yup. all kinds of people in this thread equating "encountering a bear" to "being mauled by a bear"

clearly they haven't met a moose

but yeah, animals mostly just want to be left alone. usually it is pretty easy to do that when you come across one

Na, never has been different. Look up any thread that even mildly implies men could do something wrong and it's only hate from there on.

I wonder why tough. Lemmy is fairly left, pro LGBTQI+, etc. but in regards to anything mildly feminist you get... well, this kind of lovely thread.

the root of most hate, and i mean like… DEEP hate isn't any active emotion towards another person but instead an unwillingness to audit our blindspots. what i see a lot on lemmy is people who are steeped in Internet Culture who assume that they are progressive, forward thinking, and have it all figured out. i try to come into discussions with the mindset that i'm guilty of this, too, and that i'm a work in progress.

there's also a deep seated fundamental misunderstanding of what feminism is here that matches very directly to what you would get used to seeing on reddit. it's kind of funny, because it demonstrates that the Read Theory bros theories don't consider critical marxist analysis of gender to be part of the theory that needs to be read, which is frustrating, bordering on upsetting. anytime i recommend someone read bell hooks' Feminism is For Everyone i get antsy about how long in will take for someone who's let conservatives tell them what feminism is to tell me that's a propaganda rag and that bell hooks doesn't know what feminism is

it's like solidarity amongst the lower classes only matters up until the point when you have to start working against the oldest arbitrary division that's been used to keep us from organizing

Unfortunately no, it’s been like this since I made my first account over 2 yrs ago. It hasn’t really gotten worse but it’s also not getting better. It’s basically why the AFAB cis population of the platform is tiny. Why would women stick around when this stuff is what every post about women turns into..

I hope it may be a bit of confirmation bias. Most of the people who are not misogynists just move on after reading the meme and don't comment. I was about to do the same until I saw this comment thread, and now I'm in the gutter of other comment threads here trying to fight the good fight 🤣.

absolutely no experience talking with women

Also, most people have no experience with wildlife and think all bears are murder machines.

The vast majority of bear encounters outside of very specific locations are with black bears. In which case you just end up momentarily scaring each other and then they run away.

Just entertaining this is true, you DO realize how horrible it is to hear "I think you're more dangerous than a random bear just for existing"? And this isn't supposed to give men lasting mental health issues and extreme social anxiety?