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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Jacob

Hmmm... well... I live in a place where bears are fairly frequent. I can tell you that more women are killed by men every year than are killed by bears. I'd wager that the number of incidents of women having had encounters where they felt threatened or scared by a man's behaviour is orders of magnitude greater than those who've had scary encounters with bears. I think most women have felt endangered by a man at some point in there lives; and if they haven't, they know a women who has. I doubt the same is true when it comes to bears.

Perhaps if you calculated the rate of scary encounters and the rate of murders per encounter, men would be statistically safer than bears due to the large number of encounters. But in terms of absolute numbers men have a much higher impact on women's safety than bears.

It seems only natural that this would impact women's threat perception. And it seems pretty silly to be offended by that, IMO.

Syt

Hey, some people are just into bears.
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Josquius

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 05, 2024, 01:41:38 AMMy mind could be changed with reliable statistics but i strongly suspect the bear is infinitely more dangerous.

I suspect the statistics will be broken and include all forms of sexual violence as points against men rather than the specific randomly raping or killing a stranger one we are looking at here.

They're also unlikely to account for the relatively low number of bears and their tendency to avoid areas full of humans.

It's the usual tick tock shit to try and turn genders against each other.
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garbon

Quote from: Josquius on May 05, 2024, 01:51:51 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 05, 2024, 01:41:38 AMMy mind could be changed with reliable statistics but i strongly suspect the bear is infinitely more dangerous.

I suspect the statistics will be broken and include all forms of sexual violence as points against men rather than the specific randomly raping or killing a stranger one we are looking at here.

They're also unlikely to account for the relatively low number of bears and their tendency to avoid areas full of humans.

It's the usual tick tock shit to try and turn genders against each other.

That doesn't appear to be the goal.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

Quote from: Jacob on May 05, 2024, 01:49:17 AMHmmm... well... I live in a place where bears are fairly frequent. I can tell you that more women are killed by men every year than are killed by bears. I'd wager that the number of incidents of women having had encounters where they felt threatened or scared by a man's behaviour is orders of magnitude greater than those who've had scary encounters with bears. I think most women have felt endangered by a man at some point in there lives; and if they haven't, they know a women who has. I doubt the same is true when it comes to bears.

Perhaps if you calculated the rate of scary encounters and the rate of murders per encounter, men would be statistically safer than bears due to the large number of encounters. But in terms of absolute numbers men have a much higher impact on women's safety than bears.

It seems only natural that this would impact women's threat perception. And it seems pretty silly to be offended by that, IMO.

My only real qualm, slight as it is, with this reasoning is that if a similar tik tok was produced with ethnicities rather that a human vs bear scenario then similar reasoning could be used to defend it.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Jacob

What are you doing up at this hour HVC? Go to bed!

HVC

Quote from: Jacob on May 05, 2024, 02:17:32 AMWhat are you doing up at this hour HVC? Go to bed!

 Haha, it was my aunts 91st birthday, and as a general rule Portuguese get togethers tend to go late.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

Quote from: HVC on May 05, 2024, 02:14:07 AM
Quote from: Jacob on May 05, 2024, 01:49:17 AMHmmm... well... I live in a place where bears are fairly frequent. I can tell you that more women are killed by men every year than are killed by bears. I'd wager that the number of incidents of women having had encounters where they felt threatened or scared by a man's behaviour is orders of magnitude greater than those who've had scary encounters with bears. I think most women have felt endangered by a man at some point in there lives; and if they haven't, they know a women who has. I doubt the same is true when it comes to bears.

Perhaps if you calculated the rate of scary encounters and the rate of murders per encounter, men would be statistically safer than bears due to the large number of encounters. But in terms of absolute numbers men have a much higher impact on women's safety than bears.

It seems only natural that this would impact women's threat perception. And it seems pretty silly to be offended by that, IMO.

My only real qualm, slight as it is, with this reasoning is that if a similar tik tok was produced with ethnicities rather that a human vs bear scenario then similar reasoning could be used to defend it.

We are now worried about the slippery slope of tik tok arguments?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

Quote from: garbon on May 05, 2024, 02:36:16 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 05, 2024, 02:14:07 AM
Quote from: Jacob on May 05, 2024, 01:49:17 AMHmmm... well... I live in a place where bears are fairly frequent. I can tell you that more women are killed by men every year than are killed by bears. I'd wager that the number of incidents of women having had encounters where they felt threatened or scared by a man's behaviour is orders of magnitude greater than those who've had scary encounters with bears. I think most women have felt endangered by a man at some point in there lives; and if they haven't, they know a women who has. I doubt the same is true when it comes to bears.

Perhaps if you calculated the rate of scary encounters and the rate of murders per encounter, men would be statistically safer than bears due to the large number of encounters. But in terms of absolute numbers men have a much higher impact on women's safety than bears.

It seems only natural that this would impact women's threat perception. And it seems pretty silly to be offended by that, IMO.

My only real qualm, slight as it is, with this reasoning is that if a similar tik tok was produced with ethnicities rather that a human vs bear scenario then similar reasoning could be used to defend it.

We are now worried about the slippery slope of tik tok arguments?

... I guess? Perhaps more worried about the slippery slope of the defence is more accurate? It's a tik tok, so I don't care. Someone is trying to get views, good for them. I guess they get money for it?

That being said just because I don't really care I don't think someone who has a view that the trend is insidious, like say Josq, isn't  wholly without merit.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Brain

I suspect that a woman has a much higher chance of scaring off a bear than scaring off a man.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

Quote from: HVC on May 05, 2024, 02:41:22 AM... I guess? Perhaps more worried about the slippery slope of the defence is more accurate? It's a tik tok, so I don't care. Someone is trying to get views, good for them. I guess they get money for it?

That being said just because I don't really care I don't think someone who has a view that the trend is insidious, like say Josq, isn't  wholly without merit.

Ostensibly the point of the 'meme' is to highlight to men the danger that they pose. It isn't to educate women as they already know men are a danger. Trying to spread that recognition isn't trying to 'turn genders against each other' but rather maybe naively hoping that if men are aware, they'll do better.

That's a bit different than saying if someone did so with races. For one, presumably one would be attempting to perpetuate stereotypes about racial minorities. That's leave aside nuances of numbers and proportionality as I'm sure there are cuts that could show what we all know...white people are dangerous. ;)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: garbon on May 05, 2024, 03:16:19 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 05, 2024, 02:41:22 AM... I guess? Perhaps more worried about the slippery slope of the defence is more accurate? It's a tik tok, so I don't care. Someone is trying to get views, good for them. I guess they get money for it?

That being said just because I don't really care I don't think someone who has a view that the trend is insidious, like say Josq, isn't  wholly without merit.

Ostensibly the point of the 'meme' is to highlight to men the danger that they pose. It isn't to educate women as they already know men are a danger. Trying to spread that recognition isn't trying to 'turn genders against each other' but rather maybe naively hoping that if men are aware, they'll do better.

That's a bit different than saying if someone did so with races. For one, presumably one would be attempting to perpetuate stereotypes about racial minorities. That's leave aside nuances of numbers and proportionality as I'm sure there are cuts that could show what we all know...white people are dangerous. ;)

I'm confused.  Do black men *not* pose a danger that they should be aware of in hopes they change, or they do but the greater good is to not perpetuate a stereotype?

garbon

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 05, 2024, 05:06:42 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 05, 2024, 03:16:19 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 05, 2024, 02:41:22 AM... I guess? Perhaps more worried about the slippery slope of the defence is more accurate? It's a tik tok, so I don't care. Someone is trying to get views, good for them. I guess they get money for it?

That being said just because I don't really care I don't think someone who has a view that the trend is insidious, like say Josq, isn't  wholly without merit.

Ostensibly the point of the 'meme' is to highlight to men the danger that they pose. It isn't to educate women as they already know men are a danger. Trying to spread that recognition isn't trying to 'turn genders against each other' but rather maybe naively hoping that if men are aware, they'll do better.

That's a bit different than saying if someone did so with races. For one, presumably one would be attempting to perpetuate stereotypes about racial minorities. That's leave aside nuances of numbers and proportionality as I'm sure there are cuts that could show what we all know...white people are dangerous. ;)

I'm confused.  Do black men *not* pose a danger that they should be aware of in hopes they change, or they do but the greater good is to not perpetuate a stereotype?

I'm sorry.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi