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

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

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          Yeah this meme as well as the original bear one were meant to be divisive and make people angry. That’s the point of these kinds of memes, they’re not really meant to be intelligent, they’re meant to stir up drama and make people fight.

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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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      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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      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?