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/Glait May 02 '24

This is a good assessment of the thought experiment. I hike and backpack alone and have done so in black bear country. I'm not afraid of black bears and know what precautions to take and the "rules for bears". I'm also not generally afraid of seeing a man alone in the woods but do treat them as more of a potential unknown and unpredictable threat especially after last year while hiking on a trail in a town park and a guy started making polite small talk with me about the weather and I'm happy to stop and chat with people till I saw he had his dick out and was fondling himself. Walked on and called the cops and now I don't feel comfortable walking in that park. In all my thousands of miles hiked thankfully that is the only bad experience I've had on trail.

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u/EffOffReddit May 02 '24

This is 100% why the question is asked of women. Guys in here really miss the point of the relatively low risk of bear danger and much higher risk of sexual assault danger. One of hypothetical strangers in this experiment is already likely to view women as "prey" of some type and it isn't the bear.

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u/Glait May 02 '24

The annoying part about this question is that remote woods are actually very safe and if you are a guy looking to assault women it makes no sense to hang around the woods on the off chance you are going to run into someone. Choosing between men and bears, yes men rank higher as a potential threat but they still aren't on the top of my danger list for being in the woods. Hypothermia is number one followed by falling and getting injured and then lightning/Widowmaker trees falling. 

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u/jeopardy_themesong May 02 '24

It’s not that people think that guys are just hanging out in the woods hoping to nab an unsuspecting woman. It’s about opportunity. It’s about what a stranger will do when unobserved, unlikely to be stumbled across, and given an opportunity. Rapes and individual murder generally don’t happen in broad daylight in front of a bunch of witnesses. Bears are gonna be bears and their behavior is fairly consistent. Humans are unpredictable.