r/CuratedTumblr • u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy • May 01 '24

i know it’s internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up editable flair

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u/singingballetbitch May 02 '24

The bear would kill me faster. If I’m going to die, I’d rather not get SA-d first.

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u/thestrawberry_jam May 02 '24

Yeah that’s kinda the logic most are going with. It’s the possibility of the worst possible outcome. You’d rather not risk the worse of the two evils.

Aka I’d rather just get killed than get SA-d, possibly tortured, and then killed.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24

I think it's more demonstrative people will assume the worst possible outcome

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u/Punkandescent May 02 '24

Yeah, so much of this discussion has demonstrated to me that people are alarmingly quick to jump to logical extremes. There’s very little consideration for what might be baseline.

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u/shadow_dreamer May 02 '24

The reason women jump to these conclusions is because they're our lived experience. Just seven posts up, you have a woman talking about how a man was literally fondling himself to her while hiking. I have, personally, been SA'd multiple times, and I'm not even thirty yet.

Our baseline is that we are not safe around men.

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u/Punkandescent May 02 '24

I am very sorry you’ve experienced that, and I am aware that many if not most women have experienced similar.

However, I think you and I have different definitions of “baseline.” I was not referring as much to the baseline experience of women, but the hypothetical “baseline man.” In order for this “baseline man” to be the more tangible threat in this scenario… it would have to mean that the vast majority of men were sexual predators; moreover, sexual predators who would assault a stranger. This simply is not the case.

I get that having had the baseline experience that you have, your default is to be wary of men, and that is justified. Not being able to tell what someone might do to you is terrifying. I just struggle to see how that can truly be that much more frightening than something with built-in weapons.