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Some 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

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    I'd rather do neither but at least I know all the safety guidelines for how to not get a bear to tear my ass apart

  • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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    5 months ago

    I could fuck up any guy who tries to mess with me. A bear, not so much...

    But at least I could reason with a bear.

    • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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      5 months ago

      But at least I could reason with a bear.

      Sure you can Steve Irwin, I somehow doubt that the bear can reason with you though.

  • Landsharkgun@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Are we talking brown bears or black bears?

    Brown bears are violently territorial and will attack you for being in eyeshot.

    Black bears are basically giant racoons and will move away from people - especially if you're making loud noises and making yourself look big - because they don't want that smoke. They'll only get aggressive if you surprise them or get anywhere near their younglings.

    I'd probably take a black bear over a lot of dudes. As long as we got a good hundred feet or so of distance, Mr Bear and I ain't gonna bother each other.

    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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      5 months ago

      A colored flag means a sign giving a clue on something. It doesn't define a person, and can only be used to describe some abstract fact. You can say "getting angry when talking about the bear discourse" is a redflag, but saying "a man is a red flag" is not correct

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    I'm incredibly bear pilled ngl, as long as I stay a decent distance from it and don't do anything dumb I'll be fine, with a random guy idk what might happen, there's no certain set of rules to follow to get me out of the situation safely - I'll probably be with a perfectly normal well adjusted guy or I might be with some super transphobe who sees a small visibly trans girl alone in the woods away from all civilisation with no witnesses or some incel who sees his opportunity to get some, regardless of consent. In the bear scenario, all of the power is in my hands to just make sure that I don't do anything dumb and as long as I don't I'll be fine, in the man scenario I just have to trust the luck of the draw to give me a decent man to be alone in the woods with.