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Some woman on the internet said she would feel safer spending a night in the woods with a random bear rather than with a random man

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i’m just trying to figure out why this is becoming a colloquialism, i mean we’ve had would you rather for a while. But this is a very different format from it, and it’s rather, obtuse. Is the most polite way i can think to explain it.

I hate that i enjoy sociology sometimes, this is one of those times. People suck.

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Or maybe people don’t like being roped in with terrible people based on a part of them that they have no control over? Just a thought.

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In this scenario the woman has limited information. She has no choice but to assume average chances of a man or a bear killing her, regardless of the individual.

When you’re facing down a threat in the woods, how much they enjoy being stereotyped isn’t your problem.

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If you believe you’re less likely to be in danger with a bear than a man, you’re just sexist.

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Yeah, the bear pick is the sneaky way women try to rob the average man of status by implying that we are mindless beasts willing to do the worst at the first chance we get.

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The fact that you think the point of this is your status and not someone else’s safety says so much.

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Because it is about insulting men. No one’s actually getting trapped with bears because they’re answering either way. It’s there to prove a view, would you rather be stuck with a bear or a black person? A gay person? A trans person? A jew? A Muslim?

It’s there to rile up people about their prejudices and I’m just sad we’re all getting piled on like this.

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Incel said what?

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https://youtu.be/SSVXbgR4JFs here’s my point better explained. You can reply the moment you feel like actually discussing and not dismissing me based on my gender.

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🤌🏻

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Context: Some woman on the internet said she would feel safer spending a night in the woods with a random bear rather than with a random man

Some woman

Not “some woman” — quite a few women. Lots of women.

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I’m a man and even I would pick a bear

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I too prefer chubby hairy men.

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finally, someone who gets me.

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Hi.

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Really? What people do you usually hang around with?

Bears are incredibly strong and dangerous and will kill you just for fun.

I would honestly prefer a random man to a fucking moose.

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Man is more unpredictable than bear. I know A bear can kill me, but I have no idea what a random man has in mind for me.

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The scale is shark > bear > man > moose. Don’t fuck with moose.

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Because a nice bear is going to ask for consent, and might snuggle you and…wait. What kind of bear are we talking about?

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Why do you feel the need to make this racist

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Don’t feed the troll.

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“If you change the context, the context changes”

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beardown

did… did you make this account just to insert racist bullshit into the bear meme?

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Even more surprising is that it’s a reference to a show that makes fun of racism and racist people all the time. ‘Bear down for finals’

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*then

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A bear won’t try to convince you that you weren’t really assaulted and accuse you of just wanting attention

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I’d rather do neither but at least I know all the safety guidelines for how to not get a bear to tear my ass apart

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Right, this is what folks aren’t understanding.

Yes a big ass bear is clearly more dangerous but like in reality the random man is much more variable and there are WAY more examples of what we’re capable of as opposed to what a bear does.

A bears nature is understood.

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Yes a big ass bear is clearly more dangerous

If it is a black bear, which 99 percent of the time it would be, nah, the man is more dangerous. Black bears are scaredy cats.

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Yes, the safety guidelines are not being close to a bear.

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