All men are dangerous
2026-04-26 20:21 UTC
Replies (35)
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@twinnie@feddit.uk 2026-04-26 20:52
I hate this argument every time I see it. It could be used to justify so many terrible prejudices that we’ve been trying to get rid of for decades. I got robbed by a black man once so should I now treat all black men as potential criminals?
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@unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2026-04-26 20:59
OK. I was abused by a woman. And know of many cases of abusive women (men too, but we've already decided in this context that all men are dangerous, so that's beside the point). So this means all women are dangerous, too?
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@baines@piefed.social 2026-04-26 21:10
trash like this always ruins all nuance might as well be justifying racist stereotypes or calling women gold diggers
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@drmoose@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 04:39
I'm a feminist and I don't get this argument at all. There are plenty of dangerous women too so all women as well? It makes no sense and it's pure toxic femcel delusion. Also as an ex-professional scuba diver: the shark analogy is a great illustration how stupidly inaccurate this argument is.
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@Tattorack@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 02:06
The problem is equating males to sharks. The exact same arguments have been directed at ethnic groups in the past.
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@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2026-04-26 20:42
I used to think this way, "hey it's not all men"! That was until my wife was roofied in a bar. Luckily I was there, just in the bathroom, and when I came out the coward bolted away, but it shattered all of my illusions about my own gender. She put her drink down for less than 5 seconds, at her table, with other friends there. They were distracted for a split second while he put something in her drink. God knows what would have happened if I wasn't there. Men, we all need to understand that it may be a few bad apples, but a few bad apples spoil the bunch. Women have to keep their guard up because one slip, 10 seconds of being distracted is all it takes. Before that incident I never thought about how guarded they have to be.. all the time. It's insane. Even that instance she was with corowrkers and her fiance was there! She hadn't talked to anyone else and _still_ it happened to her! We never have to worry about things like that. Hell I'm pretty sure just this week I set my drink down and went to the bathroom, and _still_ it didn't cross my mind to check. Men bad because, yes, men are _real_ fucking bad. There's people out there who literally do try this shit, and as a woman meeting people they don't know who you are or what you'll try. It is not as simple as "Why don't the trust us"? Because some of us slip roofies into drinks, that's why. Real men will see that and vow to punch those fucking cowards in the face, watch their female friend's drinks for them, and many other things.
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@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2026-04-27 00:37
I mean maybe it's because your statement was explicitly "all men are dangerous", not "men are dangerous"
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@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-26 22:14
Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8 Edit, since the admin of a allied instance to mine seems to want to bad jacket me. Many many people have made plenty of nuanced comments laying out how, but I also had already made my own which I will paste below. I was not calling feminism bait, I was calling this particular post bait. Anyway: >The title of the post itself is "All men are dangerous". >This is some incredibly obvious rage bait of a post, meant to get people arguing past each other because some people will assume the sort of good faith discussion in the image, others won't accept ot anyway, and some will be explicitly calling out the bullshit title while others defend the argument in the image, shouting past each other about different things.
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@hark@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 04:12
Reminds me of this: >"If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?" said the tweet on the verified @DonaldTrumpJr handle. > >"That's our Syrian refugee problem," said the post, which caused a stir and negative tweets on the internet into Tuesday. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-jr-likens-syrian-refugees-poisoned-skittles Are you sure THIS is how we should think?
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@massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2026-04-26 21:18
Also sharks are awesome, they are older than trees, have important ecological roles and most sharks won't attack any humans. Some even can befriend you, like a toothy puppy. The ones that do, tend to do it for curiosity and dislike us because were boney and hurts their teef, it is not their fault that we have the bad habit of bleeding out when we're in the sea. As analogies go, this is a bad one: - You can easily learn which sharks are dangerous. - You will be warned when you go swimming in a dangerous area. - You can even take precautions that reduce substantially that danger. I don't think it is as easy understanding when someone might hurt you, and it is not like you can choose to have your date be in the water while you chat them up from a boat.
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@core@leminal.space 2026-04-26 20:34
Thats basically saying all men are rapists, you just don't know which one is going to rape you.
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@echodot@feddit.uk 2026-04-27 05:23
Ok so as a man what am I supposed to do about it? That's the part I don't understand, if women would prefer the bear over the random man (who's statistically probably fine) that's not much good for the species is it.
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@TimMadisun@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 20:42
I agree with the sentiment, yes, there are dangerous men out there. But this is a terrible analogy.
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@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 23:50
This doean't feel like a microblog meme.
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@PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2026-04-27 08:40
I just want to say, it's not just about femicide, rape and that sort of stuff. Men being dangerous is a spectrum, and those are the high points, but sexist comments, pressuring, bargaining, and much more can also be part of the spectrum.
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@Tiral@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 01:24
Just so I understand. Feminism can lump every male into a neat little box, and that's considered ok? I think there's a word for that.
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@wampus@lemmy.ca 2026-04-27 03:46
I'm ok with women expressing this sort of sentiment, so long as they're also ok with guys making generalisations about women in the same vein -- ie "There are enough of 'this type' of character out there, that you gotta be defensive and assume any could be". Saying all men are dangerous is fair, it's also fair to say all women exploit men for financial gain. I don't know many men who've dated for a while, who haven't come across women clearly just seeking free meals, gifts etc; ones who'll judge you based solely on income. That said, it's prejudice in either case to assume that an individual of either gender is either of those things just because you've acknowledged the risk is there. Like if your store is constantly robbed by one specific ethnic demographic, it's human nature to be suspicious of any member of that demographic when they come in -- but you'd cross into racism if you explicitly treated them like thieves prior to them being shown as a thief at an individual level.
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@zeppo@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 20:25
I have no idea what this even means
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@Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 20:41
What's this "grape academy"? Are they talking about the rape academy?
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@endless_nameless@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 01:48
EVERY human being is dangerous, we are essentially nature's ultimate killing machine. Name another species that can nearly kill a whole planet.
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@AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 2026-04-27 06:01
I see no comments acknowledging or even a vague awareness of what the Grape Academy is. It's important to the comment.
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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-04-27 08:12
This is just the Bayesian approach; overall men have high enough tendancy for aggression and sexual assault that from a risk analysis point it makes sense to be on your guard until you get to know that person better. Of course media has a bias for presenting the awful stuff that happens in the world, one would rarely get coverage of a heart warming relationship between two people involving atleast one man. So these priors despite being in the correct direction might be biased too. But I think, neither the shark anology or the expression "all man are dangerous" is useful for getting this point across though.
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@massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2026-04-26 21:09
People are a bunch of bastards. Embrace nature and live like a hermit.
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@snooggums@piefed.world 2026-04-26 21:33
Then the husband winked at one of the other women to make sure she understood the implied threat.
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@Nomad@infosec.pub 2026-04-27 04:54
You can't ignore the numbers. Can't justify blanket statements or judgment based on them. Sounds like a case for nuance. Maybe judge any case separately without looking for oversimplification.
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@TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 20:40
So the husband’s way of putting it was more precise while the implied blanket statement the wife made is inaccurate. Makes sense someone in the maligned group would raise a question about it.
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@SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 04:29
Rewind: I'm in my 20s, well maybe also early 30s. The girls I know all tell me I'm not fit for dating because "you're just not exciting and dangerous!" Oh, the completely unrealized irony.
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@FishFace@piefed.social 2026-04-27 08:36
Ragebait or just being a shit person? Get in the bin either way, I don't need to see more from you.
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@BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2026-04-26 20:59
"They must be marvelous olives."
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-04-27 05:44
It's bad for women but it's even worse for children. Women are at a disadvantage but can at least take some precautions, arm themselves and try to fight back. Kids are literally defenseless. Hence we should treat all adults as pedophiles just in case. We don't know which shark might bite them.
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@BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 21:07
Reading comprehension has taken a total nosedive, or men in these comments are willfully misinterpreting very clear language because they can't stand the idea of being compared to dangerous men. We know not all men are dangerous. We don't know *which* men are dangerous. And by the time we find out there isn't much we can do about it. That's the takeaway. Half the comments: BASICALLY SAYING ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS My best friend is a man. He's a wonderful person. I love all the men I've chosen to be in my life. I've identified them as safe. I, too, don't want them to be pre-categorized as potential monsters. But it doesn't matter what I want. Enough men violence or sexually harass women that the gamble is too risky. And here's the scariest part. ***Over half of homicides committed against women come from intimate partners and family members.*** Like, even when we find men we think we trust, it's still no better than a coin flip that one day they might violently hurt us, rape us, or kill us. Put your stupid pride aside for a fucking second and ***address that there is a problem when how violence against women is normalized and dismissed. Even now in this very thread.*** It doesn't mean men can't be harmed in return. I know plenty of abusive women exist out there. That does not negate a single part of this argument. It's *another* problem, and one we should *also* take seriously and address. We should ALL be on team: All Of This Sucks And We Should Do Something About It
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@WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2026-04-27 04:42
I expect people to treat me the way I treat them: I keep my distance and am horrified with everything and everyone. Unironicaly.
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@its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-27 01:13
My perfered way to explain the caution women take around me, is a hypothetical. Imagine every woman has a gun that only works for them.
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@JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 22:28
If you hand me a box of raisinettes and tell me one of them is a chocolate covered poop nugget, that whole box is going in the trash.
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@hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-04-26 20:58
Another version: A firing squad executes people. Out of 5 shooters, if only one has a real bullet and 4 have blanks, the execution still happens. The firing squad kills people, but it only takes 1 member to define the group.