is the man or bear thing rhetorically or optically the perfect feminist meme that is beyond criticism? no.
but is it leaps and bounds better at getting men to understand the material consequences of patriarchy on the physical and emotional health of women than that stupid “kill all men” meme from last decade? definitely.
This is where you should probably pause and listen to the reasoning they are giving. Here is one:
I understand. The way I’m seeing it is, even if it’s a 50/50 chance, she may be able to fend for herself… a bear? What? 90% chance (bears normally try to stay away from humans until you enter their territory) and she’s definitely not just going to die, but she’s going to be ripped to shreds, not to mention the type of damage a bear’s jaw can do. Easily crush bones.
I mean I get it, in uncivilized civilizations, there’s going to be some really chitty people, and chitty men are far more dangerous. So women are going to fear men in general.
Rape culture means that women who survive SA often have to go through a hellish psychosocial process wherein they must convince cops, judges, juries, friends and family that they were not “asking for it.”
This is not me talking, this is something that has been expressed to me by multiple individuals. That they would rather undergo horrific mutilation by an animal than deal with that process.
I encourage you not to laugh, but to actually self-interrogate what this means. Because so far you have only expressed that you do not, in fact, understand.
You haven’t gotten the idea behind all this, like not at all. You seem to be a good person though so please continue figure things out, we all are.