“b-but bears are actually dangerous!” Shut the hell up.

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      Indeed. It strikes me as pointlessly gendered. All people, safety is more important than feelings.

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          or it’s purposefully gendered in response to the man vs bear thing

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            Even then it’s contradictory. Men wouldn’t be upset about being chosen over a bear and women wouldn’t be safe if the bear was chosen, so in that specific context it’s nonsensical.

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              Most bears don’t seek out and attack women, but many men do. One of those happens far more often than the other, and you’re either uninformed or willfully ignorant about that fact.

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                Yet another exhibit of people not knowing anything about bears. If bears and women had anywhere near the same amount of interactions as men and women, maulings would be up by a percentage with an alarming number of zeroes. This is like the literal equivalent to the Face Eating Leopard Party supporters being surprised that the Leopards are eating their faces.

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        you know what else is pointlessly gendered? the patriarchy

        feminist messaging has to be gendered because the patriarchy is a gender issue.

        that said, feminism is for everybody. liberating women from oppressive structures by nature does the same for men.

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          If it’s not gendered and is for everybody, that isn’t that just the original statement? That safety is for everybody? That seems rather circular.

          But I think I get what you’re saying. We focus on lifting up women, and everyone benefits.

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            yeah i see how my comment was a little confusing let me try to edit :p thanks for the good faith question tho

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              Hey no worries. More people should act in good faith in my opinion. We don’t even have to agree with everyone but we should have mutual respect for each other and want a better world.

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        If this weren’t gendered I’m not sure I would connect that this was posted as result of people’s reaction to the bears vs men thing.

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      this statement is funny to me, because linguistically, safety is a relatively “felt” concept. We “feel” exposed in a massive open field, and we “feel” safe inside of a building, because we are no longer exposed in a massive wide open field.

      In some aspects, physical safety is a thing, but given the context of this thread here, i think it’s probably appropriate to say that it’s actually the feeling of safety here, that matters more than anything. And as a result, this makes the statement a non starter.

      Because to some degree, that feeling of safety, is based on well… Feelings, and if feelings are somehow less important than the safety that those feelings are capable of deriving, than how are you supposed to experience safety?

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      Are you really all lives mattering this post rn? God damn dude. I hope every person in your life belittles every problem you personally have by telling you that tons of people have that problem.

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      There is nothing about this meme that remotely indicates people think safety is less important than feelings. This is bordering on a strawman in its most generous interpretation.