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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I saw a man there once. Same thing happened.

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