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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

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Why wouldn’t a reasonable person pick the bear?

    Because you’re comparing a wild animal that can easily kill you with a single swipe, with a random normal person?

    Plenty of people have just ordinary, totally safe experiences with bears in their normal lives.

    I can, with 10,000,000,000% certainty tell you that way more people have vastly more ordinary, totally safe experiences with random men in their normal lives than with bears.

    • Because you’re comparing a wild animal that can easily kill you with a single swipe, with a random normal person?

      Can easily kill is different than likely to. Plus, the same is true of any human, but they’re also much more likely to have outcomes far worse than quickly being just being killed. Its a random person in the woods, not just a *normal *person (whatever “normal” is supposed to mean). But honestly, I don’t think I’d put it past many “normal” humans (men and women) to commit at least minor SV in the “right” circumstances.

      I can, with 10,000,000,000% certainty tell you that way more people have vastly more ordinary, totally safe experiences with random men in their normal lives than with bears.

      Sure, but I’m just as certain that women have far more experiences with SV from humans than any violence from bears. Even if they’re actual survivors of bear attacks, they’re likely the victim of far more SV by men.