• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The point isn’t the bear

    The point is ABSOLUTELY the fucking bear. We KNOW you should be cautious around random men. That’s an obvious goddamn statement. The fact that you’d pick a bear is what’s sexist and insulting.

    Have you ever even SEEN a wild bear?

    I’ve never been shot in the head but I wouldn’t pick that over a strange person.

    So fucking stupid.

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      6 months ago

      Be a useless coward if you want. Spend your time being scared of something that is more scared of you than most people are of it (not you, tho).

      I live in Georgia. There’s bears here that ain’t scary, and I can say that about all of them (seeing as cocaine bear is dead). I can NOT say they same thing about all the men I could run into in the woods at night in Georgia.

      But sure, tell me again how ackshually the thing I should really be scared of is bears… ooh, and how about tigers? They’re really scary, right?

      Why, did you know that when they are really little, like just newborn, men can’t even walk or hold a gun? Did you also know that most men don’t ever murder their partners? Doesn’t that seem safe? Surely more women are harmed by bears (and probably tigers, too) than little old men!

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        6 months ago

        First of all, that’s just black bears, the most cowardly of bears.

        Second, it’s too damn hot in Georgia for a bear to maul someone.

        Thirdly, if you encountered as many strange bears daily as you did strange men, you’d be eaten by now.

        Have you ever been shot in the head? Probably not. Well, since you don’t have experience with it, you’re not afraid of it, right? So better a bullet to the head than a strange man in the woods. Bullet has never harmed me.

        All the responses siding with the bear so far have been either sexist or stupid. I’m gonna put you with stupid.

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          If I’d ever been shot in the head I can only assume it wasn’t a damn bear that did it. But sure. I should piss my pants at the sight of a wild animal. And pay no nevermind to the actually dangerous creature.

          Like the bears ain’t scary around here, but we do see alligators often. Still less scary than a random man in the dark when you’re alone.

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            6 months ago

            That’s not true and wildly unhealthy for you to believe. Not least of all because you might get your leg ripped into by a gator.

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          6 months ago

          I think you’re forgetting the part wear the bear doesn’t tie you to a tree and force feed you to use you. See the bear will mostly likely leave you alone. Or kill you.

          On the other hand. A human male can do FAR worse things than simply kill the woman. Which I will say some men would just kill the woman. And to my understanding of the last 6000 years of recorded history… Men do in fact do worse things than the bear.

          Here’s a statue dedicated to it!

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            6 months ago

            See the bear will mostly likely leave you alone.

            So will the man, that’s the whole fucking point.

            You’re taking worst case scenario with the man vs best case scenario with the bear.

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      6 months ago

      Why did you capitalize KNOW when referring to how dangerous men are? And mention how obvious it should be for one to be cautious around them? As if they’re some sort of wildly unpredictable animal (unlike a bear, a fairly predictable wild animal). And why do you seem to be on the one hand so fucking irritated that anyone else acknowledge that same fact and on the other so damned pissed that you had to point it out?

      By the way, I do know a woman who was shot, in the god damned head. And she lived! You may be surprised to learn her husband wasn’t a bear.