I don’t know how clearly I can conditionalize something beyond saying sometimes.
Something you obviously had no issue omitting from your own statement.
Edit to the edit of my edit: the bear narrative does paint all men with a broad brush. Not that I don’t understand it. The implication that women can never be accountable for their actions is exactly how we end up with a patriarchy.
The Man or Bear scenario a. is not a narrative, it is a thought experiment and b. does not “paint all men with a broad brush”. It points out how normalised violence against women is in our society. It does not say “all men are violent against women”, that’s just what people who did not (often did not want to) understand the construct read into it.
It does not matter much how you conditionalise your statement when you use a metaphor that is about systemic issues you are implying a similar systemic issue. By choosing the bear you imply she did it because of gendered violence, not racist violence.
I don’t know how clearly I can conditionalize something beyond saying sometimes.
Something you obviously had no issue omitting from your own statement.
Edit to the edit of my edit: the bear narrative does paint all men with a broad brush. Not that I don’t understand it. The implication that women can never be accountable for their actions is exactly how we end up with a patriarchy.
Edit edit edit edit edit: https://eji.org/news/emmett-till-accuser-admits-she-lied/
Read it for yourself.
The Man or Bear scenario a. is not a narrative, it is a thought experiment and b. does not “paint all men with a broad brush”. It points out how normalised violence against women is in our society. It does not say “all men are violent against women”, that’s just what people who did not (often did not want to) understand the construct read into it.
It does not matter much how you conditionalise your statement when you use a metaphor that is about systemic issues you are implying a similar systemic issue. By choosing the bear you imply she did it because of gendered violence, not racist violence.