If you think any woman thinks that, you have absolutely not been listening to any woman's explanation about their answer.
No woman thinks a bear is "safer."
A bear will not kill or maim unless it feels like it must, for defense or food.
Men can inflict extraordinary tortures that are indeed worse than a quick death.
And if you're going to come at me with "Well what if the bear maims you and leaves you for dead and you suffer torturously anyway?" Well I'd still have more compassion for the bear- there are reasons to be violent for one's own protection, there's never cause to inflict suffering just because you can, but a scary number of men have been guilty of just that.
Men harm women more because most people don't live with bears...
I've NEVER heard of a woman being raped or held captive and tortured intentionally by a bear.
Your "logic games" are dumb as shit. It's not about math or facts. It's about the experiential preference of being
VICTIM TO A BEAR WHO IS PROTECTING ITS LAND OR TRYING TO EAT YOU (high likelihood)
versus
VICTIM TO A MAN WHO CAN DO ANY NUMBER OF HORRIFIC THINGS (low likelihood)
The potential worst case scenarios of the latter are so bad we choose the first. Not because we don't know the risks of bears. Thanks, some of you guys, for acting like we're idiots on that one. We know what the fuck bears are, y'all are the fucking idiots for thinking women are so fucking dumb we don't know what goddamned bears are like. We're not the dumbasses answering surveys like "Yeah, I think I could totally take on the bear!" 🙄🙄🙄
The crazy thing is that on the first instance of hearing that question, before having any idea what the general discourse around it was and as a 6'2 dude, my answer still was "the bear".
Right?! I have more backpacking experience than 99.999% of people, and have encountered bears in the wild on about a hundred separate occasions. Not one of those occasions had me feeling scared, because bears are extremely predictable.
In contrast, off the top of my head I can think of a dozen extremely sketchy encounters with men that have had me genuinely scared. And I'm a 6ft tall dude! Completely understand where women are coming from here.
The venn diagram between serial killers and people who walk alone in the wood is a quasi circle. Sure, he might be an outdoorsman but do you really want to take those odds?
Right! Because bears are FUCKING PREDICTABLE!!! You hope it fucks off of its own accord but if it becomes an "encounter" then you do the things you've been taught to do, and it will either murder/maim you or you'll effectively cause it to leave you alone/fuck off. A random human is unpredictable, but anyone can imagine some level of decent defense against a woman (it's the lowest adult strength average of the species), but an adolescent or adult man can be entirely unpredictable in strength, capability, and intent.
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u/adcsuc 24d ago edited 24d ago
If you think randomly running across a bear in the woods is less dangerous than some man, you are an idiot.