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[-] Zero22xx 94 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Was the Reddit version of this community like this with people coming in to 'both sides' the conversation? I don't think it was like this. Lemmy has a real problem with people just not caring about what the community is before they come in to drop their hot their hot takes. I've even seen people go into !reddit@lemmy.world to complain about people posting about Reddit. I mean, come on.

As for that 18% of violent crimes being committed by women stat, that still means 82% of the perpetrators were men, so that's hardly the pwn it was made out to be. It's grasping at straws to keep ignoring that there's any problem.

I'll also just leave this here:

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's just All Lives Matter again isn't it? They don't care, they just want you to stop talking about it.

[-] jojowakaki@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Man here. It took me a lot of therapy and help to understand that my (or someone's) suffering doesn't mean less just because there are a lot of others who are suffering more.

I used to say crap like this too, if someone said 'X group of people have this problem'. I'd be like 'but Y has the same problem but to higher extent'. I didn't say it out of malice, at least I don't think so. lt was natural to think 'how can you be complaning about X when Y has the same problem but more'. Maybe I just believed that first you address the problem with bigger statistical number, then we do the smaller one after that and so on, but I dont know. I know now, that is a shitty way to think about things.

I guess it has something to do with how I was raised, 'your problems aren't that great, there are people with bigger problems and in comparison your life is a luxury. So chin up and carry on'. And I lived by it and parroted the same rhetoric for a long time. I believe most people (men?) do the same not out of malice but because of this shitty view of life and the world, because how they were raised, because how people told them how their problem can be ignored because someone else has a bigger problem. and they don't know any better. At least I didn't for a long time.

[-] pipes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

In other words: don't change the status quo, it's all good. I think most of us were raised like that, and it's a load of bs; in reality that's how things slowly get worse for all, or we can continuously make many small bets striving for good so things get better.

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[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I like to think of most interactions as gender-less on Lemmy. I don't want to assume who I'm talking to.

[-] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I think it’s partially due to the relatively small population and quantity of posts. Anecdotally, I never browsed r/all, but that’s my primary mode on Lemmy. I usually don’t notice the community a post belongs to unless someone brings it up.

Maybe that will change with time.

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[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago
[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 28 points 2 months ago
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago

Say his name. Harambe. flop

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[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Female bears with no cubs to protect, practically docile.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Funny post, good point, but let's not pretend women never commit violent offences. 2022 had 18% of known perpetrators being female in the US.

Edit: For the rage blind morons in the comments, this is specifically directed at the asinine comment in the OP saying "From Who?" As if they've made a slam dunk point or something.

[-] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 98 points 2 months ago
[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's not a counter example, it's a statistic. Puting your fingers in your ears and going "Nuh uh Nuh uh I can't hear your" doesn't help anyone

[-] MummysLittleBloodSlut 7 points 2 months ago

It doesn't matter. Women don't need men to protect us from women. We can solve our own problems if misogyny gets out of the way

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I want to agree with that post, as it's (generally) a point that bears repeating, but it's too close to a catch 22 that it undermines the point

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[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 91 points 2 months ago

Fun fact: In a society of all women, women would suddenly be the known perpetrators of 100% of all violent offences!

[-] potoo22@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago

I'm reading this as crime rates would be reduced by 82%. Not 100%, but that's pretty damn good. And given that women are more likely to attack people they know, discord amoung your friend group or family would be more dangerous than walking in public.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago

That’s already true. Stranger danger is a complete media fabrication.

[-] Transtronaut 11 points 2 months ago

It also makes me curious what percentage of that 18% was directed towards men as opposed to women. All that would be left in this hypothetical is women-on-women violence, so anything else should be discounted for a fair comparison.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You see how that's still bad right? I'm saying let's not just ignore ANY of these statistics and y'all are trying to do gymnastics to make a dumb meme more rational.

[-] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago

Can we talk about the 82% first? Sounds more important in the moment

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[-] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Plus how many adult women murder adult men? It's rare, and women being murdered by men is far more likely

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

So you're saying we could cut violent crime by roughly 80% if we were rid of men? Neat

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Women also are more involved in the sexual assault of children than most people realize, but they are extremely underreported (due to patriarchal biases in our society, largely). Men still commit more offenses, but patriarchy is a double-edged sword in that it causes more women to be victimized and also protects female perpetrators of violence from punishment.

That said, men still commit much more violent crime and we should do better as a society to prevent that through social programs, education, etc.

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[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Oh no. Get the men back, because women can't run a society?

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Did I say that? No. I said let's not ignore real numbers. 18% is not an insignificant amount of violent crime

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This whole chain of thought relies on assumptions and this is where it needs to be exited?

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[-] Laser@feddit.org 38 points 2 months ago
[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How the fuck are so many random internet people buying blue checkmarks? Depressing as fuck that this blatant money grab/propaganda tool from a right wing asshole worked so well with no negative consequences.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Consumerism.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

I’m getting a similar kind of aneurysm reading the “bUt NoT aLL mEn” comments here as I get when I browse conservative subreddits

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Remember the bear clusterfuck? Lemmy is pretty bad in this regard.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you draw your community from Redditors you're going to inherit Reddit problems, aka poorly socialized nerds.

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

State's rights energy.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

Well yes, because there would be no human race at all.

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[-] JulieLemming@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who would you prefer to meet in the woods? a hexbear or a human?

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[-] Boppel@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago
[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Holy strawman.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If men stoped existing sure.

But if men never existed?

[-] Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Then humanity would have been extinct from the beginning. Women can't reproduce by fucking themselves or other women.

[-] Ashenlux 5 points 2 months ago

Well, in this scenario where the male sex never developed, humans would have to develop asexual reproduction, or develop hermaphrodidic and reproduce like slugs.

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