I understand why women pick the bear, but I also understand why men are insulted. It’s not that hard to empathetic is it? Maybe I’m wrong.

Even as a dude I’d rather pick the bear over any human. Bears are somewhat predictable humans not so much

Also they can hit me up with some coke

Yeah I probably would too. I mean, “Man is the real monster!” is an old trope for a reason.

What’s troubling is I wouldn’t necessarily feel the same about a random (unarmed) woman in the forest and I suppose that’s the root of the feels here.

That’s because even a weak man can still easily overpower a woman. A single woman is not nearly as big a threat to my physical well-being like a man would be to a woman. She would need some kind of weapon or suprise attack or some kind of thoughtful planning to get the better of me while a man can just have a change of mood and boom – woman is in trouble.

She would need some kind of weapon

Fortunately it’s not like we live in a country where there are more guns than people

Because if that was the case then it wouldn’t make sense to only fear certain people

Fortunately it’s not like we live in a country where there are more guns than people

You might, but we don’t.

American is the norm here. Not everyone is American. But most are.

Weird that you take offense to that but don’t take offense to dehumanizing 50% of humanity

Recognizing that people have different experiences than you, something to appear to struggle with, is not dehumanizing 50% of humanity.

Plenty of white Christians are afraid of black people and Muslims. Accordingly they likely would prefer to encounter a bear rather than a person who is black or Muslim

Is that acceptable? After all, those white Christians likely just “have different experiences” than you or I. We should respect that, right?