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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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This is so fucking sexist.
Hey everyone, women are just as capable of surviving in the mountains as men!
There's some safety and ethical rules in the mountains. You don't leave your hiking/climbing partner unless you both agree it's fine. Gender of this partner doesn't matter. Guy leaving another guy is equally bad as guy leaving a woman. Women are not inherently more prone to dying in the mountains than men. The fact that everyone treats this as someone abandoning a helpless person is infuriating. It's shitty behavior but it would be equally shitty if this guy left his male friend or if she left him. It's 2026, this is fairly progressive space and still everyone looks at with "women need protecting" mindset. It's mind boggling.
When I see women in the mountains I don't think to myself "oh my god, they are here without supervision? hope they will be fine!". Am I the only one?
It's sexist in the way that it might depict only women suffering from this type of behavior, but I think that women do tend to be the major demographic that suffers from this type of behavior, which, to me, is a type of sexism that is nowhere near as harmful as the behavior it condemns. It's not saying they can't hike.
This type of abuse can happen literally anywhere. You're out in the city and you're not walking fast enough? Get ditched with no warning. And that's the problem. There is usually some modicum of control that the people ditching (you can read this as men) have over the situation that leaves the partner in a vulnerable state. Sometimes they drove. Sometimes they know the way. Sometimes they have the experience. It's an abuse tactic to do something like that.
So, idk man, calling this sexist and then pretending there's some unrelated problem to address is a weird take.
Thank you. Weird ass take, I thought we left this shit on Reddit?
When I first moved to Lemmy from Reddit it wasn't this bad. Now it's no fucking different than when I worked in a sawmill, surrounded by shitty men.
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.
So it's not just me thank you! Shocking to see. Honestly I feel impotent towards it, idk what one can do apart from organizing, and if one is to organize, what to do?
I think we just keep existing and being firm in our points of view. Downvotes from pouty men are a badge of honor now lol
Right back atcha Velma. Always good to have comrads fighting beside you. :)