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Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’? (www.theguardian.com)

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MJ calls what happened to her in Zion national park “small ‘T’ trauma”. She knows women have experienced worse from their partners. But she still feels the anger of being left behind on a hike by her now ex. “It brings up stuff in my body that maybe I have not cleared out yet,” she said.

Five years ago, MJ and a new partner – he was not exactly her boyfriend, and the pair were not exclusive – traveled from Los Angeles to Utah for an adventure getaway. MJ, who is 38 and works in PR, was looking forward to exploring Zion’s striking scenery; its vast sandstone canyon and pristine wading trails were on the list. But on the morning of their big hike, MJ was not feeling well. She could not shake the feeling that something was “off”; indeed, MJ would learn on this trip that her partner was seeing other women.

As they made their way up Angel’s Landing, MJ’s partner started walking faster than her. “I could tell it was getting on his nerves that I was slow,” she said. “I was like, ‘Fuck it, just go ahead of me.’” He did without hesitation.

When she caught up at the top of the mountain, they took a picture together. Then her partner hiked down the mountain with a woman he had met on the way up, leaving MJ to finish by herself. They broke up shortly after that trip. (MJ asked to be referred to by her initials for the sake of speaking openly about a past relationship.)

Last month, MJ opened TikTok and heard the phrase “alpine divorce”, a label she now attaches to her experience in Zion.

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[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was sincerely open to a conversation with you, but I guess downvotes and scorn is all I'm going to get from you.

Thanks, I guess.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I was sincerely open to a conversation with you

No, you weren't. Your comments are dripping with condescension and sanctimony, not to mention projection (care to cite the "scorn" in anything I wrote?).

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When you reply to my comment:

Just because it’s a type of abuse that happens at lower rates than other types doesn’t mean it’s worthless to talk about. For these women, it is a very real occurrence that happened to them. Why not give them space to share their stories?

with an 'lol' and deflection, yeah, it feels scornful.

Just say you don't want to hear about women's abuse stories and be honest.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only time I wrote "lol" was when I noticed that the very first sentence of the Wikipedia entry of the term "alpine divorce" directly contradicted your assertion that it "isn't a new, trendy term". I found that funny. That had literally nothing to do with the actual subject matter of the OP, and had everything to do with discussion of the rate of incidence of a slang term in colloquial parlance.

It's literally the opposite of "deflection" to directly address what you wrote (I quoted exactly what I was responding to), and it's definitely not "scorn" to be amused by a contradiction. To even consider assigning the word "scorn" to something so trivially insignificant only bolsters your first impression of being an outrage junkie.

Just say you don’t want to hear about women’s abuse stories and be honest.

If anything in this thread actually deserves an exasperated "oh my fucking god" reaction (and/or a "lol"), it's this. Come down from your cross, drama queen.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The entire article is women sharing stories of being abused in a specific way and the men in here are clutching their pearls about having to read about it. So many “not all men” type comments.

I don’t care if you think I’m a drama queen. Women deserve to be heard.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I don't "think" you are a drama queen. It's self-evident, from what I quoted. Not a single word of anything I said could genuinely lead to the ridiculous conclusion you did, in any rational mind.

That said, it matters much more that you don't care about objectivity, accuracy, and intellectual honesty. You're unfortunately more interested in labeling merited refutations of your demonstrably-bogus assertions as misogyny (which, naturally, magically justifies dismissing them outright), than actually accepting your error and learning from it.