Guys… This is not a complicated discussion. I’m a trans woman. I’ve been the man. And now I’ve been the woman. I’m telling you without question I’m picking the fucking bear. Men are scary motherfuckers. A sizeable number of you are cruel, calculating, and downright uncaring. If you’re debating women about why they’d pick a potentially dangerous animal to be alone with in the woods instead of you, you have entirely missed the point.

Go talk to every woman you know in your social circles and in your family, and ask them if they have been assaulted or sexually assaulted by men. The number of them that says yes to that question is going to be depressing. Some of them might even confide in you that they’ve been raped. My own sister didn’t tell me until I asked her why she was so upset with my brother one time. Those acts, when inflicted on you, poison your default view of your fellow man. If you can’t imagine a man being more dangerous than a bear, then you’ve never had to.

i feel like the main problems guys have with this that they imagine themselves vs the bear and it hurts their ego and they try to justify themselves because no one wants to be the bad guy

I agree with you there, but I think it’s valid for guys to have emotions.

Saying “I think the average man is more likely to harm me than a bear” is very easy to misinterpret, and then further demonising those people by saying they’re the problem isn’t helping. It just leaves them more confused and isolated.

I’ve had plenty of conversations with men defending themselves, it’s easy enough to help them understand that enough men give women bad experiences that they prefer the bear. It just needs to be done calmly to avoid further getting their guard up

Saying “I think the average man is more likely to harm me than a bear” is very easy to misinterpret

What’s to misinterpret? It’s a stupid sexist (and urbanist) sentence.

That’s not what sexism means. Sexis@m is the systemic devaluation of one gender over(or rather under) the other.

And the statistics don’t lie, homie: It’s crazy how many women were sexually assaulted by men.