• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Cry me a river. I’ve never heard a women say “don’t approach me”, but I’ve heard many say “don’t be a douche” and “stop thinking you’re a fucking victim”.

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        The fact that yall are still this mad about this just proves that the entire point behind the thought experiment is right.

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          The bear metaphor was obviously thinly veiled racism/xenophobia from the start. Lots of conservative/moderate women who are terrified of anyone who isn’t white or who is “illegal”

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              The goal was to increase fear of the “other” - which is a classic right wing tactic.

              The bear meme was a conservative astroturfed campaign to push people right - which is why it appeared shortly before the 2024 US elections

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            That’s…just no. Wtf? No.

            Source: I’ve actually listened to women, in person, describe their reasoning, instead of making up my own justification for something like the incel community decided to do.

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              The goal was to increase fear of the “other” - which is a classic right wing tactic.

              The bear meme was a conservative astroturfed campaign to push people right - which is why it appeared shortly before the 2024 US elections

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                  No it isn’t, it’s literally what astroturfing is and how public relations campaigns are run. I know people who literally do shit like this for a living

                  Doesn’t mean the original meme was created by an agency necessarily, but it certainly was boosted and amplified by conservatives to spark anger against PoCs/immigrants, and to build intergender resentment amongst men. Which worked wonderfully for Trump, as is evidenced by his strong performance with Gen Z men

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                    No, the uniformed idiotic women hating fake rationalization you can see continuing throughout this very thread may have been spread to the Andrew Tate following incel crowd to further stoke their anger. But that’s them capitalizing on their gullibility and refusal to speak to actual women about why they feel that way.

                    You probably said this thing was STARTED as a racist othering campaign. That’s very different from someone trying to CHANGE an already existing narrative to suit their own ends. And none of those narratives were ever about race, it was always a gender thing.

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        IDK women are not scared of me. Maybe the problem is you? Maybe you’re not the victim you think you are and you’re just an ass?

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        Apparently you already forgot their reasoning behind it. A bear is a known quantity. Humans can lie to gain your trust, then turn on you. They weren’t saying all men are bad, they were saying that meeting a stand man alone in the woods - you have no idea how this person will act.