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Alright people, that’s a wrap. I’m going to be handing out a few bans, if you think I’ve banned you wrongly (or missed someone) feel free to message as I’m only human and may make some mistakes trying to navigate this dumpster fire of a comments section.
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Oh god mgtow. That whole thing is a walking red flag
For anybody else who hadn’t heard about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Going_Their_Own_Way
Back when I first heard about it I thought it was really nice that there was a group of men supporting each other in rejecting the idea that heterosexual monogamy was the only path to a fulfilled life. Life is full of disappointment.
I’ve seen this one before! In The Little Rascals!
I generally dislike writing off people (or groups or things) based on a soundbite or a hashtag - I’d much rather evaluate for myself whether there’s any decent and informative point to the content.
#mgtow though… The very presence of it makes one cringe, and I can’t think of an occasion when it hasn’t descended into a dumpster fire from there.
I suppose it’s nice of them to flag their own content so well really.
The concept of it isn’t intrinsically bad. There’s nothing wrong with men who just want to be single and focus on things other than relationships. The problem arose when it was co-opted by hateful incels and misogynists.
Co-opted my ass. It was started by incels pretending to be stoics.
Huh, must have changed a bit. When I came across it years ago it seemed like a reasonably healthy response for an incel - stop worrying about women and work on yourself.
IDK, I’m not sold.
Neither Man nor Bear isn’t presented as an option, the choices were Man or Bear so anybody who chooses Bear is CHOOSING THE BEAR. Bears are not kind to humans in their territory, if you run into a mother then you’re going to be torn apart.
Too lazy to look through my post history but iirc men are MUCH more likely to kill someone than a bear, adjusted for population. You can search through it if you’d like. Men are much more violent than bears.
See that’s actually not true, because there are more men total than bears total and people are generally much more exposed to men than bears. Let’s say you go to a city and walk past a hundred people. Bears are safer, so you’d be perfectly justified to walk past a hundred bears?
I don’t think you understand what adjusted for population means. Bears kill like 2.6 people a year.
Humans kill ~11,000 times as many, and have 100 times the population. So humans are 110x more likely to kill you than a bear. (Note this is humans, not men. Men are responsible for 87.5% of known murders, but 50% of the population.) Adjusting for this, men are ~145 to 200x more likely to kill a human than a bear (like a quarter of murders are unknown so I gave it a wide range) You also have to take into account humans are generally bound by society and thus most human interaction won’t be as dangerous where as it’s not like a bears gonna be like “uh oh there are cameras here or other people might see me kill this person” so like… yeah you can’t perfectly account for everything but uh, point being bears really aren’t that dangerous if you see one alone in the woods.
Also sorry if I didn’t provide links and math might be slightly whatever I was taking and shit and honestly don’t care that much.
Edit: and before you try and say anything else please note this is me being nice and only looking at literal murder. Ignoring assault and sexual assault and etc, which all bear attacks are about 35 a year total and… yeah human numbers are uh, MUCH higher.
This ignores exposure time though which is a huge factor, and makes the comparison disingenuous.
So, certain death is preferable to meeting the average male randomly in the woods, in other words, the average woman believes the average man will rape and kill her. That’s all we need to say about male/female relations in 2026.
Don’t forget the part where the meeting was anonymous and without consequences. The men would basically act like they would online.
If you believe people would act the same in person as they do online if there’s no one around to judge them, I have a bridge to sell you.
I do act like I do online, I’m typically grumpy, but will help when asked.
With women, I’m a bit more awkward, but force myself to interact, so I got friends there. Not even trying to go romance or you know, fuck anyone atm.
I feel an almost smug superiority to my co-workers because I’m not afraid to hitch a ride with a woman. They don’t act weird in a woman’s presence, but talk sexualy about that same one all the time.
If it’s brown, lie down. If it’s black, fight back.
This week on another episode of “Missing the Forest for the Trees”!
This is the first time I’ve ever seen the phrase used to justify ignorance of danger, on basis of statistical outliers ignoring all context and risk factors. It kind of works but it’s also incredibly stupid.
Since that’s not what it was being used to justify, you’ve helpfully proven my point by reenacting it, staring at the tree and insisting it’s the forest.
This happens more often than you’d think, so don’t feel too bad.
And I will always choose the bear I will always choose the wolves No matter what they do, they wouldn’t blame my clothes I would rather choose to die Let my body decompose Cause even when you’re ash, thеy will never let you go
Tell us you haven’t lived in a place with black bears without telling us.
800 lbs of pure “i’m sorry, i didn’t mean it, please don’t hurt me, i’m someone’s little boy”
Man this comment caused quite the replies lol
A couple of them are just some tankies I regularly piss off, though.
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A bear wouldn’t have made such a post in the first place. So already men is worse.
Bear - kills someone. Man - posts something. Man is worse. Is that what you’re saying?
I never saw a bear do a mass shooting, or sentence someone to life in prison, or waterboard someone, or build an oil pipeline, or pass a tax cut for the rich. Men are way more powerful than bears, so they have to be better. Strength is for protecting the weak.
Which bear has killed someone? Nowhere in the debate is an actual bear present.
And even if there was a bear, are you going to ignore all the killing men has done in the same time frame?
The vast majority of bears have never hurt anyone.
no. clearly no. bears are opportunist cowards. you can deal with them quite easily. yes, they’re dangerous, but they’re not ever actively problems.
i’m curious why you’re judging the bear by the worst possible outcome rather than the most likely outcome and the man by this specific outcome.
You’re telling that he don’t have a grin on his face? You go to so much effort to faint the ignorance about the obvious “you get what youn deserved” tone of the work.
You’re better than this. Or at the very least you should strive to be.
There is no logical fallacy. They are responding to a self-identified incel (the mgtow hashtag in the picture). They know what they are about, and it is a waste of time pretending they are not.
Post of a kind “Men once again prove women right”
This argument is so dumb. Women are assuming the random man will rape them just because (what?) and men are assuming the women would rather get mauled to death by a bear (likely) then what I think they’re thinking is that they can befriend it or something? It is mildly insulting when someone says to your face “I’d rather be mauled to death than spend a second alone with you”. I’ve never come across this situation in real life however so I think this is a nonsense internet argument intended to drum up division and distract us from making guillotines.
They chose a bear. What did they expect?
“Mastodon”
Please read the sidebar.
Maybe call the community “peoplesocialmedia” instead
It’s a play on the ‘White People Twitter’ communities, i.e. sh.itjust.works/c/whitepeopletwitter or reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/, removing the unnecessary racial and corpo elements.
I’m going to be honest, why would anyone want only to see content from Mastodon social media users. Is there something you find specifically unique about their users commentary?
Yeah that’s fair. I was kinda hoping for a community though that celebrates funny moments on mastodon. You know, because it is a niche social media site that could use some advertisement.
Well if it’s any consolation, Mastodon does make up the largest share of content here out of any platform - only because I manually go to Mastodon and clip stuff my self to share.
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itt: people not knowing how bears operate
This makes me throw up in my mouth, its just revolting. Miss me with Facebook anything
I’m not gonna fight a bear, that would result in two dead people. This image is something else, though
