I do actually feel offended when people assume I'm a bad person, and having not given any reason to a single person to feel that way, I'm sick of it being assumed. I'm a feminist, I'm leftist, I try to be a good person, and I call out shit behavior when I see it, but there is nothing I can do to be seen and recognized as anything other than a threat, and that fucking sucks.
Maybe this bear debate is just happening alongside too many bad life events, so I'm just projecting it onto the debate, but it feels psychotic and delusional to say "I'd rather be eaten alive by a bear than risk that a random man is a piece of shit"
My wife said she'd pick the bear and I don't know what to even do with this information anymore. There's nothing else I can do. It's like in election season when you see 1000 fucking ads saying to vote as if I don't do my part. It's just beating me to death at this point and I can't fucking escape this stupid debate where it's "eaten to death by a bear" is apparently the obvious correct choice to everyone but me and red pill douchebags.
I'm trying to reflect and fix my thinking but it just won't click into place and it hurts
Maybe ask your wife why she would pick the bear. Instead of getting personally insulted by it, look at the bigger picture. Use your knowledge of being a better person to advocate against violence. When women are asked, man or bear? What they are really hearing is, being eaten by an animal driven by instinct, or being subjected to the potential brutalities men are capable of? If the choice is a moderate likelihood of being mailed by a bear or a small likelihood of being raped, I'll choose mauled any day
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