For the record I support multi gender spaces but I am apparently in the minority of people who thinks bears are scary
Who specifically said “men are more dangerous than bears” and in what context was that said?
So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard?
Submitted 6 months ago by rab@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There was one twitter post on Lemmy’s front page yesterday and that’s big enough of a sample size for me.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A very hyperbolic feminist journalist and, look, I get that most men are unaware of how anxious we can inadvertently make women feel but hyperbole doesn’t help foster a productive conversation.
Here’s one thread on it: lemmy.world/post/14872533
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Did you read the article? It doesn’t seem hyperbolic. Just an explanation with humor.
This should be a very easy question! I want to say the man, I really do, but I can’t shake the idea that I would be safer with the bear. I am not sure if it is men or bears that are being most maligned in all of this, but there is no denying that is this a very revealing question.
rab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
At my university there are multi gender washrooms all over campus. They have been modified so that there is a wall around the unirals to obstruct view but otherwise same
I’m not against this in the slightest but the same blue-haired people are all over social media right now claiming they would rather be in the woods with a random bear than a random man
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If you ever want to type “blue-haired people” and aren’t literally talking about people with blue hair please take a moment and realize you’re probably better off not typing anything at all.
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Funny, visiting someone else’s university is where I saw that. It was a highly regarded liberal arts college in New England. Still, I’d call that super rare.
The bear thing seems a bit exaggerated. Not sure what hair color has to do with this
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Humans irregardless of gender are more dangerous than bears because humans can use weapons and are much more intelligent. They also kill without provocation or reason.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Humans have a higher danger ceiling - I agree. We’re capable of extreme violence that non-humans can never accomplish… but the vast majority of humans are socially adept and won’t instigate needless violence. I think your argument is the absolute worst defense of this article… would you rather be in a cramped coffee shop with twenty humans or twenty bears? If you’d genuinely prefer the bears I simply don’t comprehend your world view.
rab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I bet the answers would be different if the question was ‘black man’ instead of ‘man’ haha
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m struggling to find a non-racist meaning to this.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
True, but that’s a completely different message than what OP shared.
athos77@kbin.social 6 months ago
Troll OP is trollish, news at eleven. Bye, Felicia!
rab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I’ll still help you out if you cross me in the woods, I forgive you
Today@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A bear can kill you, but they can’t buy guns, so they probably can’t kill more than one or two of you at a time.
Nemo@midwest.social 6 months ago
What about my right to arm bears???
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The National Bear Association?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If we are considering death by bear or death by gun, I think most people would probably choose death by gun. Ever seen what a bear does?
Devi@kbin.social 6 months ago
Generally leave you alone if you leave them alone?
Nemo@midwest.social 6 months ago
A lone human in an isolated situation where you don’t expect them and can’t seek help is scarier than a lone bear in a situation where you can reasonably expect them and hopefully prepared with that in mind.
There’s a reason pepper spray is stronger than bear spray.
rab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Um bear spray is way stronger than pepper spray that’s why they make you sign a waver saying you won’t use it on people (in canada at least)
gregorum@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No, it isn’t. Pepper spray is illegal in Canada. That’s why they make you sign a waiver when you buy bear spray, to acknowledge that you won’t use it illegally on people.
HubertManne@kbin.social 6 months ago
to be fair. wild animals are not all that dangerous in the modern age.
rab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
But the question says ‘in the woods’ implying actual wilderness
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
There is an average of 3 deaths by bears accross North America per year, meanwhile 300 people are estimated to be murdered on federal wilds and national parks.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 6 months ago
because they arent related.
ie, if men are so terrible why do we have them teach children? the entire premise is insipid... child-like in its ignorance.
rab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Exactly. The man vs bear question is meant to spark gender warfare rather than actually speak common sense
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Your use of the phrase “gender warfare” is also meant to spark gender warfare. That article was extremely hyperbolic, your response is also hyperbolic (though less so).
Also, it certainly wasn’t intended to spark gender warfare… it was just an extremely poor expression of, what I imagine, is genuine concern.