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"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago

it often drives young lonely men towards the manosphere, but also men should try actually listening to why most women pick the bear.

ok, and as evidenced by the previous thread, there was a lot of nothing being explained actively happening.

Reiterating the metaphorical reasoning as to why someone would do this doesn't explain the underlying reason why people are using a metaphorical device in the first place.

don't tell people that you would rather be with a bear, tell people that you would rather be with a bear, because the entire point of the statement is that it's literally fucking insane. The problem here was the second someone goes "isn't this insane?" instead of people responding with "yes, that's the point, it's supposed to be!" people respond with "and you're part of the problem" yknow, because surely that wouldn't cause problems.

It's not that people are saying something, or aren't saying something, it's that people are trying to make a point using a metaphorical device that they never drop, it's like irony poisoning, except it's just not irony.

TL;DR It's hard to listen to someones reasoning when they never fucking explain it. Granted it did get better eventually, but jesus fucking christ did it take a while.