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I’m confused, can you provide some context?

I know about the bear vs man thing that went viral for awhile- “Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man?”, but I haven’t ever seen it in a Lemmy vs Reddit context.

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EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Unfortunately, I don’t even know what the argument is, so I’d need you to provide context.

I’m just trying to understand how irrational or aggressive Lemmy is towards women.

Thank you for describing the bear vs man thing to me. So it was basically a question posted on social media, and then the reactions to the question (and maybe others’ comments) was divisive?

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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’m just trying to understand how irrational or aggressive Lemmy is towards women.
  
  While I also don’t know:
  
  Lemmy tends to be geeky. While I don’t know the stats, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s very male dominated
  
  different Lemmy servers have different social tendencies. If there are some worth not federating because of toxicity, it’s likely some of that toxicity makes women uncomfortable
  
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  - EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Thank you for this.
    
    For some reason, I thought Lemmy had more women specifically because of how Reddit treats women. 😅
    
    Still, it’s not like people are incapable of understanding others who are different from them. I’m hopeful the men here will listen to reason.
    
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- SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Since I have no clue what argument you’re talking about I definitely can’t provide context.
  
  I think maybe we’re all confused lmao.
  
  But yeah, you summed up the original context pretty well. A lot of people, primarily women, basically pointed and said “see how much women don’t trust the average man.” A lot of men pointed at it and said, “see how much women hate men.” And it was a whole gender argument for awhile. I just sort of thought it was all around sad and depressing. I got very tired of hearing about the whole thing personally.
  
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  - EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    LOL I hear you on that. 😭
    
    Ah, I see. 😅 Thank you for explaining it. 😂
    
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