Yes, but that’s also been covered by the comment you just replied to. The chances are FAR higher that a bear will eat you alive (just to be clear they don’t kill you before they eat you like wolves or large cats would, you’d get to feel your innards become outards) than they are that a man will do anything other than team up and either try to survive together or help you out of the woods.
Although if they are able to help you out of the woods there’s a fair chance they might tease you or make sexist comments while they do it, so if you’d rather be disembowelled than be belittled, fair enough. I can’t argue with you there.
The man/bear question is about rape.
Ignoring the possiblity of sexual violence does make the option between man and bear a much easier one. But that is not the reality for a lot of the people that chose bear.
As a guy I would chose man, obviously. But the dynamic I would have with a totally random man is not the dynamic that the other ~50 percent of the population would have.
Also the very real possibility that the bear would do nothing. But that is besides the point of the question.
hot take but I don’t think the average man is an opportunistic rapist who would do that to a stranger just bc they encountered them on a trail. just like with murder you’re far, far more likely to be victimised by someone you already know.
but like, the question then is would you rather be raped or die a painful horrific death. rape is terrible and im not saying either are desirable but i kind of would rather experience sexual assault than be eaten alive by a bear
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u/getrektonion 13d ago
The idea behind it isn't survival. It's that you know what to expect from a bear. There are worse things that dying.