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You’re telling me that something that was intentionally supposed to induce division between normal ass people is inducing division between people?
Oh no!
Anyway, moral of the story, don’t get caught up in silly ass things like this. It was created to do exactly what it is doing.
pretty much exactly this. There is no way that statement wasn't designed intentionally this way.
I mean why else would it work so fucking aggressively?
Hmm could lots of men here be too self-centered and have fragile masculinity? No, must be a psyop!
Lol
it's not a psyop?
It's the same as literally any viral statement ever.
There have been plenty of (subtly) misogynistic comments on Lemmy long before the bear thing
The point that I’m making though, is that there will ALWAYS be bad actors. There will ALWAYS be a group of people who are just hateful, and will do or say anything to upset others, because they have nothing in their life that gives them actual happiness.
So, to me, this whole man vs bear thing is just incredibly stupid, and I am shocked so many people would get so upset about it, from either side!
It truly worked, and that’s more sad than anything else here.
The bear thing is misandry because it groups all man as bad.