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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Every interaction between a man and a woman that I personally experience involves the same man, me. Therefore no matter what my sample size, the sampling bias will only observe what is true of this one specific man.

On the flip side, every man-woman interaction that a woman experiences is with the same woman.

As a result, I'll have a lot of experience interacting with many women, and women will have a lot of experiences interacting with many men. When women protect themselves from certain traits of other men, even when those traits are not true of myself (the only man I've directly observed in these 1-on-1 interactions), they're inherently building on those worst-case scenarios. I'm not too worried about it, like when my neighbors lock their doors (despite me not being a burglar).

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

I'm not too worried about it, like when my neighbors lock their doors (despite me not being a burglar).

That's a really good way to put it, and I'm going to steal it. If you lock your door to keep other people out of your house, I'm not going to get offended just because I'm other people, because I know that I'm not the other people you're talking about

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 10 hours ago

More people need to read this.

Lotta people misinterpreting this as an all-men statement, not seeing how Character A generalizes women's behavior in the first panel.

Almost like it's saying "people who think all women are dishonest might be dishonest, themselves."

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Excuse me sir but what is this level-headed nonsense in my ragebait shitty comic thread

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I have yet to be rejected, and yet, I don't see why I should expose myself like that to a woman, when I get to see how miserably this species has failed.

Did you see Gaza? The rat race? How business almost always takes precedence over anything else?

One of the evilest countries in the world are building war robots and AI, and they want to put the rest of the world under the foot. They want to build the torture nexus, that's the real purpose of AI.

I fear and loathe humans.