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    8 months ago

    I think it’s a tiktok meme. Someone somewhere brought up the question of “say you’re stranded in the woods. Would you rather encounter a random man or a bear?” Most men say the man, obviously. Most women have to think about it. A lot of men are offended by the idea that a woman might be roughly as afraid of random men as she is random bears, and a lot of those guys are in women’s DMs making real good cases for the bear.

    I think you need to change the question a little bit to get it through thick male skulls. Instead of just a random man, imagine it’s a random man who’s likely to be at least 10% larger than you, has been taking testosterone supplements, and wants to have sex with you. The bear seems a little bit more reasonable at that point.















  • Straight number of deaths doesn’t really matter in this case. Each red shirt is statistically less likely to die than the other shirt colors. The only reason the straight number of their deaths is higher is because there are so many more of them. Like, you wouldn’t say that living in America is significantly more dangerous than living in Brazil, even though we have a higher number of deaths. It’s only higher because there are more of us