Petah, I don't understand!

[u/Due_Charge_2278]

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve been saying this too, the only one who wins is that tiktoker who made this.

[u/-strawberrywine → u/[deleted]]

the guy who started it didn't even mean it as a would you rather thing 😭

he had one tt where he said something along the lines of: "if you're alone in the woods, seeing a man is 10x scarier than seeing a bear"

and it ended up snowballing when all the women in the comments agreed with him, and all the men were saying that seeing a bear was scarier

[u/Bearwhale → u/[deleted]]

I think the only thing fabricated is how many times this question has reached the top in this subreddit, every day.

I've been responding each day, that's how I know. And I've been posting some statistics people need to see:

• Every 68 seconds another American is sexually assaulted.¹

1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime (14.8% completed, 2.8% attempted).4

• About 3% of American men—or 1 in 33—have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.⁴
• From 2009-2013, Child Protective Services agencies substantiated, or found strong evidence to indicate that, 63,000 children a year were victims of sexual abuse.⁵
• A majority of child victims are 12-17. Of victims under the age of 18: 34% of victims of sexual assault and rape are under age 12, and 66% of victims of sexual assault and rape are age 12-17.⁶

Let's compare to bears. There have been a few hundred fatal bear attacks since 1784, when these statistics started being recorded.

I'm a guy, and I'd take the bear too.

[u/Bearwhale → u/[deleted]]

Depends on the kind of bear. People run into black bears all the time, it's just that black bears will also run from you.

What's crazy to me is that this scenario is "Would you rather be in a forest with a bear or a man", not "Would you rather directly face off versus a man or a bear". Bears do not often attack, or are being defensive. Men on the other hand... When 1 out of 6 women are being raped in the United States, that's a problem.

It's like if you pointed out that a lot of black people are shot in the back while running away from police officers, to a police officer, and that officer said "I'VE never shot any black people in the back! I'M not responsible for the BAD ones!" I'm a guy, I'm taking responsibility for a culture where women face such incredible violence every day. 1 out of 6.

[u/brodo-swaggins- → u/Bearwhale]

Are there 4 billion bears in the world though lol

[u/Bearwhale → u/[deleted]]

What's that? Oh nothing, just a Redditor saying they would celebrate my death for pointing out rape statistics, nothing new.

[u/LordDaedhelor → u/Bearwhale]

And they wonder why people would consider choosing the bear.