Post #2001597
2026-04-26 20:25 UTC
Replies (7)
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@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 20:44
I think the sentiment kicking off the husband explaining should have been "men are dangerous." Then the shark metaphor makes sense, because enough men are dangerous and a low-probability but nonzero outcome for choosing incorrectly is so severe (rape, death, kidnapping) that it makes sense to have a prejudicial heuristic to treat them all as dangerous until reasonably proven otherwise. "All men are dangerous" is an absolute statement and just poor semantic logic, so yeah, this is confusing.
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@snooggums@piefed.world 2026-04-26 20:35
Men bad!
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@Zorque@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 21:19
Racial profiling, but instead it's about gender expression. Really, the critique is/should be about how there isn't enough societal pressure saying "Don't be a fucking rapist" to men in general. Unfortunately that's hard to change, it takes time and energy and there's a significant amount of pushback. So it's easier to be cautious with how you interact with strange (and rationally, familiar) men. There is a statistically significant non-zero chance they will seek to do women harm. So stating "Men are dangerous", while not especially helpful in combating that very idea, is technically true.
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@athatet@lemmy.zip 2026-04-26 20:52
Wait, like, none at all? You aren’t even able to infer anything from like, context or something?
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@Forester@pawb.social 2026-04-26 20:36
That all men are inherently dangerous. Apparently we are sharks. I thought it was bears last time...
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@zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-26 20:41
That's a problem
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@Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 20:38
Her husband's a pussy.