Yeah, well your wife is exactly why women are choosing the bear.
Yeah except CNN and a bunch of other outlets will only pick it up if it's shaming the man.
This. Would really depend on type of bear.
If the internet's taught me one thing...
I guess I’m not as dialed into this hypothetical choice as you are. I thought the premise of the question posed to women was if they were in the forest, are they more scared to encounter a man or a bear. It’s a no brainer to me, regardless of the reality women have suffered sexual violence. Putting myself in their situation, I’d choose 100 times out of 100 getting raped rather than getting mauled or eaten by a bear.
She wasn’t describing a proposed experiment, you know. She was describing a reality many women have faced.
Yeah, I approach this like you; purely from a logical standpoint. The average man/woman could ride the elevator every day alone with a woman/man, and never have their lives in danger. Sure, there’s a chance that a genuinely evil person gets in that elevator and commits murder. But, the average person in that scenario is dying of old age before they die at the hands of a man.
So I went back and read the article, where “an interviewer asks eight women on the street whether they’d rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear.” Stuck implies one is far away from safety without escape, but it doesn’t mean that the woman is being actively hunted by the man or bear, or that the man is evil. So assuming those facts, if that’s me, I’m playing the odds with a dude, as the vast majority of men are not rapists or serial killers.
Have you ever been approached by someone who outweighed you by 50 plus pounds and had twice the strength as you that wanted to use that advantage to either force you or coerce you into a sexual act you wanted nothing to do with? Probably not. I'd be willing to bet a huge percentage of women have been in that situation. Plenty of wolves in sheep's clothing out there.
I guess the one thing I would point out is that there are probably a relatively few number of bad actors out there committing most of the bad acts. So I do not doubt all kinds of bad things have happened to let's say 25% of women, but I do not believe it is 25% of men doing them. Rather, I would guess it is like 1% to 5% of men who are repeat offenders. So your odds of meeting a bad actor in the woods is probably relatively low, even though a much larger percentage of women have experienced bad acts.
I do know multiple friends (women) that have discussed stuff like this happening to them. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's more women I know that have had stuff similar to this happen to them that have never told anyone about it.
nah man, let the straight CIS white men argue that the probability is low and they should be happy they're still alive afterward.
or maybe you haven't been a woman that has victimized by a male. I working at the union in college, you would be surprised by what men can do. The question is not literal.
These kind of comments have never made any sense.
Yeah and that really sucks. A few years ago they had a thing going around Facebook asking women when they were first sexually harassed. It broke my heart to hear story after story of people I know talking about being harassed by teachers, brothers friends, uncles, and on and on when they were in 5th or 6th grade. They were forced to grow in to understanding much faster and much more harshly than I did.
