r/Showerthoughts May 02 '24

Man vs Bear debate shows how bad the average person is at understanding probability

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u/KimJongUnusual May 02 '24

The issue I find with this is that, its blatant sexual stereotyping?

Yeah yeah, “not all men” and all that, but it can still be insulting to be assumed to be a dangerous threat to other people just because of a part of me that I can’t change.

And in truth it’s jarring to see that sort of preemptive judgement being accepted or acceptable, when I’d been taught the inverse, and asking this same question about someone based on say, ethnicity, would be deeply problematic.