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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gods, it’s like some people never passed 10th grade English. Sometimes the important part of the text isn’t the literal meaning. There’s like metaphor and hyperbole and shit.

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  • sus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When you meet a bear in the woods, there is a 0% chance they will notice the parallel to the popular meme and proceed to mansplain about how bears are more dangerous.

    This is and has always been the one and only reason women choose the bear. But one question yet eludes us: how did the cycle start?

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If youre so suicidal youd rather to be eaten alive than a chance to be condescended to, theres a problem.

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      • sus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        …are you a goldfish

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      • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If the biggest threat you pose to women is possible condescension, and you don’t understand why this is a meme, then maybe you’re one of the good guys.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dude was going around asking if theyd rather meet a man or a bear in the woods. There isnt much hidden meaning behind it, its not a 4deep2me tumblr post

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    • Leg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Here’s the thing. You’re very right, it’s not deep at all. Metaphors, similies, analogies, hyperboles, implications, etc. are all very normal parts of human speech, and this meme is pretty surface level in its requirement to use these things.

      However, something has dawned on me, and I feel it necessary to ask you: are you perhaps on the spectrum? We sometimes have difficulties not taking everything literally, and this causes a communication gap. If this is the case, I will be completely and totally clear for you.

      We are not literally talking about a literal bear vs a literal man. This is in fact a real metaphor for “danger vs danger”. The literal interpretation is “men can be scary to many women”. Going further, respond to this point and don’t fixate on the hypothetical bear.

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Round 12 people, all aboard.

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• vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends on where you live… Northeast us most likely a black bear, as long as its not a mother protecting its cubs make some noise and it will leave you alone. If your in the artic, how the hell are you in woods but ignoring that’s and it’s likely a polar bear and you are dead.

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