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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

  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      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