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Tap for contextSome 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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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I get the sentiment, but realistically I'll still pick the random man. A man could kill or rape me. A bear is likely to kill me.

[–] Skkorm@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Actually a bear is very unlikely to come after you. I come from an extremely rural part of Alberta, Canada, and large bears would sometimes wander in and near town. They wouldn't run around swiping people up and murdering them, they would just basically wander around eating garbage and looking for food. The reality is that if you were in the woods with a random bear, unless it was starving or you were near its Cubs, it likely wouldn't see you as important.

I'll tell you what though. The bodies of indigenous women would get found in the woods sometimes. Bears didn't put them there, men did.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 6 months ago (5 children)

As my wife put it, if the bear kill me, nobody would ask how I was dressed.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if I get attacked by a bear the police won't blame, interrogate, and shame me. I won't be looked down on as broken or used.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point, but I value my life more than my postmortem dignity.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I saw a bear in Canada, it just ran off.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I saw a man there once. Same thing happened.

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