inb4_FoundTheVeganEither ya understand why most women pick the 🐻 or you are the 🐻.
HossenfefferAlmost 100% of women I know have personal experience of being sexually assaulted or harassed by a man.
0% of women I know have personal experience of being attacked by a bear.
It’s not hard to understand why women are choosing the bear.
SchadrachAlmost 100% of women I know have personal experience of being sexually assaulted or harassed by a man.
0% of women I know have personal experience of being attacked by a bear.
This has a lot more to due with frequency of exposure than anything else. Basically, a choice between a random close encounter with a bear or a random close encounter with a man is a choice between a high risk of death or a low risk of something bad happening, but most women have experienced close to zero close encounters with random bears and hundreds or thousands of close encounters with random men and so are much more likely to have had more negative experiences with random men than with random bears. And that throws off the risk assessment - people are bad at assessing high impact rare events in general, and the rarer and higher impact they are the worse people are at considering it.
But then, the whole negative reaction to this is about painting half the population as being dangerous in a way that wouldn’t be seen as acceptable for virtually any other target group. If a bunch of white folks answered that they’d rather encounter a random bear than a random black person, no one would question the virulent racism of it.
OddrunAsmundrYes, but the point is that I will encounter thousands of men in my life, and I may be assaulted by one of them yes, but there will be thousands of them who don’t.
Each individual encounter with a bear is much more likely to end in death - even though bears often won’t attack you. The proportion of encounters with bears that ends in an attack is much higher than the proportion of encounters with men.
Look I have a healthy level of caution around men, I completely get why other women choose the bear. It’s a fairly silly hypothetical, and if asked in the street I would probably answer bear with my tongue in my cheek too. However, presented with an actual bear and an actual man I will obviously choose the man because they are much less dangerous than bears.
The whole point of this “discourse” (at least as I understand it) is that men are a more realistic and present danger than bears. The fact that women choose the bear shows the level of threat that they feel on a daily basis. But trying to actually compare the genuine level of danger presented by a single encounter with a random man and a random bear, the man comes out on top. Undeniably.