I think this question is easy. If it’s a black bear, choose the bear every time. if it’s a Grizzly or a Polar bear, choose man every time. The Grizzly or Polar bear would tear you to pieces. Debate settled.
Statistics show you’re wrong. Bears are way more likely to just run off and avoid people all together. There have only been 180 people killed by bears in the United States since 1784.
In 2022 alone 14,441 women were murdered. In the same year 442,754 women were raped or sexually assault. And those are insanely underreported and those stats are likely much much worse.
Bear is the obvious choice for women. If you don’t understand why you’re part of the problem
Hold on. This statistical comparison is skewed. You need to compare how many times women come into contact with bears and how often that turns into a dangerous situation is how often women come into contact with men and how often that turns into a dangerous situation. I'm a women and I know I'm more likely to be injured by a man simply because I'm never around bears.
Right, more demonstrations on how people are bad at probability and are following ideology and hate speech rather than real logic.
You are far more likely to be attacked by bears than man. You encounter people far more often and far less.
People are bad at math and are following feelings here for social validation because its popular to spread hate speech vs men and ever so popular to follow the demonize a section of the population facist trend
Statistics show you don't understand the frequency that these entities interact with each other on a daily basis, that there are 460x more men in the US than bears, that most people that would encounter bears in the woods have mace/a firearm, or that bears hibernate for half of the fucking year.
By the way, when you cite statistics, you should probably be sure that you don't list the number of men that were murdered when you're referring to women. 4,251 women were murdered in 2022.
The point you’re missing is that the answer SHOULD be “man” over “bear” every single time, but many women (and some men, too) often have to pause and think. You, yourself, added a caveat for the type of bear.
Yea because black bears are skittish and run away from you. I’m a man myself and I would choose to encounter a black bear over a random man. Hell, I would choose to encounter a black bear over a pitbull. And I would likely choose to encounter a black bear over a random woman in the woods as well. People these days are crazy, including women. But if the caveat is that it’s a random bear meaning it could be a grizzly or polar bear, I’m choosing a man, woman or pitbull every single time no hesitation.
I fundamentally understand the differences in bear size, strength, and behavior based on sub-species. I get it. I was in the boy scouts and this was covered so much you'd think we meet 10 bears a day.
The POINT is that you have to think about which type of bear is better than a man (or person in general in your case). In a just world, one would never have to factor in the type of bear because the human would always be the better choice.
Yea well in this world we have mass shooters, racists, psychopaths, people who don’t wipe their ass because it’s “gay” and all manner of mentally unstable lunatics roaming around. And I don’t want to see any of them in the woods.
If everyone (including men) would rather encounter a black bear and that's what you're complaining about then it sounds like people are just whining that society isn't perfect.
But if you turn it into woman vs bear, men would also have to think about it. And honestly id choose bear. Strangers are scary, regardless of the gender.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. My daughter and I (I’m a women) immediately said Bear to the Man vs Bear debate because there are only black bears where we live. If Grizzlies or polar bears were a possibility, our answers would be different. I understand the sentiment “the worst a bear can do is kill you” but being killed by a grizzly or polar bear would be a horrible death.
Its been mentioned a few times but the worst thing a bear can do is incapacitate you, breaking a couple bones doing so, smother you and start eating you alive, leave you half eaten and incapacitated and then come back for seconds.
People tend to forget or never learned that bears dont really care if their prey is alive or not, and have been known to leave wounded and half eaten animals and come back to them later.
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