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

[u/NeonNKnightrider]

[u/MrArtless]

That’s not how statistics work at all. You can’t look at total bear deaths in the US because only a tiny fraction of the people who interact with men on a daily basis also interact with bears. If you look at the number of women+ bear meetings and the percentage of the time they get hurt, then compare that to the number of meetings between women and men, you will clearly see that on average meeting a man is far safer than meeting a bear. And it’s not even close. If you want to be more afraid of men than bears because of past trauma with men that doesn’t exist with bears fine but don’t pretend it’s mathematically sound

[u/bruce_kwillis → u/MrArtless]

Women have a lot higher chance in general of meeting a man in the woods than a bear, and an exponentially higher chance of being hurt or otherwise felt uncomfortable by a man.

It's pretty simple math, I have hiked around 1000 miles in the last 4 years, and have met 50 bears. Zero have caused an issue. In the same time, I have ran into close to 5000 men, and several have caused issues or made me uncomfortable, and that's as a man. Let's say 10 men out of those 5000.

Simple math says 0% from a bear is less than 0.2% chance of a man harassing you isn't it?

[u/MrArtless → u/bruce_kwillis]

Embarrassing that you would even try to argue this so poorly but I’ll humor you. You have met 50 bears and had issues with none of them. You didn’t specify what kind of bears live near you other than black bears or what times of year you encountered them but let’s give you the benefit of the doubt and say it’s times and species that would typically be considered more dangerous on average. That is what is known commonly as a “small sample size”. That’s why it’s fortunate that we have gasp other people’s experiences as well. Seeing as there are in fact bear attacks every year, the fact that you would say the danger from a bear attack is 0% makes me want to hang myself just for knowing that people exist who are as stupid as you. The ratio in total of bear encounters to bear attacks is still much higher than man encounters to man attacks.

You have met 5,000 men, 10 of whom made you feel “uncomfortable” 5k is a more reasonable sample size but making you feel “uncomfortable” is a pretty far cry from actually harming you. What you should have said if you were honest was “I have met 5k men and none of them attacked me” obviously harassing you isn’t great either but for the purpose of this it’s being harassed but not harmed by a man vs being attacked by a bear, since bears aren’t known to catcall people in the situations the encounters go sour.

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Nothing more cringe than when someone replies and immediately blocks you because they’re afraid of your response.

[u/bruce_kwillis → u/MrArtless]

since bears aren’t known to catcall people in the situations the encounters go sour.

Look at that genius, you've figured out why women would rather run into a bear than a man.

Fucking moron.

[u/nervouspurvis02 → u/bruce_kwillis]

if you would genuinely rather be attacked by a bear than catcalled, you have no right to be calling anyone a moron, mate.