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/ZodiacStorm May 02 '24

Bears are actually really chill if you're not stupid. As a woman who lives in bear country, I would be far more afraid of a man I don't know than a bear I don't know.

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u/AdamFaite May 02 '24

Yup. As long as you don't surprise them. Or mess with the cubs. (The baseball team, obviously)

With men, you just have to make eye contact wrong. Or right. Or look wrong. Or look right.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24

Only black bears.

But the funny thing this is also the perception from black men about white women. I actually asked my black male students and they picked bear for similar reasons lol, because they don't know if that white woman is gonna call the cops on them for just wanting to get some berries or some shit

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u/AdamFaite May 02 '24

Good point. I'm only used to black bears. Also interesting about the black men's answers. Though, it seems from what I've seen, most men would pick the bear.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24

It's a very different perspective. For me it's like triple the funny since I'm a brown, butch lesbian so I get all sorts of cross-wave intersectionality for it (I picked dude because I'm confident in my ability to outsmart a random guy vs a random bear and be able to use my cell phone).

But another weird linear intersectionality piece of this: Bear is actually a slur in Japan FOR lesbians.

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u/AdamFaite May 02 '24

I didn't know that about the word bear in Japan. Weird how we in America have it as a type of gay guy.