kagan, 1 day ago to random

The new "response" to "bear or man?" is so stupid, I can't even figure out what these guys are thinking, or what "point" they think they're making. (And why a tree?! 🤣)

Like, are they really trying to equate sharing their feelings with getting mauled by a bear? Or with what women are justifiably afraid men might do to them in the woods?

"Would you rather open up to a woman or a tree?" says way more about the men themselves than women, trees, or anything else. #ManVsBear #ManOrBear #BearOrMan

toplesstopics, 14 days ago to random

Me: "the men saying they hope women get mauled for choosing the bear in #bearOrMan debate are unhinged"
men commenting on the above video:

MicheleV_AK, 19 days ago to random

A hypothetical question going viral on social media asks women if they’d rather be alone in the woods with an unknown man or a bear.

Majority of women are choosing the bear. Reasons women say they’d choose the bear.

“The bear will either kill me or leave me alone, there are not 400 other horrible ways a bear can hurt me,” the post read.

Among other reasons, according to the post, that women said they would choose the bear:

“No one would question me about what I was wearing if the bear attacked me.”
“If I survive the bear attack, I will not have to see the bear at family reunions.”
“A bear would not film it and send it to his friends.”
“No one will question if the bear attack really happened.”
#IChooseTheBear #BearOrMan #WomenChooseTheBear
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/05/07/viral-question-asks-women-if-theyd-rather-be-alone-woods-with-bear-or-man/

toplesstopics, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

Graphic I struggled in an awkward phone app to make while watching my (cis white male) kids play at the park. This essentially seems to be one of the biggest barriers behind men's understanding of the #bearVSMan / #bearOrMan debate--they're so fixated on how dangerous surviving a bear attack ONCE IT'S ALREADY ATTACKED is, vs what all us women are saying: which one is more LIKELY to attack in the first place. (no comment on the inshells who literally believe that bear attacks happen more often than even just femicide, ignoring all the other forms of SA that can be much worse than death)

There are of course many other reasons why the majority of women asked choose bear ("they can't impregnate you then force you to marry them" and "they can't buy a gun to get revenge on you for saying no" to name but a few), and the type of men who are too busy mansplaining how deadly a bear attack is ONCE IT'S ALREADY ATTACKED will never shut tf up long enough to learn why they're completely missing the point.

I gotta go make dinner so I can't finish writing all of this out... But hopefully the point is made. Now to prepare for all the inshell meninists who still snidely refuse to accept why they're the reason we choose bear 🙃

(igtg so I'll add alt text later)

Edit: changed the wording to be clearer on the graphic