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Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Yes, it is ethically wrong to leave anyone behind in the wilderness.
What has surfaced in the news more often recently is men doing this to women. Was that not clear from the article?
There was actually a case in Brazil recently where a girl left her male friend alone during a hike, and the guy got lost and stayed 5 days surviving alone in the jungle near the mountain until he was eventually found alive. Almost no news outlet mentions that he was abandoned, but there is a video from the girl who was supposed to be with him saying that she left him behind and out of her sight. No news outlet blamed the woman like they would if the gender roles had been reversed.
There was one story from the Alps. That's it. It looks like someone saw this story and tried to create a new phenomenon looking for stories that will fit the narrative. All assuming that when two adults go into mountains women are universally the ones that can't take care of themselves and need help and it's men's responsibility to provide this help. It's sexist.
I’ve actually been left alone on a trip before. I was the less experienced one, but I managed. Not trying to play the victim just saying it happens. I'm used to being left behind it's so ordinary I wouldn't call the news, (because when women do this to men it would never reach the news, and whyd I'd need this attention anyways)
Yeah, you're right. I'm always complaining to my Bros how I'm sick of getting left in the woods by women. /s
Come on, why bother with the lie? Why not just paste a nice link to some stats? Get out of here, man.
Everyone I don't agree with is lying
No one throwing a fit about this article has actually read the article
Yeah, I started reading the other responses.... Big oof.
if you do wilderness first aid training, they do in fact tell you to leave people behind, especially in circumstances where it would get them aid faster or in which you staying would further hasten their demise.
but that has no bearing on this story.
Popularity in the news doesn't equate to reality, any more than everyone saying "5 emails" makes it correct to do so. It just means it's popular in the news because it sells more ad time.
That's probably true.
But it makes it weird when a story about women being effectively abandoned in the wilderness elicits responses from (I'm guessing) men who feel targeted without any connection to these events.
It's bait.
It's a story designed to maximize rage engagement... and create gender war rage. and it is incredibly successful. look at the comments in this thread and how many of them are people flaming about how men are evil.
and now dumb people will read this and think there is some CRISIS of all men abandoning women malaciously and broadcast it all over social media or add 'their stories' to try and capitalize on the trendiness of it.
and around it goes, until next week everyone forgets about it and moves on to the next rage-bait story.
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.
How did they establish it's not also happening at the same rates in other-gendered situations? Seems anecdotal and contrived.
Sounds a lot like whataboutism.
This the same reaction as "men also are abused!", which is obviously true, hut at much, much lower rates than women.
There is no requirement to establish a pattern of women abandoning men for this article, because it's not about that.
i take it you've manned and run the domestic crisis phone lines and seen this firsthand like i have because my experience is that women get much much more help (because help exists for women, it does not for men). men just report their first experiences, move on without getting the assistance that does not exist for abused men and then do not report any more abuse they suffer.
You want to know the fun thing about your fucking dipshitted lie? If you are a man and you call a domestic crisis phone line, they will still give you resources. Resources for abused men, be they straight, queer, cis, or trans, DOES EXIST. In bigger areas, they will attempt to direct you towards more specific help since there might be groups better geared towards your specific situation, but, like the fact you think that a women's crisis resource would abandon men in need because they are men is such a fucking sexist lie. They might not be able to offer the same level of help, true. But they are there to help people in domestic abuse situations. Go fuck yourself.
So an article about women being abandoned in the wilderness should somehow evoke the plight of men's lack of support... What's the connection between these two?
men report abuse less than women because the support structures are not there for them. it's like autism and left-handedness. it does not go away simply because you are not looking for it.
Again, I'll ask wtf that has to do with the article.
here, i emphasized your own words for you so you couldn't miss them this time.
It's not whataboutism, even if it sounds like it.
Primus "I want chicken"
Secundus "What about salmon?"
Primus "Whataboutism! Your claim is invalid you have lost the debate."
Pro tip: We're not locked into one topic. We're allowed to make comparisons, we all do it every day.
Yes, I know you will now say I a gaslighting. You win