#team bear

[misandresther]

Dawg, would you look at that??😯😰😨

A trans"woman" just admitted he is a man and threatened a woman for 'hurting his feelings'. His Y chromosome must be acting up again!

[dankmemes23]

[winterr-w0nderland]

The bear vs man is more than a little silly, especially when men being PISSED that woman are picking the bear but for shits and giggles I did a little experiment

I googled news reports of women being attacked by bears in the last 24 hours, and I shit you know THIS is the only thing that popped up

Okay, the day is young and this is only the last 24 hours. But even then most bear attacks are,

A. Not fatal (people were injured but they survived)

B. The bear was provoked, confused or looking for food. Ya know. Doing normal bear things

NOW HOW MANY NEWS REPORTS OF WOMEN BEING ATTACKED BY MEN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS

ALL of these were unprovoked (not accounting for the fact a lot of these were hate crimes), by trusted men in these women lives and while some survived they have far worst trauma than they would ever get from a bear. Men are capable of unique kinds of torture and hatred that a bear could never be able to comprehend.

Worst case scenario, the bear would just kill you. Meanwhile encounters with a random man (or possibly even a man you know and trust) have far worst outcomes.

And while yes if I searched bear attacks in the last year, week, or even month I'd get more results but compare it to the amount of times women have been attacked by men and that's JUST the attacks that have been reported by the news? Yeah, I'm on team bear.

[liamrev]

I have realized something about beauty and the beast

Belle had the choice between a man (Gaston) and a big hairy brown creature with big paws (the beast)

Belle was on team bear before ANY OF YALL

[gargy1975]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65369683

Set 8-10 years after Series Finale. Roots not dead. The Machine and Root are one in the same. Roots Co-Clear Implant is deep under the skin. A chip that Root slight-of hand insert a chip into her gut shot.

[canine-stimz]

Springfest teams (Splatoon) icons, requested by me.

(pngs from this post.)

[hyperlexichypatia]

I was going to make a post about urscourse* but I got tired.

*Ursine discourse a/k/a "Would you rather meet a man or a bear in the woods?"

A bunch of women said they'd be more afraid of running into a strange man in the woods than running into a bear, a bunch of men got Big Mad, and then a bunch of progressive feminists galaxy-brained themselves into the take that this is all very wrong because misandry is a real problem.

Y'all... we do not have to take bad-faith antifeminist arguments as sincere.

No one, ever, is denying civil rights or human rights to men because they are men. No one is proposing denying civil rights or human rights to men because they are men.

The question is not "Should men be banned from going into the woods?" or "Should you call the police if you see a man in the woods?" or "Should men be discriminated against because of the bad actions of a few?"

Those things are not and never have been on the table.

"Most men aren't murderers." Correct. But the vast majority of murderers are men.

"What about Good Men?" What about them?

"What about queer or otherwise marginalized men?" Again, what about them?

"Women do bad things too!" They do. It's just that stranger murder and stranger sexual assault are very, very rarely among them.

"Stranger violence is vanishingly rare already! Most assaults and murders are committed by someone the victim knows!" Yep. They're rare. And when they do happen, they're almost always perpetrated by men.

"Gender is a social construct." Yes, it is! And the way gender is socially constructed is that people of one gender are allowed and encouraged to commit violence against people of other genders.

"Saying that men are more dangerous than women is validating gender essentialism or the gender binary!" No. Men teaching other men that the way to prove their manhood is by physically and/or sexually overpowering women, children, queer people, people outside the gender binary, other non-men, and gender-non-conforming men are attempting to reinforce gender essentialism and the gender binary. Women and non-men and GNC men who point this out are not the problem.

"But how is feminists saying that men are statistically dangerous different from bigots saying that [minority group] is statistically dangerous?" Sigh. Okay. It's not just that the power differential is different. It's not just that the statistical accuracy of the claim is different. It is, more importantly, more fundamentally, that the solution being proposed is different.

When bigots say "Well, [oppressed group] might be DANGEROUS, look at these (doctored, decontextualized) crime statistics!" they are using that claim to advocate denying people's basic human rights. The conclusion (stated or unstated) is "...and that's why we should leave refugees to die" or "...and that's why police brutality against people of color is okay" or "...and that's why trans people shouldn't be allowed to use the bathroom" or "...and that's why neurodivergent people should be forcibly drugged."

If the question were "Should men be banned from walking in the woods because they're dangerous?" or "Should women call the police on men walking in the woods?" or "Should all men everywhere be locked up?" ...Then "Not all men" or "Most men aren't violent" or "Women can be violent too" would be relevant responses. But those aren't the questions -- those aren't the proposed solutions -- so those responses aren't relevant.

"What about oppressed men?" isn't relevant not only because oppressed men aren't oppressed for being men, but also because no one is advocating oppressing men for being men. The man is not being in any way, even hypothetically, harmed in this scenario.

The solution being proposed isn't even "Women should avoid strange men in the woods" -- the point is that most women already do avoid strange men in the woods.

The solution being proposed is "Men should stop culturally normalizing physical and sexual violence as part of masculinity."

We don't need to add additional nuance to that, because "Not all men are violent" and "Some women are violent" and "Gender is a false binary" are all true, but are irrelevant to the solution being proposed.

"Gender shouldn't matter." I agree! Gender shouldn't matter! I would love to live in a world where gender doesn't matter! I would love to live in a world where I could run into a stranger in the woods without even thinking about what gender they are!

But in order to get to that world, men -- not "people," not "all of us," but specifically MEN -- have to stop basing their identity on physical and sexual violence against other people (especially non-men).

[lonelyvermonster]