Solution: Emergency pants snake

2026-07-30 18:09 UTC

Transcript: With a picture of a snake in the background, post reads: The chances of a human being bitten by a venomous snake is 1 in 70 thousand. The chances of a woman being attacked by a man is 1 in 3. And somehow, your fear of snakes is valid. But a woman’s fear of male violence is dramatic.

Replies (7)

@greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2026-07-30 19:26

I’m still terrified of snakes. The human kind and not.

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@Yeller_king@reddthat.com 2026-07-30 21:06

If we weren’t scared of snakes we’d get bitten way more often.

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@Sunspear@piefed.social 2026-07-30 21:49

Look, I’m all for this message, but these probabilities mean nothing without a reference - 1 in 3 of what? Per day for an average woman? Per year? Per encounter? Especially the per encounter would be funny, since the average person rarely sees a snake, let alone a venomous one. And I imagine women usually meet at least three men a day…

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@Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-31 00:22

Can I just be upset that the snake used in the image is not venomous?

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@kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-31 05:18

Falling appliances kill about twice as many people per year as sharks, but if you’re more afraid of a refrigerator than of a shark, a lot of people will definitely call you dramatic. Proximity is a huge factor in the likelihood of any given occurrence.

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@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2026-07-31 12:29

The fact is, the man community has done a bad job representing itself to women. They keep choosing bad men like Trump and Musk to represent their community. The man community has completely failed to police its own members. That’s why it has a bad reputation.

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@Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2026-07-31 13:01

And yet the chances of a man to be attacked by a man is higher. All fears are valid, but humans are bad at ranking them

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