Velma

You’re ignoring the subtly to these stories - in a lot of cases, these women’s male partners were more experienced, were carrying more supplies, or were otherwise more prepared for going into the wilderness. So there’s an additional layer of danger when these men decide for whatever reason to leave behind their less experienced partner.

A shop is not the same as a hike in the wilderness. People do have different levels of experience and preparedness.

Reading the article would have shone a light on this for you.

Women used to kill their husbands via poisoning a lot. I’m not sure that’s the example you want to use lol

Just because you hadn’t heard the term before now doesn’t mean no one heard of it.

I recognize your username now that I’ve been on lemmy for a minute and I always appreciate your contributions here <3

This place has a misogyny problem and looks no different than 4chan or early days of Reddit.

Nah I can just see your goal post shifting through the conversation.

Men sometimes choose to abuse their partners in this particular way. It’s called alpine divorce. This article simply goes through some stories of this happening and getting opinions from experts in the field. It’s just a discussion piece that you’ve decided to take offense at how the title was written.

Also the term was coined in the 1800s. Clearly it has happened enough to warrant a name if it’s been around that long.

Because you shifted your focus to the title after you realized I wasn’t backing down in our back and forth conversation.

Initially you never mentioned the title of the article at all.

It could have bolstered your argument if you had actually read the article before spouting off.

At the end of the day, it’s just women noting to others another way men can choose to abuse. It’s just another way for women to keep each other safe by sharing our stories.

You should really read the article before you get all upset about how sexist it is.

You have no room to speak with the amount of terrible views about women you share on the daily.

Like telling their partners when they have a new sex partner.

God forbid shitty men are told to be less shitty.

You should really read the article.

TikTokers talking about alpine divorce might not know that the phrase comes from an 1893 short story by the Scottish Canadian writer Robert Barr about an unhappily married couple who spends a weekend away in the Alps. The husband had planned to push his wife off the summit during a hike, but in an O Henry-esque twist, the wife tells him she has framed him for murder before jumping off the ledge herself, right before the police she called show

That said, many alpine divorces do not happen because a man has ill intentions. Maybe, like the Austrian hiker claimed, he thought he was doing the right thing. Maybe he was impatient, or had a woefully uncritical view of the Hemingway-esque macho man archetype that he wanted to embody in nature. Or maybe he had a radically different goal for the hike than his partner, and they failed to touch base beforehand.

You’re ignoring the recent criminal case that brings this up as a topic of conversation which is a very real thing that did happen.

The gender breakdown of avid hikers results in more men than women hiking. About 55-57% of hikers are men.

I’m really not trying to like argue with you or anything, I just think you’re misreading what they meant. There are more men that hike than women statistically.

You’re overlooking that men tend to be attracted to this sort of activity more and may have greater experience.

They didn’t suggest men are innately better hikers. They literally said men are attracted to this hobby in larger numbers and tend to have more experience doing it.

Men historically outnumber women hikers, but the split is relatively close. Like 55-57% of hikers are men with women and non-binary making up the rest.