BathysphereHat

BathysphereHat, 2 days ago

Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool. Good language.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

Here's the thing: the fact that multiple men have committed violence against me is very closely statistically tied to the fact that I regularly encounter human men. It's not because most men are dangerous.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

The fact that I've never been harmed by a bear is closely tied to the fact that I've never encountered a bear in the wild.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

But what's actually going on here is that people are expressing their feelings, not literal and clearheaded answers to the literal question of whether they'd rather encounter a man or a bear.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

As an autistic person, I find this mode of communication confusing and frustrating, but that doesn't excuse the men who are getting really mad and being fucked up towards women about it.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

What I do find actually really fucked up about this is that the man in supposed to be a stranger. Men who commit violence against women are almost never strangers, they're partners and family members and such.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

If you made the question "Would you rather encounter a bear alone in the woods or a man you DO know?" the answer would probably be almost universally "man", even though that's actually a more dangerous proposition than encountering a man you don't know.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

So my frustration with this discourse isn't that it's "misandry" or some shit. It's not even that people aren't being very good at statistics. It's the stranger danger, true crime brainworms.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

The first kind of harm this kind of stranger danger thinking does is to the people encouraged to think that way: paranoia is a painful thing. But it also hurts people they encounter. The Uber driver in Texas is an extreme example, but it's also people who've had the cops called on them for just existing in public near someone who got scared, people who've had their images posted online with baseless accusations of stalking and attempted kidnapping, etc.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

And beyond that, people are hurt by policies enacted because of this kind of paranoia about strangers. It's used to justify increasing surveillance, giving more power to the cops, etc - things that contribute to the rising tide of fascism.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

Framing this thinking as a gender politics thing, a case of Men Just Don't Understand What It's Like To Be A Woman, puts a progressive facade on regressive, reactionary thinking.

BathysphereHat, 5 days ago

It's also worth noting that the men who are most harmed are marginalised men, especially Latino and Black men.

BathysphereHat, 6 days ago

@rooster It's so cute when really pretty girls try to look ugly.

BathysphereHat, 7 days ago

@soft Girls love it when a guy doesn't have a nose.

BathysphereHat, 15 days ago

@puppygirlhornypost Oh are you talking about the "if you have decorative pillows, you're part of the bourgeoisie" discourse?

BathysphereHat, 15 days ago

I just have a lot of questions.

BathysphereHat, 15 days ago

Thoughts:

• Mucus isn't even the reason we need to bathe.
• Did he think everyone was covered in mucus all the time? Like a snail or a slug??
• Not producing mucus would be really bad. Like, it serves a lot of important purposes in the body, and you'd probably die pretty fast without it.
• Didn't he get itchy?
• What the fuck, Steve?

BathysphereHat, 16 days ago

I'm just saying, I could name a lot of definitely real things that babies don't believe in.