Yep. When will people understand that the only way to a good and just society is to treat half the human population as inherently monstrous from birth? They should just resign themselves to a lifetime of abuse and isolation due to their physical characteristics. Anything else is misogyny.

I promise if you just talk to girls you will meet one who likes you. It doesn't even matter what you're into, there's someone for everyone out there.

This isn't about me, it's about a shitty, abusive message being repeated constantly on social media. Thanks for pulling an imaginary biography for me out of your ass, though. Really helpful.

I'm a man. I like being a man. I like the other men in my life. I'm not being sexist, and neither is this comic.
You claim I have a negative attitude attached to a gender... I've only criticized rapists. Is hating rapists equivalent to hating men? I've been very clear in my beliefs and why I hold them, and all you've done is some racial what-aboutism.
Seriously man, have a think about this one. We're on the same side - the difference being when I see stuff hating on men, I blame the men that give us a bad name, not the women that have chosen to be cautious around men for their own safety. If I ever encountered a woman scared by my presence, I wouldn't get upset and think "wow what a bitch she hates men just for being men". I would become saddened that the world we live in puts women in a position that they fear men.

contributing factors like socioeconomic status or substance issues

It's because of these factors that there is nuance with these kinds of jokes.

Bears are predictable, they will probably run from you or maul you. They don’t kill for pleasure, they don’t keep you alive for a game, they don’t torture you.

The point is a women doesn’t know you, or what your capable of. They do know what bears are capable of.

Women are painfully aware it’s “not all men”. But women also can’t read minds and don’t know your intentions. Can you really blame someone for erring on the side of caution?

Choosing the bear over a stranger isn’t prejudice, it’s avoiding the fear of the unknown.

"Better a xenomorph than a human male!"

Game over, man! Or maybe...

Single X in my area.
Uses the plural form.

Well, which is it?!??

when we talk about men being dangerous, it’s not in a "LITERALLY ALL MEN ARE EVIL RAPISTS" way.

it’s in a "treat every gun as if it were loaded" way.

Yep, that's just how it is these days. Let me ask though, does it really matter?

If the girls are afraid of the guys, that's their problem, not yours. Stick the time into something else you enjoy, let nature run it's course. Find a job you don't hate, spend your money as you like, live a happy life without the anxiety of rejection.

Took me longer than I'd care to admit.

The reason these conversations are so unproductive is because some people take the wildest read of these jokes ("all men are rapists") and get offended by them, when the surface reading ("men like the idea of meeting a random woman, women do not like the idea of meeting a random man") is crystal clear and non-controversial. This joke could be from a Seinfeld opening monologue, it's such a generic piece of observational comedy.

You very clearly see something about yourself in this message. Especially since you're being so reactionary about it. The fact that you're so upset about how certain women view men is your own problem. Not theirs.

Literally. It's the bear thing all over again. If you're offended by stuff like this, you're basically telling on yourself.

I sense the argument coming, so I want to put something out there.

Let's think about this using the game Among Us for a moment, hm? Forget about the gender war for a second, just think about Among Us.

In Among Us, there are, let's say, ten people trapped on a space station, but one or two of them are actually aliens pretending to be human. Their job, naturally, is to eat the other humans, in addition to creating enough plausible deniability that they won't be caught.

Now, some common arguments.

"Not all colorful little human beans are aliens trying to eat you."
Well, we know that some of them are, and they really don't want to be noticed. So, how do you avoid being eaten, then? That's right, a little bit of paranoia. In this environment, a lack of trust becomes a survival skill by necessity.

"The 'alien' problem is overblown. In fact, I think they barely exist."
Well, we know, in this video game, that they do exist. The tic-tac people are not going to survive the game by pretending the aliens aren't there. In fact, by refusing to accuse any of your friends, you are enabling the aliens to eat more of your people without consequence.

"I agree that aliens are a problem, but why does it have to include me? I'm not one of them."
Well, in Among Us, it is not possible to know who is or is not an alien on sight alone. You are forced to, by the game itself, demonstrate to other players that you are safe even in cases where you were never dangerous to begin with. Some kind of social etiquette is necessary when our other senses, our eyes for instance, cannot help us.

"Thinking all your friends are aliens trying to eat you is prejudice. It's kind of like being racist to black people."
Well, unfortunately, in this video game, we know with certainty there are secret aliens trying to eat people. As with the point above, we're not going to solve this problem by pretending they don't exist. Is it a little bit unfair that other players are forced to distrust you? Maybe. But, you just can't build trust on this space station without somehow pacifying the alien threat that is built into the game. Every player understands this dynamic.

In real life, let's imagine we have no idea whatsoever how often male aggression presents itself. We don't know if there are or are not aliens.

We can agree, I would hope, that being an alien would be a bad thing, though, right? So, is it not enough to say "I will not be one of those men, and I will stop other people from being one of those men," whether or not those men actually exist? At worst, you've committed to a fight that will never ask you to do any fighting.

You do not have to buy into the idea that most men are monsters to be an enemy of monstrous men. You do not need to concede that you are a monster to be an enemy of monstrous men.

If you insist on fighting about this, I have one or two ideas about that.

You don't believe that monstrous men exist at all, so the paranoia is unjustified. Okay. I think that you're in denial. Talk to some of the women in your life. Ask them about what they've dealt with.

You feel insecure and lonely because people naturally distrust you. I get that. That's hard. Especially in a world where you can barely make friends without a car or money, that's really tough. To a point I've made twice, though, if monstrous men are real, if they really exist, then this unfairness you're subject to will not go away unless the thing that's causing it is dealt with. This is a non-negotiable bit of math that you need to come to terms with.

People don't like being generalized, especially based on something they didn't choose.

Obviously you have a whole imaginary version of me in your head that you can carry on an argument with, so there's no reason for me to waste any more of my time.

does it really matter?

Does a dysfunctional society matter?

Well women don't choose to get raped!