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Some woman on the internet said she would feel safer spending a night in the woods with a random bear rather than with a random man

  • Cowbee [he/him]
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    7 个月前

    The bear discourse is the true measure of whether a given man is a red or green flag.

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      7 个月前

      A colored flag means a sign giving a clue on something. It doesn’t define a person, and can only be used to describe some abstract fact. You can say “getting angry when talking about the bear discourse” is a redflag, but saying “a man is a red flag” is not correct

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        7 个月前

        Yes, that’s my point. The response to the bear discourse reveals red or green flags.

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            Syntactically they should have used ‘displays’ not ‘is’ a green or red flag, but everyone divined the meaning of the damned sentence and the internet is garbage so who gives a rats