Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 months agoThink the spirit of my comments may not be making it through - I’m not seriously making a statistical argument, was just responding to the other commenter saying let’s get pedantic.
Ultimately, women feel how they feel, and if they say they’d rather be stuck in the woods with a bear than a man, there’s no sense in arguing with them.
What would success there look like, you convince a woman “no, you’re not concerned about the intentions of strange men in the woods”?
If a woman says “I’d rather be stuck in the woods with a bear” we should receive that as information. That’s telling us that many women have serious concerns about their safety with men. And instead of telling them “no you’re wrong for feeling how you feel” a better response could be “sorry you’ve had bad experiences” or even just saying nothing.
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s saying that and it’s saying they have no concept of the dangers of wildlife. But everyone takes addressing the latter as ignoring the former, when they’re two separate conversations only combined by the dumb analogy.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you think any woman who says this would intentionally go up to a bear in the woods? There’s not a need for education about the dangers of wildlife. That’s not the conversation being had, so people who try to talk to a woman about that in this particular context (online meme) are missing the point.