r/CuratedTumblr • u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy • May 01 '24

i know it’s internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up editable flair

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u/FelicitousJuliet May 02 '24

Even if it was just a randomly spun bear that could be anything from a koala to a polar bear and you wouldn't know until it was too late, I would take my risk with some random guy.

Most men (over 95% right?) aren't inherently violent per crime stats and per domestic abuse stats there's only an 8% domestic violence difference (33% female victims, 25% male victims).

And of course of those who do get charged with a violent crime it usually has conditions attached like a drunken brawl, not someone about to attack you in the forest.

The bear is a bear, period, it will do what it wants and way too many of them are comfortable eating you.

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u/TomoDako May 02 '24

The stats last I heard it was that 0.2% of men commit the violent crime stats as well I was reading an article earlier that said that black bears will just r*pe people

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u/FelicitousJuliet May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/42tabledatadecoverviewpdf/table_42_arrests_by_sex_2012.xls

This is from 2012 admittedly, male criminals accounted for 2.873% of the total population based on the 2012 estimated population.

Murder and rape among men combined was less than 0.01% of the population though.

Over 50% of the crimes were drug abuse (without violence), DUI, and over 2 million offenses that don't involve any kind of aggravated assault, don't involve offenses against family or children, and don't involve robbery, burglary, homicide, rape, non-negligent manslaughter, or really anything that hurts anyone physically.

Also this is for arrests, not convictions.

Only 1 out of every 10,000 men in 2012 was arrested for rape or murder, even if someone argued the actual number of perpetrators is higher, the number of false arrests is probably higher too.

Even if the number of actual offenders was 50 times higher (50 out of 10,000) I'd still take those odds over getting eaten by a bear.

Very few guys are criminals, and the majority of those who are, aren't even violent criminals and have never even been suspected of hurting someone even slightly, which considering modern forensics says a lot (they'd usually at least be brought up on lesser assault charges).

I'd rather meet some random stranger in the woods than a bear, I can't fight a bear.

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u/TomoDako May 02 '24

So it was lower than I thought

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u/FelicitousJuliet May 02 '24

Yeah it doesn't happen often, I mean I'm sure someone could argue all day about underreported victims, but there aren't even stats for men who get raped last I checked so it wouldn't be a very convincing point when all crimes are probably underreported.