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But she's getting both. Big brown bear and insufferably smug, demonstrably useless, petty and vindictive man.
Bears generally leave you alone unless you've got food and they're hungry... at which point, just give them your food and you'll be fine. Despite millions of humans living in historical bear territory, you get only 2-5 actual attacks reported per year.
Men can't make this claim.
There have been 3 black bear attacks in the USA this year, all three fatal, and one brown bear attack, also fatal. I might also be missing some nonfatal attacks since theres not a well maintained list for those. Humans also generally leave you alone if you're not in their immediate vicinity, I think it warrants assuming you're not just on the same mountain as the bear.
Now do men.
There were 3,849 women murdered in the US in 2023. But it does not list who killed them.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1388777/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-gender/
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/04/census-details-how-often-men-kill-women
using the lower number from 2021, and the bear fatalities from the same year (6 total, only 4 were women), women are 36.5 times more likely to be killed by a man than a bear... and this is not counting rape.
Bear attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America
You didn't figure in factors like number of men total or number of bears total, and the amount of exposure to either.
You are such an asshole.
I'm not the first to say that, not the last, but you need to be reminded of that constantly.
Fuck you, fuck your bad faith arguments, and go away.
You are also the reason why people choose bears.
That was my thought reading every single one of their replies.
I don't know who this guy is, nor do I want to read their history... But I agree, they do seem like an asshole.
You didn't factor in the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
How many men existed in 2021 and how many bears existed in 2021?almost got the per capita rates
Also if you're going to include the rape statistics you gotta include them for bears too.
100% of bear sexual encounters are rape.
Is that scaling for interactions? Total amount of women who've interacted with a bear VS a man.
Murder isn't the only way to be killed. Case in point, 2,958 women's deaths are classified as "passenger vehicle accidents", plus another 2,126 pedestrian deaths.
By gender, the overwhelming majority of accident drivers are men (13,085 : 5,212). So if you're worried specifically about dying and you exclude all murderers, just getting in a car makes other male drivers vastly more dangerous than bears.
You can't control other peoples sexuality, dork.
Your mind is going to be blown when you find out about the number of man attacks this year.
Better yet, what about Mosquitos?
Probably a bad example for your case of being an obtuse asshole almost every time any subject comes up (we recognize our own.)
Mosquitos are incredibly deadly to humans but they're also like hundreds of trillions of them at any given time, so an average mosquito is still significantly less dangerous to a woman than an average man.
so... yeah just a smidge unbalanced.
The irony of saying it's bad to compare mosquitos to men based on number of each and interactions, while comparing men to bears.
I bet even male toddlers killed more people in the us
Probably. It's hard to research, though, since there's so much material about how more and more kids are dying these days
There are also a lot more of them, and surprisingly they have more access to firearms and vehicles.
"Humans also generally leave you alone if you're not in their immediate vicinity"
You should talk to a women one day.
And is 3 + 1 within the range [2, 5]? I know it's a tough question, but I have faith you can manage to figure it out!
I never said it was anything but.
Four is between two and five, though? Which is exactly what they said?
I can't tell if this a serious comment. There were only three in the entire United States? God damn dude, maybe I'll take the bear as well... And I'm a guy.
I guess you've sold us all on how much better the bear is. For the record, I encountered a bear earlier this year and yelled at it. It walked away.
How many thousands of men have you interacted with and yet are still alive? Are you seriously suggesting you could interact with thousands of bears and have the same success rate? You're manipulating the numbers in a very dishonest way.
Nobody is scared of vending machines even though they kill more people than sharks, not because sharks are safer, but because almost nobody interacts with a shark but almost everyone has many safe interactions with a vending machine.
Have you never seen any report of how many women experience some form of sexual assault from men in their life? Because that's higher than you think.
The question is satire. It's a bit stupid to make agruments against it based on statistics.
"I've never been in a conversation with someone who wasn't alive, therefore death isn't real."
Fucking baby-brain shit. Have you even developed object permanence yet?
Here's women encountering men in public spaces: https://www.tiktok.com/@specere/video/7472932570162924831
No wonder they don't want to encounter them alone in the woods.
Lol, are you literally thinking the hypothetical includes all men? They aren't going to run away from their father, brother, cousin, or the nice old man who runs the laundremat.
It's about predatory men. Men that want something from them - sex, a relationship, companionship. The way mamy men pursue this is often very sketchy and/or dangerous. Domestic violence against woman is extremely common.
It's important that people understand this. I literally just earlier this year yelled at a 500 pound bear eating trash out of a garbage can. It walked away when I did this.