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As a transfem I am always looking for the bear :3
(NV reference)
I’m absolutely flabbergasted that anyone walks anywhere without constantly scanning around them. How do people have the attention span to just look at where they are going and only where they are going?? And that is just the first hurdle I have…
I went to Japan with 3 friends, all of us male. The itinerary was public and shared, we made discussions on where we were going each day. In train stations and cities all 3 of them asked me how was it that I didnt need to pause and could just keep walking to our next location. I pointed out the signs with perfectly legible english/romanji. The signage in Japan is great.
I get compliments on my perception, and refer to it as a minor super power of mine, but I think it’s because I’m just constantly looking around.
/signed by someone who is also flabberghasted
No source, no sample size, just content to make people angry.
I put the source in the comments: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/study-visually-captures-hard-truth-walking-home-at-night-is-not-the-same-for-women
Is there anything about us that does not suck? I want to go a day without thinking the world would be better if we all died.
Leaves me wondering if this indicates some kind of biochemical/neurological difference, or just like sociological differences. Like are women processing vision differently from men, or is this happening just because women are more worried about getting attacked.
Would need to compare it to the same data sampled from different places.
Women tend to also process visuals differently. I do think I’ve seen data that show men’s eyes tend to be more sensitive to movement while women tend to have better color recognition on average. Movement is often also detectable in the periphery.
So when women look at dark areas they may see more things there in color, this may create a sort of feedback loop for night time visual behavior in addition to obvious sociological concerns.
The way to test for a visual feedback loop would probably be to evaluate night time driving (or other safer conditions) differences to see if women tend to look more at low light areas.
Alternately you could put men and women out in the woods and see if their behavior aligns.
is this happening just because women are more worried about getting attacked.
Uh… It’s complicated, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_fear_of_crime
Long story short, the less likely the crime, the more women are afraid of it happening to them.
(And yes, this sentence is very slightly cherry picking data to provoke people to read the wikipedia page).
What is a BYU study ? DDG returns a mormon thing
BYU = Brigham Young University. Famously mormon.
Doomguy is a woman, confirmed.
This is what peripheral vision is for.
Yeah, peripheral is better to detect subtle movement in low contrast areas.
Is this Loss?
I aggressively look every direction. Mine is 360
what is this from it looks amazing
It’s that scene in Pinocchio when he’s busting out of that whale using the lazer vision his godmother gave to him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion%3A_1.0_You_Are_(Not)_Alone - the Ramiel encounter, specifically.
thank you so much I appreciate you sharing that information
New proof that I am indeed a woman just dropped 💅🏻
Take that transphobes !
Guess I’m a woman now. Thanks PTSD. Didn’t even get the boobs.
I’m in the same boat. My wife is oblivious most of the time while my head is on a swivel.
They used to call him the Owl in highschool, not because of his rotating head but because of the inappropriate hooting noises he made whenever his future wife walked into the room.
Noted. Attack men from the side, women from the front 😎
Wouldn’t work, men don’t just star blankly ahead, we scan the periphery without moving our eyes. We don’t need to scan all around because our periphery is really good at spotting movement, this is why we can’t see that thing in the fridge despite being right in front of us, it’s not moving.
But attacking women from the front would work??
You joke, but when I worked in a grocery store people would ask for help finding something and nine times out of ten it was literally right in front of their face.
Did they ask you for the most beautiful person on the store?
Doesn’t the Jurassic Park power-restore scene align with this, too? Muldoon gets wrecked by a raptor on his side, while Ellie immediately notices/dodges the one that pokes through the wiring.
Aware people look about. Unaware people don’t. But yeah, let’s divide it by gender.
I mean, there are plenty of studies and experiences that genuinely show women have not just a greater concern for their safety, especially at night, but are far more likely to be assaulted than men.
The only violent crimes that women are more likely to be victims of are sexual ones. Any nonsexual violent crime is more likely to have a male victim. Is this because women are more cautious? Maybe!
We just had somebody else in the thread show studies for how men are mugged more frequently than women. However I wouldn’t be surprised if women are threatened cat called and assaulted more often, and are looking out for more than just violent criminals.
Men have better peripheral vision.
