No, I don't think so. It's not a first story in the news and not first comments on lemmy trying to say that women in the mountains depend on men for survival. This is months old trend so I don't think my reaction is 'knee-jerk'. I also don't feel personally affected by it in any way so I don't think I'm being emotional. I simply don't think that when a man and a woman go into the mountains together man becomes automatically responsible for the woman. And I don't think reading the rest of the article will change my mind about it. I think when a woman decides to go hiking with someone it's also her responsibility to make sure it's safe. When I go hiking with my girlfriend she often puts limits on when and where can we go. She would not go with me on a multi day hike because she knows it's beyond her capabilities. I wouldn't be able to convince her to do it because she's a grown adult and she makes her own decisions. Maybe there are some crazy situations where psychopaths manipulate women to put them in dangerous situation and abandon them but I'm yet to find a reliable report about it. Even the stories in the article are all nonsense (yes, I read it at your insistence and it's just more sexist BS). A women left on a trail by her male AND female friends continues hiking alone on a loop train instead of turning around. A women left by a partner is rescued by a '“very nice man from Norway” who carried her backpack'. Because her backup was to heavy? Did she expect that her partner will carry it for her? A women with vertigo left by a partner that left to retrieve a camera (doesn't say if he was coming back for her or not). And a women that got lost in a forest but made it home after all. The article says that "They may not have been carrying the right supplies or enough water, or were not familiar with the terrain, making them feel vulnerable" but doesn't provide any examples of that. It's all just "women can't be left alone in the mountains because it's too dangerous for them".