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It's a war because people like you make it a binary thing. The entire purpose of this particular video was to create divide and paint men in bad light to farm engagement.
I'm not offended by this because I'm a "sensitive insecure men who insist it's always somehow the woman's own fault when she gets raped"
I don't actually believe that.
I'm just annoyed. I'm just a harmless guy trying to live my life yet I am constantly being told that I am worse than hitler for existing as a male. Sorry I have a penis? I swear I didn't do it on purpose. It just kinda grew in me I didn't have a say.
Please, by all means, pick the bear if you want to or don't. I don't care. Leave me the fuck alone, it's all I am asking. I just want to exist in peace. Stop bothering me with that shit.
and here you are engaging, by your own volition i might add. in order to do what? make sure everyone knows you're a nice guy? that you're not "offended," you're just "annoyed"? your last paragraph certainly reads as much more than just "annoyed"
also, i am a man, though i'm not surprised in the least that someone who plays the "I am constantly being told that I am worse than hitler for existing as a male" victim card assumes i must be a woman. i have to say though, if you're constantly being told this, as you say, then have you ever considered the possibility that the problem might be in something you're doing? i have literally never been told that in my life. i know there are man-hating women out there, but i don't engage with them. why? because i assume they'd rather i leave them alone. actions speak louder than victim cards
by doing what, exactly? not pointing out the fact that way too many women have reasons of their own not to trust strange men? or even fear them? i find that to be tragic, and honestly people who respond to things like this with "no! me! I'M the victim!" make the whole thing worse
I didn't assume you were a woman. At no point in my comment I mentioned gender except my own.
I'm not surprised someone likes you makes everything about gender and completely missed the point.
lol sure bud.
please link me to enough instances of men being asked if they would choose bear or woman to make your above statement not imply that you think you're talking to a woman. i'll wait.
so please tell me again: what was your point? i honestly can't find anything other than it's "divisive" and you're the one who's the victim here, and leave me alone. so, sincerely, help me understand your point of view
Bears don't discriminate gender.
lol way to address one single thing that has the least to do with the issue at hand
also a bear may or may not attack, but they will definitely not rape you
go ahead and look up the number of bear attacks in a year vs. the number of rapes (keeping in mind that number is only reflecting how many were actually reported). even if you take out the false accusations, you're still statistically better off choosing bear. even if you're a man choosing bear over man
anyway nice chatting. i hope you find a woman who chooses man and gives you the trust and respect you're clearly entitled to
See, you did the thing again where you just straight up invent things about me.
I never claimed I was entitled to trust and respect.
Also, wow did you just assume I am straight?
I hope you find someone who chooses man and guides you towards being less of a twat.
Careful, he's sensitive! You might offend him! Just leave him alone, why don't you?!?
These dudes are so, so, SO whiny. Literally on a thread where no one invited them just saying "I'M NICE BUT LEAVE ME ALONE" lolololol
the thing that truly annoys me is people who think they're owed respect and trust--two things that, to my mind, have to be earned. i don't just give those things away for free either. sadly a lot of men think they're entitled to women's automatic utmost respect, while feeling no obligation to return that respect
evidenced by the number of men who take it as a personal attack on themselves when a woman chooses bear
People not trusting strangers is normal. People who think they are owed exemption from this are untrustworthy.
Sometimes you gotta think about who's asking the question and why, and not just about the answer. (To that original question.)
Oh, I know that.
Who's asking: morons.
Why: engagement farming.
It could be, or it could be for more nefarious purposes such as sowing discontent and distrust.
Nah, I don't think so. The discontent and distrust is a side effect.