole thing out and makes it worse, so then I have to re-route my whole walking routine on the off-chance my very existence might make somebody else uncomfortable.

I’ve tried saying things to them to try to put them at ease like, “I wasn’t planning on raping you,” or “Hey, it’s ok, I’m not a rapist,” but nothing seems to work, if anything, it makes them more uncomfortable. I honestly don’t know what women want from men.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago

Lol you had me for a moment and then you got to the end. Good trolling

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (17 children)

I'm a woman and the same way that women feel about men in this whole meme thing, is the exact same way I feel about women...

I don't trust women within a hairs inch of my life and I would rather be with a bear than a Woman but I bet you I'll get super downvoted for this opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nope I definitely trust men more than I trust women. I don't know what part of what I said sounds like that when I said I don't trust women, not people.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That's quite the universal statement. I think first and foremost, men need to learn that they might not be part of the problem, but that there are many very problematic ones among us.

The feeling of general suspicion is what we need to tackle. If you don't grasp the problems and their magnitude, you will naturally take offense in being suspected.

We need to take this feeling and turn it into anger towards the disgraceful people that are the reason for the suspicion.

So on the contrary, I think men's feelings actually matter a lot, if you want to reach a world free of misogyny and violence against women.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Sometimes things aren’t your fault but are your problem. And men making excuses like “just locker room talk” and not confronting other men in their lives who do or say toxic things or espouse ideas or personalities that generally make women uncomfortable are our problems, whether or not they are our fault.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

So if men are statistically safer than bears and women's safety is most important, then you agree "bear" is the incorrect choice?

I'm just trying to figure out all these incoherent memes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Do you have those stats? I would love to actually see a comparison, instead of a slap-fight

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Very few people someone gets near enough to be grabbed by want to rape them. Nearly every bear someone gets near enough to be grabbed by wants to kill them. A large number of women feel it is better to be killed by a bear than live with their irrational fear that every man they get near shall rape them. The fear not being rational is irrelevant as the fear is based upon a more than likely chance, approx. 25% is reported, that at some point the fear was justified and not irrational. However those numbers are screwy as folks that get raped are more likely to get raped again.

I'd give percentage chances of each occurring, (the National Park Service estimates the odds of being attacked by a bear are about one in 2.1 million​.), but the media seems to only report percentage of gender raped not chance of rape.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Do you think is the nature of males or is this learned behavior?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So what people are meaning to say is women's feelings are more important than men's? I think the statistics should matter xD. But I don't think bears attack people as often as people are trying to make out.

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