• endhits@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s not every man, no.

    The survey said “man or bear”. Not “rapist or bear”. So yes, this is absolutely targeting men as a whole. Don’t piss in my mouth and call it lemonade.

    . Almost all people that commit sexual assault are men. (Of the men that are sexually assaulted, most are, yes, assaulted by other men.)

    All that has been reported, yes. It is a common occurrence for men to not report being sexually assaulted, and there have been cases where they were literally turned away. I’m by no means an extrovert, and I know at least 3 men who were sexually assaulted by WOMEN as children and it never resulted in any form of justice. One of them was laughed at when they told a trusted adult.

    Keeping in mind that >80% of all women have been the target of unwanted sexual attention from a man, how would you expect them to identify and avoid threats?

    Assuming unwanted sexual attention includes any form of unwanted sexual advances, unwanted sexual attention is NOT equivalent to rape and you are doing rape victims a massive disservice by trying to lump them into the same issue.

    My dude, I live in bear country

    That’s awful convenient

    The average number of people killed by bears each year in the US is 1.6. That’s it. Not even two people, on average, per year, in a country of 340,000,000 people. So, no, they are not likely to maul you to death.

    None of this changes the fact that they would trust a wild animal as powerful as a bear to over a fellow human being they know nothing about. It’s sexism. Naked sexism. You can try to justify and twist it, but it’s sexism all the same. I apply my principles evenly. Do you?

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      6 months ago

      I know at least 3 men who were sexually assaulted by WOMEN

      My dude, almost every woman I know has been assaulted.

      Assuming unwanted sexual attention includes any form of unwanted sexual advances

      No, I mean things like sexual harassment.

      That’s awful convenient

      No, it was intentional. I didn’t want to live in cities anymore. I live in Appalachia now. Moved here from Chicago; i’d def. rather deal with bears than CPD.