#a bear generally is not going to be unecessarily cruel to me for their own enjoyment
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Watching the whole "would you rather be in the woods with a bear or a strange man" debate go down is so funny to me as someone who has gone camping up in the mountains a good portion of my life and actually seen bears because like
They are NOT nearly as dangerous as some of the people mad about people choosing the bear are making them out to be. Even grizzlies. Generally, unless you are near their babies or they are literally starving, they'll leave you alone as long as you leave them alone. I actually did not feel that unsafe the handful of times I saw a bear in the woods because I understood that as long as I wasn't a complete fucking idiot about it, the bear wasn't going to do shit to me. Bears generally do not want to attack humans. About the only one that has been known to actually try to hunt humans is a polar bear, and you're not going to find a polar bear in a fucking forest.
#also people are missing the part about it being a STRANGE man#like by picking the bear no one is specifically targeting you#I wouldn't want to run upon a stranger in the woods#a bear is supposed to be there it's normal to find a bear in the middle of nowhere in a forest#also bears are a lot more predictable than people#a bear generally is not going to be unecessarily cruel to me for their own enjoyment#that is not something I have ever feared happening when encountering a bear#but it is something I have repeatedly feared when encountering strange dudes#because that unecessary cruelty is something I know they are capable of and faced myself#bear vs man#feminism
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