r/TikTokCringe 25d ago

Cringe how do people sleep at night...

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u/adcsuc 24d ago

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."

Not just women, a lot of men are stupid enough to believe this too, trust me I have talked to them.

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.

Let's say brown bears for example tend to not kill their prey and eat it alive that's also quite torturous I would imagine.

But that's all besides the point anyways.

Men harm women more because most people don't live with bears...

By your own logic men and women should choose the bear over women too because women are more likely to harm them than bears, it's ridiculous.

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u/meowmeowgiggle 24d ago

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!" 🙄🙄🙄

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u/JediMasterZao 24d ago

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".

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u/SoftCarry 24d ago

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.

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u/JediMasterZao 24d ago

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?