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Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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You're overlooking that men tend to be attracted to this sort of activity more and may have greater experience. When they invite their inexperienced girlfriend, they have a duty of care towards them. You're right, sex doesn't matter and this could be reversed, but you need to ask yourself where the statistic lie.
This is not sexist. You've found the wrong conclusion.
I live in hiking prime area. This is not true in any way.
Not enough to suggest the "men are innately better hikers" thing the person I was replying to was alluding to.
That's my point. I call bullshit on that.
I think you're both talking past each other. You are technically correct that men are statistically more likely to be interested in hiking and experienced in hiking. They are correct in their ived experience that they have seen just as many men and women as experienced hikers personally. I can also attest to feeling this.
I've worked in the outdoor industry where the norm was to be paired up with a co-leader of the opposite gender. When you are living in an outdoor area with lots of avid hikers, it doesn't seem like a big preponderance of men. Those few percentage points doesn't seem to make that big a difference.
Maybe the women in the same situation feel like there are more men out there? I don't know. I've heard that one feature of having privilege is not realizing that there's anything privileged about your position. That would make sense to me that the men in the situation don't realize it if they outnumber the women.
Like stoly said, this thread is all about feelings.
This thread is all about feelings
This is why anecdotal evidence has little use in the real world.
Yes but the story of MJ doesn't talk about experience. It's just talks about gender.
because it's rage bait. It's not about hiking, it's about men being awful to women and fanning the flames of gender war rage.
Seeing as that's you doing it I would think it's only you who can stop it.
Poor you. Why don't you just block me then? It might help with your rage problem.
The fact you think calling people out on their shit is rage, is very telling.
So is calling yourself tittyfrog.
right, because usernames reveal deep insights into people, and aren't just random bullshit they make up.